Opus Dei

Isabel Covarrubias, a teacher from Santiago, Chile, is spending this semester helping out at Kimlea Technical Training Centre in Kenya.

Near Nairobi, Kenya, Kimlea began in 1989 under the encouragement of Bishop Alvaro del Portillo. To date about 12,000 women have benefited, most of them young girls working on the tea and coffee plantations.

The Prelate invites us to struggle to win out in all the battles of the interior life, in order to ensure that we win the "last battle."

From July 28 to August 3, as part of his pastoral trip to 6 countries in Central America, Bishop Echevarria visited Nicaragua and Costa Rica and met with thousands of people.

It is now possible to receive the latest news and information about the beatification of Alvaro del Portillo through WhatsApp.

Bishop Alvaro recalls John Paul II’s hospital stay after the assassination attempt in 1981, and says that illness is a caress from God.

Bishop del Portillo explains to a young deaf woman that sickness is an opportunity to have a deeper interior life.

"Doing apostolate is a question of love" assures Bishop del Portillo in a get-together with Kenian families.

In July 1974, Saint Josemaría was in Peru, where he had several informal meetings and get-togethers with people who worked the land there.

Why do many people visit Africa and then want to stay there? Alvaro del Portillo answers in this short video.