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Syria: Carmelite Sisters of Aleppo take in ten families after the earthquake
In Aleppo, after the recent earthquake on February the 6th, all the nuns were safe and sound. Fortunately their monastery was well built and did not suffer any structural damage. Eight nuns live in the monastery. Their house has ...
Central African Republic: Fr. Norberto OCD’s car blown up by a mine
Father Norberto Pozzi, 71, comes from the Ligurian Province. In 1980, he left for the Central African Republic, where he worked as a bricklayer-surveyor for 8 years in the Bozoum mission. After returning to Italy he became a Carmelite priest and i...
News from the Central African Republic
The Carmelite family in the Central African Republic is growing. On Friday, January 6, three young confreres (Br. Aimé, Br. Alfred and Br. Wilfrid) made their solemn profession in the hands of the Provincial, Father Saverio. The ceremony was very...
News from the Democratic Republic of the Congo
From Saturday 31st of December 2022 to Tuesday January 10th 2023, the Secretary for Missionary Cooperation, Father Jérôme Paluku, stayed in Goma, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The aim was to promote a socio-cultu...
Madagascar: Father Cesare Busecchi recieves the Cuore Amico prize
Next October 22, the Association “Cuore Amico Fraternità Onlus” (www.cuoreamico.org) of Brescia, Italy, will confer the 32nd Cuore Amico Award to Father Cesare Busec...
Senegal: 20 years of presence of the Discalced Carmelites
The Discalced Carmelites of Senegal celebrated the 20th anniversary of their presence in Senegal on Sunday, July 17, on the occasion of the annual pilgrimage of Our Lady of Mount Carmel to the Carmelite Nuns of Sébikotane. About 600 pe...
Vietnam: blessing of the first church of the Carmelites
July 13, 2022 was a day of great joy for the Discalced Carmelite Friars in Vietnam: the monastery was blessed and the altar of the first chapel of the Order in Vietnam was consecrated. From the beginning, the history of the Carmelite friars...
Burundi-Rwanda: Laudato si’ session: an experience of “everything is connected” and contemplation
From Thursday 26 to Sunday 29 of May 2022, the Community of Discalced Carmelites of Gitega hosted about fifty young people studying in secondary and university institutes in the cities of Bujumbura and Gitega. They came to live together an ...
Summary of the humanitarian activities of the Discalced Carmelites in the first month of the war in Ukraine
2022.03.24c Carta, Resume...
LA OBRA MAXIMA: DEVELOPMENT AT INTERNATIONAL LEVEL
Ever since Fr. Juan Vicente Zengotita, OCD, launched La Obra Maxima in January 1921, there have been continuing changes both in its format and content. Thanks to the collaboration of so many Discalced Carmelites, the review has become the...
SEVENTH ASSEMBLY OF CARMELITE SUPERIORS OF FRANCOPHONE AFRICA AND MADAGASCAR (Senegal, 24-28 January 2022)
The Conference of Carmelite Superiors of Francophone Africa and Madagascar held a meeting in Dakar from 24th to 28th January. Eleven representatives from 5 of the 6 Circumscriptions of our Conference – Congo, Cameroon, Cent...
Fiftieth anniversary of Carmel in Central Africa
On December 16, 1971, Fathers Nicolò Ellena, Marco Conte, Agostino Mazzocchi and Carlo Cencio arrived in Bozoum, in the parish of San Michele, to help the Capuchin friars and then succeed them. Among the Capuchins at that time was Fr. Armando Gia...
A SPACE FOR PRAYER INAUGURATED IN BENONI (SOUTH AFRICA)
Carmelite friars from the Karnataka-Goa Province have constructed a Prayer Garden in the parish of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Benoni, South Africa. The garden was blessed by Archbishop Buti Thagale of Johannesburg on the 21st of Nove...
FR. PATRIZIO SCIADINI DECORATED CAVALIER OF THE ORDER OF THE STAR OF ITALY (“Cavaliere dell’Ordine della Stella d’Italia”)
On October 7, Fr. Patrizio Sciadini, OCD, was decorated as a Cavalier of the Order of the Star of Italy. The Italian Ambassador (to Egypt) read the formula of conferring of the honour on Fr. Patrizio as follows:- “In the exercise of...
