Archive News 2013-2025

Last May 12 and 13, Mgr. Fouad Twal, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, presided in Fatima, the anniversary international pilgrimage, under the theme "Mother of the merciful love". In his homily he asked pilgrims to pray for peace and to work towards justice and dignity in the world, particularly in the Middle East. In large numbers, pilgrims from all parts of Portugal as well as from many different countries participated in these celebrations in honor of Our Lady of Fatima.

The “Marian Day” at the Vatican, on October 12-13 was one of the great pontifical events marked down on the calendar of celebrations of the Year of Faith. It brought to Rome hundreds of movements and institutions connoted with Marian devotion, among which the World Apostolate of Fatima was represented with a delegation of people from various countries.

The Pontifical Council for the Laity confirmed the World Apostolate of Fatima (W.A.F.) as an International Public Association of the Faithful, with a juridical personality and with its Statutes definitively approved by Decree dated October 7, 2010, Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary.  

In response to the desire of the Holy Father, the Statue of Our Lady of the Rosary of Fatima, venerated in the Little Chapel of Apparitions, is going to Rome on October 12/13 to be present at the Marian Day promoted by the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of the New Evangelization. On October 13, in the presence to the Statue, Pope Francis will make the consecration of the world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

The International Secretariat of the World Apostolate of Fatima has assumed the recitation of the Holy Rosary, on each first Thursday of the month, in the Chapel of the Apparitions in Fatima, at 18.30 pm. The Rosary is offered for the intentions of our members and, in a particular way, for the respect of human life from conception to natural death.