Bishop Lacunza mediates between the Government and the natives in order to resolve the conflict and avoid deaths
Last February 5 a person died and 46 others have been wounded on account of the encounters between the police and the natives, in a nearby mission of the Augustinian Recollects in Boca del Toro. The conflict between the Government and the ethnics Ngäbe Buglé, is due to the fact that the latter demand legal guarantee that in their…
The “St. Monica’s Home” project has been working to restore the human dignity of 41 minors who have been sexually abused.
41 lives restored. After two years of painstaking work and commitment the people who run the Project, “St Monica Home”, have managed to set up houses of refuge for children and adolescents, victims of sexual violence who had previously lived in an atmosphere overcast by poverty and a disregard for their basic rights.
Fifty Augustinian Recollects meet in Rio de Janeiro for Vocation Renewal and Campaign
For almost a week, from January 16 to January 20, fifty-one (51) Augustinian Recollect religious came to occupy The Sitio Santo Agostinho. El Sitio is a farm estate located at the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro constructed primarily for retreats, live-in conferences, and gatherings.
The City of Rio de Janeiro hosted the Augustinian recollects first encounter for the promotion of vocations.
The Order of the Augustinian Recollects has reunited in Brazil about thirty religious in their, “first encounter for the vocational promoters” that was held from the 16th to the 20th of January. The Prior general initiated this event, which aimed to create in all religious a “vocational culture” and to motivate them to…
Lecture on Augustinian Education and “the challenges and possibilities of new technologies”
The XIX Lecture on Augustinian Education organized by the FAE (Federation of Augustinians in Spain) discussed the risks and possibilities offered by the new technologies in the school. Some five hundred teachers who work in Augustinian schools were gathered for this conference. Jose Ramon Perez, the vicar general of the Order of Augustinian…
Granada dedicates a street to Father Marcelino Álvarez
Father Marcelino Álvares, who was the director of Colegio Santo Tomás de Villanueva in Granada (Spain) and whose work as promoter of sports has been publicly recognized, has been given that honor of having a street named after him, granted by the Municipal Council of La Alhambra.
