Draft:Pan-European Forum of Confraternities

Pan-European Forum of Confraternities
Begins2020
Inaugurated2020
Next eventCzestochowa (Poland) 27-28 April 2024
Organised byCatholic Church
Websitewww.confraternitas.eu

The Pan-European Forum of Confraternities (originally, in Italian, Forum Paneuropeo delle Confraternite) is a religious event created in 2020 on the initiative of the Confraternity of St. Charles Borromeo in Lugano (Switzerland) and the Confederazione delle Confraternite delle Diocesi d'Italia, with the approval of the Holy See, and which brings together the catholic confraternities of Europe[1]

Lasting two or three days, the Forum promotes events such as conferences and religious celebrations, under the patronage of the Dicastery for Evangelization and the Council of Episcopal Conferences of Europe.

Mission

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The Pan-European Forum of Confraternities an initiative that aims to bring together European Catholic Confraternities in a forum to find answers on the current missions of these organizations in the European context.

The Confraternities unite millions of believers across Europe. According to the organizers, these institutions can also be vehicles and instruments of apostolate and evangelization, in order to preserve Christian values in society. ]

One of the current objectives of the Forum is to establish a transnational federation in Europe that can bring together the Confraternities of the continent, to facilitate their internal management and establish a form of action for a New Evangelization. ]

In 2023 the forum took place in the Real Edifício of Mafra, in Portugal, declared Heritage of the Humanity by the Unesco on 7 July 2019.[2][3] . In 2024 it will take place in Czestochowa (Poland) on 27-28 April

Events

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Date Headquarters Lemma
I 2020, 15-16 February Lugano

Switzerland Switzerland

Erit tanquam lignum plantatum secus decursus aquarum et folium eius non defluet.
#Ii 2021, 23-24 September Málaga

Spain   Spain

Et ecce turba magna, quam dinumerare nemo poterat.
#Iii 2022, 1-2 October Nice

   France

Transibam ad domum Dei in voce exultationis et confessionis multitudinis festa celebrantis.
#Iv 2023, 16-17 September Mafra

   Portugal

Si Deus pro nobis, quis contra nos?
V 2024, 27-28 April Czestochowa

Poland[4]

In silentio et in spe erit fortitudo vestra
I saw 2025 Rome

Italy[4]

References

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  1. ^ "WWW.CONFRATERNITAS.EU".
  2. ^ "Six cultural sites added to UNESCO's World Heritage List". UNESCO. 7 July 2019.
  3. ^ Jornal de Mafra, ed. (26 June 2023). "Ministro da Cultura e Arcebispo Ivo Scapolo na apresentação do programa da coroação canónica da imagem da Senhora da Soledade". Retrieved 26 June 2023..
  4. ^ a b "In memoriam Monseigneur Bernard Barsi". www.penitents-confrerie.org. 28 June 2023.