Archive News 2013-2025

From the 12^th to the 16^thof November, the International Board of Trustees of the World Apostolate of Fatima met in Fatima, for their annual meeting. The Board is composed of nine members from nine different countries, assisted by the international Secretariat. This was the first time the Board of Directors met face to face since their election last October 2022. In the meantime, several online meetings had been conducted.

The meeting was presided by President Prof. Michael Ogunu and assisted by the international Secretariat. The program also included moments of prayer, with the recitation of the daily Rosary and Mass. On the last day, there was a beautiful Mass at the Chapel of the Apparitions offered for the intentions of the World Apostolate of Fatima.

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In 1917, Our Lady came to Fatima, Portugal, as a mother, concerned for her children on earth. She asked the three little shepherds to pray the rosary every day for the conversion of sinners and to obtain peace for the world and the end of the war.

Today, this call is more urgent than ever. The world is in turmoil with wars and conflicts that cause death and destruction. We think of Ukraine, Gaza, Israel or Sudan, just to name a few. It is time to stop this wave of violence!

What can we do to promote peace? We will soon be celebrating Christmas, the birth of Christ, the Prince of Peace. Let us start with prayer. When we pray and meditate, we are building peace, in our heart, in our families and,

The4^th Regional Congress of the World Apostolate of Fatima for Africa will take place in Mbeya, Tanzania, from the 5^thto the 9^th of October 2023. This is a meeting of leaders and members of the movement from African nations that meet to discuss and plan the work in the continent.

The venue hosted by Archbishop Gervas Nyaisonga, bishop of Mbeya diocese and President of the Catholic Bishops Conference of Tanzania is to be held at the Catholic University College of Mbeya. The program of the congress, whose theme is “Preparing the Continent of Africa for the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary” includes several talks, workshops and moments of

On the 2^nd of September 2023, the national center of the World Apostolate of Fatima in the Czech Republic is inaugurating an exact replica of the Little Chapel of the apparitions of Fatima, in Koclířov.  

The ceremony of the inauguration will be preceded by a two days theological-pastoral symposium, starting on the 31^st of August, with the participation of leading personalities from the Czech Republic and from abroad. Among these, there will the Rector of the Shrine of Fatima, from Portugal.

This replica of the chapel of Fatima is meant to reinforce the bonds with the Shrine of Fatima and help the faithful of eastern and central Europe, who visit this place, to grow in their Marian devotion, namely through the Rosary and devotion to the

The World Youth Day Lisbon 2023, whose theme revolves around the biblical quote«Mary arose and went with haste» (Lk 1:39) will be marked by several Marian references and symbols, some of them visibly connected with the Apparitions of Fatima. The presence of the Statue of Our Lady of Fatima in the closing Mass with Pope Francis, in Lisbon, just confirms this.  

At the request of the local organizing Committee of WYD Lisbon 2023, the statue of Our Lady venerated in the Chapel of the Apparitions, in the Shrine of Fatima, will be on the altar of the farewell Mass, presided over by the Holy Father, on Sunday morning, August 6^th, in Lisbon. This is the 13^th time the Statue of Our Lady makes a pilgrimage outside her chapel in Fatima. The day before, Pope Francis will pray to Our Lady of Fatima, in her Shrine, with the