A month of inclusive listening, dialogue and action
on the road
to empowering women and securing equality for future generations.
#CaritasforWomen
Throughout the month of March 2024, Caritas Internationalis is exploring the transformative potential of women’s leadership and participation for the Confederation and for society more widely.
Equality, Encounter, Renewal: Working together for women’s leadership is a month of promotion of the work being undertaken across the Caritas Confederation to empower women, and examination of what more men and women can do, together, to open the door to women’s leadership and ensure that women can take their rightful place at the table, from the grassroots to governance levels.
The month’s actions have a particular focus on institutional commitment, partnership, collaboration and cooperation at national, regional and global levels of the Confederation and with external stakeholders
"When Women can transmit their gifts, the world finds itself more united and more peaceful."
Caritas has launched a new resource: Equality, Encounter, Renewal: A Caritas commitment to the promotion of women’s leadership and participation, based on the Holy Scriptures and Catholic Social Teaching values and principles, which explores how the Catholic Church’s teachings support the participation of women in leadership and decision making.
This resource provides a tool for Caritas, the Church and communities to creatively engage in a process of learning, listening and dialogue in order to work together for women’s leadership and participation.
Events: Equality, Encounter, Renewal
We are holding three events in which the whole Confederation can participate online to spread the good news of Caritas’s work to empower women across all seven regions
Livestreamed via the CI YouTube channel
Speakers include:
- Kirsty Robertson, Director, Caritas Australia; Vice-President, CI
- Sr Nathalie Becquart XMCJ, Under-Secretary, General Secretariat of the Synod
- Sister Helen Alford OP, President, Pontifical Academy for Social Sciences; Dean Faculty of Social Sciences Pontifical University St Thomas Aquinas
- Alistair Dutton, General Secretary, CI
- Sr Patricia Murray, ibvm, Executive Secretary International Union of Superiors General
- Cristiane Murray, Deputy Director, Holy See Press Office
- Patricia Adèle Felicitè, Director, Caritas Mauritius
- Sr Espérance Bamiryio, former Director, Catholic Health Training Institute, Wau, South Sudan
- Sr Ruperta Palacios Silva, Carmelite Missionary of Santa Teresa, Mexico; Secretary of the Afro-Mexican Pastoral in Cáritas Mexicana
Women Leaders: Towards a brighter future (Part 1) 9,30-10,30
Livestreamed via CI YouTube channel
Speakers:
- Alistair Dutton, Secretary General, CI
- Patricia Adèle Félicité, Secretary General, Caritas Mauritius
- Sr Regina Ignatia Aflah HDR, Assistant Superior General, HDR Sisters
- Karam Abi Yazbeck, Regional Coordinator, Caritas MONA
- Sr Ruperta Palacios Silva, Carmelite Missionary of Santa Teresa, Mexico; Secretary of the Afro-Mexican Pastoral in Cáritas Mexican
16.45– 18.00
Caritas Internationalis and the Permanent Observer Mission of the Holy See to the UN are pleased to be cohosting an official side event at the United Nations’ 68th Commission on the Status of Women.
This event will demonstrate the Catholic Church and the Caritas Confederation’s commitment to the empowerment of women through addressing poverty and strengthening institutions as a key way to achieving equality, enhance the localisation agenda, promote the integral development of all people, and build stronger and more sustainable societies.
Read every day a story of women from the Confederation.
