On 9 September 2017, the members of KSMR in Malta have elected a new Council: the new President is the Prior Provincial of the Maltese Augustine Province, Fr. Ray Francalanza osa, the new Vice-President is Sr. Rachel Frendo osa. Sr. Mary Anne Sultana dsh is still...
On September 7, 2017, in Lushnjë (Albania), the Archbishop of Tiranë-Durrës George Anthony Frendo op has conferred the episcopal consecration to the President of UCESM since March 2012, Father Giovanni Peragine crsp. Bishop Giovanni Peragine is Apostolic Administrator...
At the invitation of Fr. Nikolay Dubinin ofm conv, President of the Russian Religious Conference CORSUM and councillor at the Executive Committee, the EC-members as well as Sr. Marjolein Bruinen op, Secretary General, and her assistant met in Moscow for the second...
On Saturday 17 June 2017, the Board of COREB (Conference of women and men religious in Belgium) elected Sr. Marie-Sophie d’Oultremont, Provincial of the Religious of the Assumption, President of COREB for a term of two years. Fr. Benoît Carniaux o.praem., Abbot of Our...
On June 15, 2017, Pope Francis appointed Father Giovanni Peragine crsp, missionary and priest at the Saint Nicolas Church of Milot in the Archdiocese of Tirana-Durres (Albania), as Apostolic Administrator of Southern Albania, elevating him at the same time to the...
At the General Assembly of the 8th June, the KNR has elected a new Board. After eight years at the leadership of KNR, Brother Cees van Dam csa said farewell and gave the gavel over to Abbot Bernardus Peeters of the Trappist Abbey of Koningshoeven. Besides a new...
Two of the largest existing religious membership organisations, the Irish Missionary Union (IMU) and the Conference of Religious of Ireland (CORI), have amalgamated to become the Association of Missionaries and Religious of Ireland (AMRI). This move is in response to...
Austria: elections with the two Conferences The Major Superiors of the Religious Orders of Women of Austria (VFÖ) unanimously re-elected Sr.Dr. Beatrix Mayrhofer, Provincial of the School Sisters of Notre-Dame, as their President. Sr. Franziska Bruckner has been...
Netherlands: new leadership in Thorn On February 12, the general chapter of the Congregation of the Dominican Sisters of Bethany, gathered in Thorn (Netherlands), elected a new general team for the term of office 2017-2023. The new members are: Sr. Katharina Magdalena...
The Piarists call the young religious throughout the world to participate in an initiative that wants to be universal: its purpose is to live a CONTINUOUS PRAYER of youth in all the world, where the groups of youth of any institution, in the moment when they wish to...
On November 17, 2016, Mgr. George FRENDO op, member of the UCESM-Executive Committee as a councillor between 2001 and 2006 and since then Auxiliary Bishop of Tirana-Durrës, has been appointed Metropolitan Archbishop of Tirana-Durrës (Albania). We very warmly...
The Secretary General of UCESM, Sr. Marjolein Bruinen, attended the 2nd General Assembly of the RENATE-network (religious in Europe against human trafficking) in Rome on November 6-12, 2016. General Assembly of RENATE in Rome
The Executive Committee meets The new Executive Committee of UCESM, elected last February in Rome, came together for the second time this year on October 9-12 in Cluj-Napoca (Romania). They could meet representatives of the two Romanian Conferences, CMSR and CSMR, as...
At its meeting of June 7-10, 2016, in Luxembourg, the Executive Committee of UCESM appointed Sr. Marjolein Bruinen op (Dominican Sister of Bethany) from the Netherlands as new Secretary General of UCESM for a four-year-mandate, in place of Sr. Josyane Cluzel (Sister...
