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- Ministry of Hope, Paraguay – Reaching out to Divorced couples in new relationship
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- Fortalecimiento Matrimonial – Costa Rica
- Blessing for Moms and Dads – Germany
- Basic Education Course for Parents
- Home Delivery Dialogues
- FAB – Family as Vocation – Austria
- The Matrimonial Route, Hungary
- Father Joseph Kentenich Bioethics Commission, Argentina
- Academy for Marriage and Family, Germany
- Academy for Family Pedagogy – Schönstatt auf´m Berg, Germany
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- Take Mother Home – Brazil
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- Casa del Niño “María de Nazaret”, Villa Ballester, Argentina
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- Dequeni: support education as a means to a safer and better country.
- Soya Solidarity Campaign, Argentina
- Mary’s Volunteers, Argentina
- Home of Mary – a Home for mentally handicapped children and youth in Mar del Plata, Argentina
- Maria Arafasha, Burundi
- White Moustaches – Paraguay
- Casa del Niño Padre José Kentenich – Father Joseph Kentenich Day Care Center -, Argentina
- María Ayuda, Chile
- Niño Jesús Nutrition Center, Dominican Republic
- Mercy House, An Apostolic Project from Schoenstatt for Africa’s Refugees
- IKAF –International Kentenich Academy for Leaders
- Project ENCUENTRO, Spain
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- The Valley – around the Original Shrine
- About Schoenstatt
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- Mother Thrice Admirable, Queen and Victress of Schoenstatt
- Father Joseph Kentenich – the founder
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- The message of Schoenstatt
- The Capital of Grace
- The 18th of each month – Covenant Day
- The Founder: Fr. Joseph Kentenich
- The Mother Thrice Admirable (MTA) – Schoenstatt’s picture of grace
- The Unity Cross in Schoenstatt
- Schoenstatt Heroes
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- A Movement of Education
- Historical Panorama of Schoenstatt: From the Little Chapel to the Confines of the Earth
- An International Family
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- Mount Schoenstatt
- Mount Sion and Mount Moriah
- Mount Regina,Mount Nazareth, Mount Mary
- Wayside Shrines: on the crossroads
- Virtual Retreat: Fr. Nicholas
- Fr. Kentenich short messages
- PK4U – A bust of Fr. Kentenich for the Home Shrine
Congo Tag
UGANDA, Jean de Dieu Ntisumbwa / Maria Fischer • It was a real Christmas surprise in the parish of Nakivale, the parish of the Nakivale refugee camp in Uganda. The young and enthusiastic Schoenstatt Family, founded by a refugee from Burundi, received a visit from Burundi. Father Alain Amani, a Congolese priest, arrived after the second Christmas Mass and met with about 60 Schoenstatters, some of them from the Pilgrim Mother Campaign. — Jean de Dieu Ntisumbwa was in the parish of Buhungiro for Christmas preparations, and when he returnedRead More
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO, Father Jean Marie Bisimwa Isaac • Father Jean Marie Bisimwa Isaac is the superior of the community of the Schoenstatt Fathers in Congo and the pastor of the parish of Bon Pasteur Kalundu. They are three Schoenstatt Fathers who have been working in this parish in eastern Congo for three years, taking care of the parishioners and the construction of the first Schoenstatt Shrine in this country. We asked: How is the construction of the Shrine being lived in the parish? — The Schoenstatt Fathers arrivedRead More
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO, Fr. Hermenegilde Coyitungiye • The walls are up and it is already recognizable as a Schoenstatt Shrine: In the Democratic Republic of Congo, in the diocese of Uvira (province of South Kivu), the first Schoenstatt Shrine is being built. — The Schoenstatt Movement spread from Burundi to the Democratic Republic of Congo through the Schoenstatt Fathers and students who found refuge in eastern Congo. The diocese of Uvira is the point of reference, since Bishop Jerome Gapangwa gave the official authorization for the Schoenstatt Movement thereRead More
NIGERIA, Fr. Pablo Pol / María Fischer • November 1st, the Feast of All Saints, was a very special day for the community of Schoenstatt Fathers in Nigeria. On the grounds of the future shrine in Ibeju Lekki, near Lagos, Nigeria, a wayside shrine was blessed and the foundations of the future house of the Schoenstatt Fathers were laid at this place. — Fr. Alexandre Awi, the new Superior General of the Secular Institute of the Schoenstatt Fathers, who came to Africa for the first time, presided over the celebration,Read More
WORLD CLIMATE SUMMIT, Ulrich Grauert / Maria Fischer • Tuesday 9, 2021, Swiss Interholco AG has organized a side-event in Glasgow at the World Climate Summit with the intention to demonstrate the synergy between the Congolese state and private sector (FSC-certified timber industry) aimed at effectively maintaining a forest area whose inhabitants and biodiversity are sensitive to climate change. Interholco CEO Ulrich Grauert, Schoenstatt member and Founder of IKAF (International Kentenich Academy for entrepreneurs and leaders), shares his presentation with the users of schoenstatt.org. — In the context of WorldRead More
CONGO/BURUNDI, Fr. Charles Ozioko/mf • April 11, Sunday of Mercy, was a feast for the Schoenstatt Fathers and the entire Schoenstatt Family of Burundi and Congo. Two Schoenstatt Fathers from Congo were ordained priests, and one seminarian from Burundi was ordained deacon in Mont Sion Gikungu in Bujumbura, the capital of Burundi. — In four languages – Kirundi, Kiswahili, French, and English – the community of the Schoenstatt Fathers invited to join the priestly ordination of Fr Emmanuel Kahawi, and Fr. Christian Murhabale, both from the diocese of Bukavu, Congo,Read More
BURUNDI, Maria Fischer with Material from https://www.peres-schoenstatt.org • July 18, 2020, Covenant Day, in front of the Shrine of the Schoenstatt Fathers in Switzerland. A breathtaking view of Lake Lucerne. But we are talking about Africa, because we are standing here with two Swiss Africa veterans, Father Zingg and Father Barmettler, and we share their joy at the ordination of three Schoenstatt Fathers on this day, in Burundi. And they recount to us…— The Schoenstatt Family and the pilgrims who belong to the Shrine of Mount Sion Gikungu in Bujumbura hadRead More
SOUTH AFRICA, Sarah-Leah Pimentel On 15 February, Pope Francis announced that Friday 23 February would be a day of prayer and fasting for the resolution of the conflicts in South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). — For many of us, these places are very far away and it is difficult to feel empathy for people we know nothing about. These are also places that the media often ignores. I live in South Africa but even here, the main news channels rarely report on the raging conflictsRead More
DAY OF PRAYER AND FASTING FOR PEACE • After the prayer of the Angelus, on Sunday, 4 February, Pope Francis announced that “…Faced with the tragic prolonging of conflicts in various parts of the world, I invite all the faithful to join me in a Special Day of Prayer and Fasting for Peace on 23 February, the Friday of the First week of Lent. “We will offer it in particular for the populations of the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan.” Both African countries are hit hard by civilRead More
BURUNDI, Maria Fischer with material from Diomède Mujojoma Mont Sion Gikungu• On Divine Mercy Sunday, the first Sunday after Easter, at 10:58 a.m., Longin Ntiranyibagira and Jean Marie Bisimwa Isaac moved from being deacons to becoming Fr. Longin Ntiranyibagira and Fr. Jean Marie Bisimwa Isaac, Jesus Christ’s priests, Schoenstatt Fathers, and bearers of the Schoenstatt mission for the countries in the heart of Africa. Families, pilgrims and most of all other priests arrived very early in the morning. Everyone came to visit the Mont Sion Gikungu shrine, to pray, andRead More
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