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“He filled the void I felt in my heart”

17 May 2018

Acamps for me was a very nice experience. Besides being in another environment and having a conversation with different people it made me know God in a way that I had never known before. It made me feel his love and that he was calling me to be happy and give me the tranquility that […]

“The care of the Blessed Virgin Mary”

22 April 2018

During the Acamps, I had moments that have been fundamental to my life: a strong experience with the care of the Blessed Virgin Mary, where I asked her to teach me how to love Jesus as she loved Him. At that moment I felt like a child welcomed in the arms of the Blessed Mother, […]

“He was there in the most difficult moment of my life”

20 April 2018

God brought me to Acamps to heal a wound that I had tried to cover with a thousand things. During a time of worship at the Acamps, a missionary prayed for me and when I closed my eyes, God showed me an image. I could see that He was there in the most difficult moment […]

“My free life started there”

19 April 2018

I grew up in a family where faith never used to be a priority. When I was younger I had a lot of misunderstandings with them because I couldn’t find my way. Then I started to behave like other teenagers – I started smoking, drinking and dating too. Moreover,I was addicted to relationships and I […]

Iceland knows the secret to stopping teen substance abuse

2 February 2017

In the past 20 years, teen alcohol and drug abuse plummeted among Icelandic youth… but why? In the past 20 years, Iceland’s rates of teen drinking, smoking, and drug use rates have drastically plummeted. Mosaic Science reports that in 1998, the percentage of 14- to 16-year-olds who reported being drunk in the previous month was 42 percent […]

In the Park of the dancing waters, Warsaw became capital of friendship and hope

22 July 2016

It was nine o’clock in the morning in Warsaw when the group of young people from Israel coming with Shalom Community met a beautiful park with fountains of waters. The scenery inspired a song of praise to God and the joy involved them until one start to dance. Another group nearby saw them and left […]

Pope marks World Youth Day in Angelus address

21 March 2016

At the conclusion of the Solemn Mass for Palm Sunday, Pope Francis led the faithful in the recitation of the Angelus. In brief remarks ahead of the Marian prayer, the Holy Father greeted all those taking part in the ceremony, including those watching and listening by means of television, radio, or other means of communication. […]

Letter to a young girl on the privilege of being a woman

4 January 2015

My dear young friend, I know that young girls like secrets, and I am going to share one with you. God has chosen your sex for you; He made you to be a girl. You know that girls today are often told by feminists that the Church is “sexist” and has “discriminated” against them from […]

General Audience: Pope prays for China earthquake victims and Middle East peace

6 August 2014

In the first General Audience since his summer break Pope Francis resumed his Catechesis on the Church and the People of God, but his mind was also on the tensions and recent conflict in the Middle East and an earthquake in China which last Sunday left hundreds dead and over two thousand injured. Expressing his […]

Galaxies come to the Vatican

28 June 2014

Galaxies, collections of billions of stars in beautiful spirals or elegant elliptical clouds, were once called “island universes” because they seemed so distant that they couldn’t possibly impinge on us. But the study of galaxies, near and far, young and old, has touched the Vatican this past month. It is the topic of the Vatican […]

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