Archive News 2013-2025

The World Apostolate of Fatima is happy to present you a unique and new statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary, named “Our Lady of the Praying Heart”.

As we prepare to celebrate the feast of the two little Shepherds of Fatima, Saint Francisco and Saint Jacinta Marto, on February 20, we would like to offer you, for the very first time, the opportunity to purchase this unique statue “Our Lady of the Praying Heart”, that has just been made available to the public.

The statue shows a supplicant woman on her knees with her heart in her hand. It represents “Our Lady of the Praying

The World Apostolate of Fatima, through its Secretariat, is inviting its members and friends to join an international online prayer meeting, on Wednesday, January 25, 2023, at 12h00 (Lisbon time) to pray the Holy Rosary for the intentions of the Apostolate and for peace in the world, particularly in Ukraine.

This event will be conducted by the Secretariat of the Apostolate, from Fatima, through the Zoom online platform (https://zoom.us). The prayer meeting is open to all members of the World Apostolate of Fatima around the world and its friends, to pray together the Rosary, following Our Lady’s request in Fatima: “Pray the Rosary every day, in order to obtain peace for the world, and the end of the war”.

The World Apostolate of Fatima held its international General Assembly in Fatima, Portugal, from October 24 to 28, 2022. The event was attended by 105 participants from 28 different countries. The group had the responsibility to elect a newinternational Board of Directors to serve for a term of five years. 

The works were conducted in a spirit of family and the program included, among other things, the presentation of national reports, conferences on the message of Fatima, workshops, moments of prayer and a pilgrimage to the sacred sites in Fatima and Lisbon. There was also time to reflect on the Synodal process of the Church, the 2023 World Youth Day in Lisbon and the Centenary of the Apparitions in Pontevedra, Spain, in year 2025.

In the morning of October 27, the delegates

A special prayer event at the Brandenburg Gate, in Berlin, Germany, with the Pilgrim Virgin Statue of Our Lady of Fatima, will take place on October 12^th, 2022, in thanksgiving for the peaceful German unification.

The Marian prayer group of Krefeld, Germany, together with the famous German writer and specialist of Fatima, Dr. Michael Hesemann, the World Apostolate of Fatima and many other prayer organizations are planning a special celebration at the Brandenburg Gate, in Berlin, Germany, on October 12^th, 2022.This prayer event is meant to be a thanksgiving to Our Lady of Fatima for the 33-year-jubilee of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the German unification, in the conviction that the German-European reunification is strongly due to the intervention of Our Lady of Fatima and the work carried out by Pope John Paul

The World Apostolate of Fatima, in compliance with its international Statutes, is holding its General Assembly from the 23^th to the 28^th of October 2022, in Fatima, Portugal. This is a major event in the life of our association, every four years, gathering the representatives of our Apostolate from various countries.  

Our last International General Assembly took place in year 2016, with more than 120 participants from 29 countries. In 2020, we had plans to meet again but with the Covid-19 outburst we were forced to change plans and postpone it. Now, despite all the uncertainties, the International Board of Trustees and the Secretariat have decided to hold the WAF General Assembly this year, having fixed the dates of October 23-28 for its realization in Domus Pacis, Fatima. 

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