"The whole world is our homeland"
Bishop Javier Echevarría, Prelate of Opus Dei, encourages university students from all over the world attending the 2016 UNIV Congress in Rome during Holy Week to strive to stay close to Christ each day and to share their faith with those around them, and to pray especially for the Pope.
Prelate Meets with UNIV Students
Brief extract from the Prelate's get-togethers with UNIV students during Holy Week in Rome.
UNIV's Gift to the Pope
The students taking part in UNIV Forum 2015 gave Pope Francis a painting of the Holy Family's flight into Egypt, to show their solidarity with the Christians suffering persecution in various parts of the world.
“Be faithful, be an apostle,” John Paul II told me
Alejandra Vanney is a lawyer who in the 90s moved from Argentina to Poland to help begin the apostolic work of Opus Dei there. Her work at the University of Warsaw gave her the opportunity to travel to Rome to take part in several encounters with Pope John Paul II.
"Holy Father, we bring you letters from the elderly and orphans"
After the general audience on April 16, a group of university students from UNIV presented Pope Francis with hundreds of letters written by elderly people and orphans from all over the world.