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...
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...
From left to right: Marc Biadacz, Berlin, José Luis Bazán, Brussels, Prof. Tado Jurić, Zagreb,Mrs. Claudia Gaurich, Facilitator, Prof. Thomas Eggensperger, BerlinThe first one left on the top: sister Marjolein via Zoom Rarely has the Renovabis Congress been as...
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...
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...
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...
On 28 and 29 July, Fr Zsolt Labancz, President of UCESM, came to visit the new office (since July 2020) of UCESM in Brussels. We took advantage of his coming to pay a short visit to Dom Bernardus Peeters ocso, Abbot of the Trappist Abbey of Koningshoeven near Tilburg...
Lecture by Sr. Katharina Kluitmann osf Crosshairs Lecture by Mrs. Doris Reisinger Video 1 Video...
Sr. Adrien Pekó has been a committed and concerned member of the Executive Committee of UCEM in the first years of the new millennium. In 2001, at the General Assembly in Salzburg, she was elected Councillor. Three years later, in Ljubljana, she was appointed...
We wish Mgr. Nicolai every success in his new mission....
It seems “risky” to be a major superior on the Executive Committee of UCESM: it is the second time within five years that one of its members has been ordained bishop. First, our president, Father Giovanni Peragine, was taken away to become a bishop in...
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Report about the “Ottmaringer Days” 2019
