Press

04 February

Teclessia - Cope

Luis Argüello: "In the face of secularism, Christians are called to a public commitment consistent with their faith".

04 February

Pontifical University of Santa Croce

Conclusa la VII Settimana di Studio per formatori di seminari: "Amicizia con Cristo e amore disinteressato..." | Pontifical University of Santa Croce

12 February

Religion in Freedom

With a Protestant mother and Catholic father, he chose his path as a child: today he evangelizes Congo as a priest.

February 18

Alfa y Omega Magazine

Luis Chiva: "I am hopeful that the fetus will be protected again".

February 22nd

Religion in Freedom

CARF reflection meeting on "cancelled" children and the ban on praying in front of abortion centers

24 February

Religion in Freedom

Otto, seminarian from Guatemala, a pro-life country where evangelicals now outnumber Catholics

25 February

Omnes Magazine

Lucas Calonje. Divine content in the ordinary of every day.

25 February

Religion Confidential Magazine

Jesús Poveda, on the law that penalizes praying in front of abortion centers: "We will see each other in the trenches. The street cannot be silenced".

25 February

The TV Debate

Poveda talks about canceled children: "If we are forbidden to pray in front of clinics, we will go to the trenches".

04 March

Religion in Freedom

Ukrainian seminarians, helpless from Rome at the sight of their people: "Everyone has psychological stress".

05 March

Alfa y Omega Magazine

The fight against temptations

10 March

Omnes Magazine

Bohdan and Ihor, seminarians in Rome: "We Ukrainians want to be free".

10 March

Pontifical Mission Societies

The charism of the PMS is to help Christians live a faith that is missionary and universal.

10 March

Omnes Magazine

"We cannot enclose the Christian faith in the horizon of a single culture".

March 15

Factor Nine

Why do people give up Twitter and alcoholic beverages during Lent?

16 March

Religion in Freedom

Sacred vessels" case: useful and practical for priests to celebrate in any situation

19 March

Infovaticana

Axel, seminarian: "The most important thing is to be in love with God".

March 20

Omnes Magazine

The call to conversion

27 March

Religion in Freedom

"We must hold firm to doctrine and morals without diluting anything in worldly ideas and trends."

02 April

Omnes Magazine

"Caring for those around us", an antidote to euthanasia, says Benigno Blanco

18 April

Omnes Magazine

Kenneth Orom: "Africa is the Catholic reserve of today's world" s

23 April

Religion in Freedom

Training poor seminarians to be leaders of their local Churches: Benedict's example

23 April

Catholic News Agency

"Lest any vocation be lost": support for the formation of seminarians from poor countries or countries in difficulty.

26 April

Religion Confidential

CARF Meeting: Professor Francisca Pérez-Madrid to reflect on the 300 million persecuted Christians

28 April 

Mater Mundi Magazine

"Mothers and books are very dangerous!" - Hernando Bello Rodriguez tells you why

04 May

Catholic Youth Magazine

World Day for Vocations: Two Venezuelans to be ordained deacons in Spain

04 May

Omnes Magazine

"No vocation is indifferent to us."

05 May

El Confidencial Digital

José María Calderón, director of Obras Misionales in Spain, explains some keys to discovering a vocation

09 May

Religion in Freedom

Protestant advance, ideologies, poverty...: the urgency of well-educated vocations in the Americas

09 May

Omnes Magazine

"We Catholics must have knowledge of Sacred Scripture."

10 May

Omnes Magazine

Focusing the company on people is efficient

29 May

Religion in Freedom

Mariano Fazio, auxiliary vicar of Opus Dei: "You don't have to choose between pastoral care and formation".

23 May

Religion in Liberta

CARF reflection meeting on "Naprotechnology: the ethical solution to infertility".

26 May

Mater Mundi TV

No fear of commitment and the unknown to become a good priest - Kenneth Orom

26 May

Religion Confidential

After seven failed IVF embryos, Marichu and Juan became parents thanks to Naprotechnology

31 May

Omnes Magazine

Sister Lucia Vitoria: "A more solid catechist formation is needed".

06 June

Religion in Freedom

"Rome from another perspective" with CARF: a spiritual, human and cultural pilgrimage to the Vatican

06 June

Religious Paths

"Rome from another perspective" with CARF: a spiritual, human and cultural pilgrimage to the Vatican

14 June

Angelus News

What an LA priest learned after a year in RomeWhat an LA priest learned after a year in Rome

24 June

Rome Reports

Vatican Express: Pope's health forces cancellation of his trip to Africa

27 June

Europaress

In 2021, the CARF Foundation allocated more than 5 million euros for the formation of priests, seminarians and religious.

28 June

The debate

Joaquín Paniello: "The Road to Emmaus shows God's love".

01 July

Omnes

Filippo Pellini "Nothing made me happier than to proclaim Christ".

08 July

Ecclesia

More than 800 bishops from 131 countries apply to the CARF Foundation for scholarships for their seminarians or priests.

July 11

Religion Confidential

More than 800 bishops apply to the CARF Foundation for scholarships for their seminarians or priests.

July 13

Mater Mundi TV

"Formation and the Sacraments are key to breaking with the evil one and living the faith to the full" - Lungelo Gabriel Sikhakhane

July 13

InfoCatólica

CARF Foundation helps 1,602 priests and seminarians worldwide

July 13

Aciprensa

Spanish foundation awarded scholarships to 1,600 seminarians, priests and religious in 2021

July 14

Religion in Freedom

During 2021, 1,600 seminarians and priests continued their studies thanks to CARF's support

July 14

Young Catholics

Scholarships for the formation of priests, seminarians and religious

July 15

The Mirror of the Church - COPE

'The Church Lantern' for Friday, June 15, 2022

July 16

Clergy Delegation

During 2021, 1,600 seminarians and priests continued their studies thanks to CARF's support

July 16

Religion in Freedom

The simple but profound advice of an elderly priest showed him the way to his vocation.

19 July

Aleteia

Healed miraculously and now promotes young saints on social networks

July 27th

Mediodía Cope

Luis Alberto Rosales: "With God's help and fighting, we will surely raise priestly vocations".

July 27th

Mater Mundi TV

Alexander Binsar left his girlfriend to become a priest: "The Lord calls us in an unexpected way".

July 29

Omnes

Alder, Nicaraguan seminarian: "The Pope asked us to be courageous".

August 15

Religion in Freedom

The adventure and responsibility of being a priest in a remote vicariate in the heart of Ethiopia.

August 21

Religion in Freedom

"I would sacrifice everything for my girlfriend, and for God?": this is how the call that led him to the seminary began

August 23rd

Omnes Magazine

Pilgrimage to Rome with CARF

August 30

Young Catholics

Simon, Tanzanian seminarian: from engineer to priest

August 31

Omnes Magazine

Luis Alberto Rosales: "CARF's work goes ahead because there are three saints who are very committed to it".

September 2

Religion in Freedom

Pilgrimage to Rome with CARF, from October 18 to 23: necropolis, Villa Tevere, Castel Gandolfo...

September 5

Religion in Freedom

ReligionAtLiberty Awards 2022: Reig Pla, Olaizola, Enrique Rojas, Infinity + 1, LifeTeen...

7 september

Mater Mundi

Óscar, the young pianist who left a promising career to follow God

7 september

Mater Mundi Tv

0:00 / 33:59 Oscar, the young pianist who gave up his promising career to follow God

September 20

Religion in Freedom

The fifth ReL Awards, "a recognition of the "creative minorities" of evangelization", have arrived.

September 27th

Religion in Freedom

ReL Awards ceremony this Wednesday: eleven personalities, eleven ways to evangelize

September 28

The debate

Religion in Freedom Awards honor eleven different ways of proclaiming the Gospel

September 29

Religion in Freedom

THE 5TH REL AWARDS, IN 90 SECONDS

September 29

Religion in Freedom

5th ReL Awards Ceremony: music, emotion and the example of many generous Christians

September 29

Religion in Freedom

5th ReL Awards Ceremony: music, emotion and the example of many generous Christians

September 30

Catholic Info

Bishop Reig Pla stresses the role of the witness of converts in evangelizing society

September 30

Religion in Freedom

Faces of hope: ReligionEnLibertad award winners, inspiration for all

October 1

Zenit

Spain: 5th edition of the Religion in Freedom Awards held in Spain

October 2

Religion in Freedom

CARF, ReL "Impulso Misionero" award: "We want to do good and put God in Spain and the world".

October 14

Omnes

Omnes - Carf Meeting on "Women in the Church".

16 October

Omnes

Miguel Brugarolas: "In the Gospel we do not find any invitation to lock oneself in".

October 17

Omnes

An economy with a soul. The challenge of a global crisis

October 19

Omnes

Online meeting on women in the Church: "Being Catholic 24/7 is a challenge".

October 21

Omnes

"Maybe God is calling me to be a missionary priest."

Religion in Freedom

They told his mother that the baby would die, prayed to St. Francis... and now he is studying theology in Rome.

October 26

ABC

Pope to go to Colosseum on Tuesday with leaders of other religions to pray for peace in Ukraine

October 28

Europapress

Put a face to your donation' campaign seeks help to train priests and religious in low-income countries

October 30

Religion in Freedom

Converso, seminarian and in the "land of the Virgin": seeks to be a saint and "break the power of the Evil One".

01 November

Religion Confidential

Joseph Weiler, first Jewish Ratzinger Prize winner: "Many Catholics have internalized the idea of the French Revolution that religion is something private".

04 November

Aciprensa

Spread the story of hundreds of priests and religious formed with scholarships [VIDEO].

04 November

COPE Avilés

Interview with Luis Alberto Rosales [AUDIO] [AUDIO].

04 November

THIRTEEN

Interview to LUIS NAVARRO, rector of the PUSC in ECCLESIA AL DÍA of TRECE [VIDEO].

05 November

In Religion and Freedom

Many priests risk their lives to become priests: help them with the campaign "Put a face to your donation".

November 14

ECD Digital Confidential

Foundation awards scholarships to diocesan priests, seminarians and religious from countries with scarce economic resources

November 24

ACI Press

Advent solidarity initiative launched for the formation of seminarians and priests

November 24

Archdiocese of Madrid

St. Louis des Français hosts the CARF Foundation's annual flea market to benefit the training of priests

November 25

Christian Music

He dreamed of the NBA and despised the faith: after a traditional Mass, he decided to "leave everything" for God.

November 25

Religion in Freedom

He dreamed of the NBA and despised the faith: after a traditional Mass, he decided to "leave everything" for God.

November 27th

Religion in Freedom

St. Louis de los Franceses, Madrid, hosts the CARF Market: to train priests in missions

01 December

Omnes

Lungelo: "In my country there are many conversions".

03 December

Vida Nueva Digital

To the rescue of the vocations of Swaziland, Lesotho...

20 December

Europapress

Kenyan seminarian seeks help to build a parish, hospital, school and well in his village

20 December

XXI Century

Kenyan seminarian seeks help to build a parish, hospital, school and well in his village

20 December

Young Catholics

Kenyan seminarian seeks help

20 December

The Debate

Cecil Agutu, the seminarian who wants to build a hospital, a parish and a school in Kenya

December 21

InfoCatólica

A Kenyan seminarian seeks help to build a parish that will be a focus of spiritual and social development in his region.

24 December

Religion Confidential

Kenyan seminarian seeks funds to build a parish in his village to serve more than 30,000 parishioners

26 December

Aleteia

Cecil seeks funds to create a church with hospital and school in his Kenyan village

February 7th

Religion in Freedom

A great mission in the form of a pilgrimage to Poland

February 10

Gaudium Press

A pilgrimage to Poland on the Centenary of John Paul II's birth to pray for vocations

February 14th

Mater Mundi

A pilgrimage to Poland on the Centenary of John Paul II's birth to pray for vocations

February 17th

Religion in Freedom

Christian among Muslims, now a priest

February 25, 2009

Vida Nueva

CARF Foundation organizes the presentation in Madrid of the documentary "The Footsteps of Jesus in Rome".

February 26th

Alpha and Omega

Christians believe in a person and relics reinforce that faith.

February 26th

Religion Confidential

First documentary on all the relics of the Passion of Christ presented in Rome

February 26th

Archimadrid

Rocio Fumanal offers her testimony of faith

March 21

Alpha and Omega

This is how Covd19 confinement is lived in a seminar with more than young people. 

March 21

Infocatólica

How coronavirus confinement is experienced in Bidasoa

March 23rd

Religion in Freedom

How are the 100 seminarians of Bidasoa living the confinement due to the coronavirus pandemic?

March 25

Religion in Freedom

From vices and partying to the missions: a death experience and a prayer brought him back to God

March 29

Religion in Freedom

Do you want to offer Mass for a deceased coronavirus?

March 31

Gaudium Press

From this website you can offer masses for the deceased of coronavirus

April 3

Religion in Freedom

Church approves a "Mass in time of pandemic" and how to celebrate it in Spanish is now available

April 6

Religion in Freedom

How are you going to live this Easter Week confined to your home? CARF invites you to share your experience

April 9

El Confidencial Digital

How and where to offer masses for coronavirus victims

April 10

Telecinco

 The church reinvents itself: attending mass "online" is possible every day and during Holy Week

April 13

El Confidencial Digital

A round of applause for priests

April 19

Religion in Freedom

"The coronavirus has united me to God": this seminarian and infected man explains why, from his story

April 29th

Alpha and Omega

CARF organizes a virtual open day at Bidasoa and Sede Sapientiae seminaries

April 29th

Young Catholics

CARF: That no vocation be lost

April 30

Religion in Freedom

Getting to know seminarians and their rectors online: a CARF initiative to pray more for them

May 3

Religion Confidential

Initiatives to celebrate the Day of Prayer for Vocations on May 3

May 3

Ecclesia Magazine

CARF Campaign: No vocation is lost

May 4

Alpha and Omega

José Miguel, the Chinese seminarian who survived the one-child policy

May 15

Religion in Freedom

Missionary on the edge of the impossible: Rocío, a nun whose charism is to reach the most inhospitable places

May 22

Religion in Freedom

Ordained priest in confinement: an Adoration in Madrid and a trip to Haiti marked his vocation

May 26

Aciprensa

This is how you can help to ensure that "no vocation is lost".

May 27

Religion in Freedom

A generosity that gives Priests

June 12

Religion in Freedom

A seminarian who follows in the family footsteps: they were the first baptized and native vocations

June 19

Mater Mundi TV

"Let no vocation be lost": Testimony of Lawrence Kawagga

June 19

COPE

Church News, "Let no vocation be lost". 

June 29

Religion in Freedom

"I abandoned the saber to choose the hyssop": from Army officer to ordained priest

July 13

Aciprensa

"I abandoned the saber to choose the hyssop": from Army officer to ordained priest

July 14

Religion in Freedom

Young African seminarians to European priests: "Jesus did not live in political correctness".

July 15

Mater Mundi TV

Our Lady interceded for his healing and now he will be a priest in Cameroon.

July 17

Religion in Freedom

Why do so many seminarians study in Rome? What do they receive? The rector of Holy Cross answers

July 20

Religion in Freedom

DEW: FAITH RESPONSE TO A SERIOUS ACCIDENT

August 5

Religion in Freedom

He grew up in the suburbs and God rescued him from "dangerous paths" by leading him to religious life. 

August 31

Religion in Freedom

From a non-practicing family, Mass bored him... but now he is preparing himself for the priesthood.

September 15

Religion in Freedom

Growing sects in an area where the Church is not yet established: Father Mangué's great challenge

September 28

Religion in Freedom

Dispersion, sects, lack of priests...: why Catholic radio stations are essential in Africa

October 6

COPE

Mario Iceta and Carlos Escribano, new archbishops of Burgos and Saragossa

October 27th

Religion in Freedom

Petroleum engineering professor left everything, much to his family's annoyance, to go to seminary

November 10

Religion Confidential

Luis de Moya, a great defender of life, dies, a quadriplegic priest

November 19

Mater Mundi TV

From petroleum engineering professor in Venezuela to a seminarian

November 20

Religion in Freedom

The value of family is something Europe can learn from India": Indian seminarian in Spain

November 29th

Religion in Freedom

Why help in the formation of seminarians and priests? A widow recounts her experience

December 3

Religion in Freedom

From the ranch to "guiding souls": a road running away from God full of money and parties... until a retreat.

December 12, 2009

Religion in Freedom

Twins in life and in religious vocation: their family left everything and grew up as missionaries

December 16, 2009

Missionaries of Jesus

My story as a Missionary and future social communicator

February 1

New Life

"We the faithful of Japan ask for the support of the whole Church." 

February 7th

Religion in Freedom

A Nicaraguan priest: "I have seen things I never thought I would see in my life".

February 8

Mater Mundi

Nicaraguan priest fighting for peace in his country

March 1

Vida Nueva

Edgardo Calvente: "it is a time when praying for priests is very necessary". 

March 3

Religion in Freedom

Edgardo Calvente: "it is a time when praying for priests is very necessary". 

March 11

Religion in Freedom

More repression and hunger, more churches full for mass: the case of Venezuela and the refuge of faith

March 14

Aleteia

We lost everything to keep our faith

March 19

Religion in Freedom

A pilgrimage to see Our Lady and to pray for priests

March 20

Alpha and Omega

Reena Tolmik, the convert fighting for the Church not to be invisible in Estonia  

March 22

COPE

Reena Tolmik: converted to Catholicism and now fights for invisible Christians in Estonia

March 22

Religion in Freedom

No one believed in her family; she wanted to be baptized at the age of 10; the only young girl with faith, then Catholic 

April 16

Religion in Freedom

"Only in the chapel I felt a very strong attraction to the altar": he will be a priest and journalist

April 16

Aleteia

A priest in the midst of Colombia's armed conflict

April 17

Aciprensa

He was a young Japanese atheist, but his interest in history led him on the road to the priesthood.

April 24

Vida Nueva

Martyrs and clandestine seminaries: the reality of persecuted Christians in China

April 25

Religion in Freedom

When she was young, she turned away from God, but she came back thanks to an illness: she left her boyfriend and job to become a nun 

May 1

Rome Reports

Christians in Sri Lanka

May 1

Vida Nueva

"There is an invisible hand behind the Sri Lankan bombings."

May 7

Religion in Freedom

Priests according to the Heart of Christ: Pilgrimage to Cerro de los Ángeles

May 8

Gaudium Press

Pilgrimage to Cerro de los Angeles prepared to pray for priests

May 11

Aleteia

Sri Lanka: "Many Muslims ask us to forgive them".

May 11

Religion in Freedom

God called him to priesthood among Muslims in Arabia

May 22

Thirteen TV

Persecuted but not forgotten: Interview with priest Jeus Jardin de Dabao

May 23rd

Torreciudad.org

We are visited by a group from the Centro Académico Romano Fundación

May 24

Young Catholics

Justin, Nigerian priest

May 29

Alpha and Omega

Mihai Sona, Romanian seminarian: "My country suffered a lot under the iron curtain of communism".

May 30

Cynthia's Blog

Pilgrims 

June 2

Cynthia's Blog

Pilgrimage to Torreciudad, home of Mary

June 12

Aleteia

"My family was the first seminary for me."

June 13

Mater Mundi

P. Jeus, from Flipinas: He was a nurse and of non-practicing parents.

June 14

Vida Nueva

The young Lutheran woman who came to know the Catholic faith at Taizé

June 17

Religion in Freedom

As a child, he cycled 60 kilometers to become a priest.

July 2

Religion in Freedom

He was a child prodigy at the piano and this gift brought him closer to God.

July 16

Aleteia

Friar Salvador: "Coming to the Holy Land is for every Christian a commitment of faith". 

July 18

Holy Land Foundation

Friar Salvador: "Coming to the Holy Land is a commitment of faith".

July 18

Religion in Freedom

Leaping hurdles to the priesthood

July 19

Religion in Freedom

Friar Salvador: "Coming to the Holy Land".

July 21

Radio Maria

Interview with Mgr. Anthony Muheria, Archbishop of Nyery

July 23rd

Alpha and Omega

The Brazilian priest in Madrid

August 5

Religion in Freedom

I love being a Catholic priest

August 12

Aleteia

"My family is the rock and the foundation of my priestly vocation."

August 12

Religion in Freedom

Justin, priest from Nigeria

August 12

Alpha and Omega

"We want people traveling to the Holy Land to encounter the fifth Gospel."

August 12

COPE

"Here I am for whatever God wants. Rocío Fumanal"

August 22nd

Aciprensa

Priest travels 400 kilometers to help Brazilian migrants to keep their faith 

August 27th

Vida Nueva

Friar Salvador: "The Christians of the Holy Land seek happiness". 

August 29th

COPE

Christian's story: from Protestant to Catholic seminarian

August 31

Alpha and Omega

Rocío Fumanal: losing, recovering and overflowing faith after becoming paraplegic

September 2

COPE

Rocio, the young woman who became a paraplegic and converted her hospital companion 

September 13

EWTN News

Interview with Fr. José Ruy, who studies in Navarra and attends to the Brazilian community in Madrid.

September 14, 2009

Religion in Freedom

P. Thaddeus, orphaned by the AIDS pandemic in Uganda

September 14, 2009

COPE

P. Thaddeus, orphaned by the AIDS pandemic in Uganda

September 16

Religion Confidential

Fr. Aleksander Burgos promotes the first Fatima Shrine in Russia

September 16

Aleteia

"I feel a force within me that drives me to be a priest."

September 17

Religion in Freedom

Father Thaddeus' return to Uganda

September 19

Mater Mundi

Creation of the first Fatima shrine in Russia promoted

September 23rd

Aciprensa

Construction of a shrine to Our Lady of Fatima in the heart of Russia is encouraged 

September 24

COPE

Fr. Alejandro Burgos works in St. Petersburg to build the Fatima Shrine 

September 26

Vida Nueva

A Fatima shrine in Russia? 

September 30

Religion in Freedom

On a pilgrimage, Nicholas met Mary who "ordered" his life and guided him to the priesthood. 

October 2

Christian World

A parenthesis in the battle. Seminarians of Bidasoa

October 10

Alpha and Omega

A Fatima shrine in Russia to pray together with the Orthodox 

October 11

Religion in Freedom

A shrine to Our Lady of Fatima in the heart of Russia? 

October 15

Aleteia

Holy See approves construction of the first Fatima Shrine in Russia

October 17

Religion in Freedom

"I dream of telling people what is important, the image of God." 

October 30

El País

Erick Alvarado, the priest who sheltered a hundred students in Managua

November 9

Religion in Freedom

Theology of the Body sealed his conversion 

November 13

Vatican News

José Horacio Gómez, alumnus of the University of Navarra, new president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops 

November 15

Aleteia

Petro, a seminarian from Tanzania, where the Church is very young

November 20

Religion Confidential

Islam expert: "Muslims become stronger when they see a divided Church". 

November 21

Religion in Freedom

"If Muslims see that in Europe faith doesn't matter to us, they will bring their own." 

November 21

Alpha and Omega

What can a Muslim learn from a Catholic and a Catholic learn from a Muslim? 

November 28

Vida Nueva

Onésimo Díaz, professor at the University of Navarra: "I hope Pope Francis writes an encyclical on women".  

December 9

Religion in Freedom

He experienced a spiritual dryness, but in a convent of nuns he saw his vocation. 

December 17th

Vida Nueva

Is the development of Islam a "Fake News"?  

December 18

Aleteia

Daniela, a love story 

December 23rd

Religion in Freedom

From a broken family and partying to nights before the Blessed Sacrament 

December 28th

Mater Mundi TV

Integral formation of young people with a vocation

December 17th

Aciprensa

Do you want to help a priest? this campaign explains how to

December 11, 2009

Religion in Freedom

I pray for you", launch prayer campaign for priests to help them in their arduous mission

December 05

Religion in Freedom

Is euthanasia freedom? Pressure will mean that the most "vulnerable" will have to justify why to live

Vida Nueva Magazine

Betting on the shepherds who will build the future