Franciscans InternationalFI Workshop for Franciscan Missionaries
“It is no more just European Franciscans going to mission in Africa and Asia but now friars from all around the world are going to other countries,” observed Fr. Markus Heinze OFM at the Inter-Franciscan Formation Programme for New Missionaries in ...[more]
Franciscans Lobby for UPR on Timor Leste
On the occasion of the 12th Session of the Universal Period Review, FI invited Fr. Guilherme da Costa Barros OFM, President of the Franciscans Family in East Timor, and Sr. Henrietta Dewi Komalasari FFMI, to lobby UN Permanent Missions in Geneva on human ...[more]
Job Opportunities
Franciscans International is currently recruiting for a Regional Director for the Asia Pacific Programme in Bangkok and a Project Manager in Geneva.[more]
Franciscans International and WaterLex issue joint-publication for grassroots communities to contribute to the realisation of the human right to water
Since 28 July 2010 and the United Nations General Assembly official recognition of the Human Right to Water and Sanitation, key steps have been undertaken by water governance stakeholders to make this Human Right a reality.Among these efforts, Franciscans ...[more]
Franciscans Lobby UN Permanent Missions
In the lead-up to the Universal Periodic Review (UPR), 12th Session, in October at the United Nations (UN), Franciscans International (FI) invited three Franciscans from Uganda and Tanzania to share their countries’ human rights concerns with the ...[more]
Environmental Justice
Members of the OFM Justice, Peace and Integrity of Creation office, and FI staff members met in Rome in September, to discuss how to continue to increase awareness of environmental justice issues within the Franciscan Family. They will promote ...[more]
Invitation to Conference on Human Trafficking
Friends of Franciscans International are invited to attend a Conference on Human Trafficking with key note speaker, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Trafficking, Ms. Joy Ngozi Ezeil on 26 October 2011 in Washington D.C., USA. [more]