Archive News 2013-2025

On October 3, the World Apostolate of Fatima celebrated a worldwide international moment of prayer and Eucharistic adoration with children and youngsters. This was the 12^th edition of this event which is carried out every year on the first Friday of October. The purpose is to offer children and youngsters an opportunity for an intimate meeting with Jesus in the Eucharist and to pray for the Holy Father, the families and peace in the world.

The Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima, in Portugal joined this initiative and held in the afternoon of that day, in the Chapel of the Apparitions, a solemn Holy Hour of Eucharistic adoration and the recitation of the Rosary. The celebration was presided over by the Rector of the Fatima Shrine. The International President of the WAF was also in

Fromthe 10th to 14th of October, the World Apostolate of Fatima held its 3rd Regional African congress, in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, under the main theme: “World  Apostolate  of  Fatima:  Its mission  of  evangelization  in the  light  of  "Africae  Munus" and of the Synod on the  new  evangelization.”

More than sixty participants, coming from Tanzania, Nigeria and various regions of the Democratic Republic of Congo, assembled at the Theresianum Centre in Kinshasa for the African Regional Congress. Arriving on October 10^th, the meeting begun officially on the 11^th with Holy Mass in honour of Our Lady of the Rosary and the opening of the congress, presided by H. E. Mgr. Timothée Bodika,

The World Apostolate of Fatima in South Korea is celebrating this year the 50^th anniversary of its presence in the country. The festive occasion was solemnly marked with a celebration presided by the auxiliary bishop of Busan, Msgr.Joseph Son Sam-seok, last October 10^th.

In an atmosphere of festivity and in thanksgiving to God for the presence of the WAF in the country, hundreds of members gathered to celebrate the Holy Mass and share the fruits of 50 years of an active Apostolate of Fatima in South Korea.

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On November 6^th2014, the International Secretariat of the World Apostolate of Fatima joined the pilgrimage group from WAF-USA for Holy Mass at the Chapel of the Apparitions in Fatima. The purpose was to pray and place the signed Pledges of WAF new members at the site of the Apparitions, a practice that exists since the beginning of the organization.

At the beginning of Holy Mass, officiated by Rev. Fr.Joshua Caswell, SJC, a couple ofpeople from the pilgrimage group carried in procession various baskets full of prayer petitions brought from America and placed them at the exact spot where Our Lady appeared in 1917. Ana Reis, from the International Secretariat, also joined the procession and carried a basket with the WAF signed

The Pontifical Council for the Laity is organizing its third world congress of ecclesial movements and new communities, from November 20 to 22. Titled “The joy of the Gospel: a missionary joy…” (cf. Evangelii Gaudium, 21) the meeting is to take place at the International Pontifical College Maria Mater Ecclesiae, in Rome.

The Council for the Laity has invited members of large, officially recognized international associations and others involved “in ongoing dialogue” with the Dicastery to participate. The World Apostolate of Fatima, one of the international associations under the Council for the