Archive News 2013-2025

The World Apostolate of Fatima in the Philippines is holding a National Fatima Convention on December 10, 2024, in Quezon City, in preparation for next year’s centenary of the apparition of Our Lady of Fatima to Sister Lucia de Jesus in Pontevedra, Spain where She requested the devotion of the Five First Saturdays.

Sr. Angela de Fatima Coelho, the Vice Postulator of the Cause of Canonization for Sister Lucia and also the Superior General of the Aliança de Santa Maria, from Portugal, will be the guest of honor and speaker in the convention with the theme “The Story Continues: Know, Live, and Spread the Fatima Message”. She will explain the topics “The Immaculate Heart of Mary: A Light for Today’s World” and “The Children of Fatima: Models of Holiness”.

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On October 18, the initiative “One million children pray the Rosary” is conducted worldwide. 

The World Apostolate of Fatima and the Shrine of Fatima are partners to this.  This is a global prayer event, with children, to pray the rosary for peace, unity and justice in the world. It is promoted by the Foundation Aid to the Church in Need. You can learn more about this initiative and register in the rosary campaign here. 

Youths and children are encouraged to participate actively in the Adoration of the Most Blessed Sacrament during the 23^rd Annual Worldwide Children’s Eucharistic Holy Hour, both on the First Friday and Saturday of October and, on October 11^th which will be broadcast by EWTN network. More information here.

The month of October is a special month of devotion to Our Lady of the Rosary. It was on October 13, 1917 that Our Lady in her final apparition in Fatima, Portugal declared herself: "I am the Lady of the Rosary. Continue always to pray the Rosary every day… Do not offend the Lord our God anymore, because He is already so much offended.”

On October 7, Feast Day of Our Lady of the Rosary, the World Apostolate of Fatima (WAF) also celebrates the anniversary of its elevation to the status of an international public association of the faithful, decreed by the Holy See, in 2005. This joyful date is commemorated worldwide, through acts of prayer and other initiatives, giving thanks to the good

The IV World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly will be celebrated on Sunday, 28 July 2024.  The theme chosen by the Holy Father – “Do not cast me off in my old age” (Psalm 71:9) – is meant to call attention to the fact that, sadly, loneliness is the bitter lot in life of many elderly persons, so often the victims of the throw-away culture.

The first World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly was celebrated in 2021 and the Holy Father decreed that it be observed each year on the Sunday closest to the feast of Saints Joachim and Anne, Jesus' grandparents.

In this year of preparation for the Jubilee in 2025, which the Holy Father wishes to be devoted to prayer, the theme of the World Day is taken from Psalm 71, the plea of an