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Some impressions by Sr. Marjolein Bruinen, Secretary General of UCESM, here !  

On the afternoon of 21st November 2024, the 4th Assembly of the UCESM Vocations Apostolate Network (UCESM_VAN) took place. 22 persons attended, including a good number of "National Referents" of vocations ministry linked to 16 Conferences of Major Superiors of men and...

From 13 to 15 November, Sr Marjolein took part in the conference on ‘Protection of Minors in the Church in Europe’ in Rome. There were about 150 participants (bishops, major superiors, religious and laity) from 25 countries, as well as representatives from the Curia,...

It was an exciting 28th International Congress of Renovabis (on 10-12 September in Freising): 220 participants from 26 countries including theologians, sociologists and Church representatives. In the Asam building (and online) we listened to interesting lectures, had...

  On the afternoon of 10th June 2024, an Assembly of the UCESM Vocations Apostolate Network (UCESM_VAN) took place. A total of 29 people participated in this meeting, including a good number of "National Referents" of Vocations Ministry linked to 19 Conferences...

Fr. Anjei Yukhnevich omi, President of the Coordination Group of Consecrated Men and Women of Belarus, who took part in our General Assembly in Vranov (CZ) as a guest, was arrested a few days ago in his own country, along with another Oblate brother. The reason for...

On 29-31 October, the Executive Committee and the General Secretariat of UCESM, arriving from their different locations (Latvia, Ukraine, the Netherlands, Belgium), met with Sr. Krista Chládková, President of the Czech KVPŽŘ, and Sr. Vojtěcha Zikešová, Vice-President...

A meeting of the European Vocations Service (EVS), convened by the Council of Bishops' Conferences of Europe (CCEE), was held in Rome from 28 September to 1 October 2023. The meeting brought together around 25 people, mostly 'national vocations directors' and bishops...

The assistant of the Brussels Secretariat, Mrs Nicole Jacqué, attended as a representative of the Executive Committee and the Secretary General of UCESM. Read more (only in German) here.

From 1st till 5th September, the UCESM-President Fr. Jānis MEĻŅIKOVS sj attended the 22nd gathering of the Interconfessional Conference of Religious in Alberga (Sweden). His report can be read here.

On 29 and 30 March 2023, representatives of Conferences of Religious of European countries (Germany, Austria, France, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Belgium, Hungary, Poland, Spain, Italy, Portugal etc.) gathered in Rome at the invitation of DICLSAL to discuss the...

Some reflections by our President......  

While our president, Fr. Janis and our vice-president, Sr. Olena, were in Prague for the CCEE Continental Conference, our assistant Nicole joined them - at Sister Krista Chladková's invitation - to look into the possibilities for our upcoming 2024 General Assembly in...

On 2-6 May, the 23th General Assembly of the International Union of Superiors General took place: 520 sisters attending the plenary in person and another 200 or so through zoom, theologians and speakers voiced their support for Pope Francis' vision of a synodal Church...

After the online-celebration on 22-24 March of the first part of this year's General Assembly, the Presidents and Vice-Presidents of the national member Conferences of UCESM gathered online on 19 April to elect a new Executive Committee.The following members have been...

  From 22 to 24 March 2022, we celebrated the first part of our General Assembly.This was preceded by a great deal of work. Originally, we wanted to organize our 2022 General Assembly in St Petersburg, but as it was difficult to obtain visas when we wanted to go...