Bukavu – DR Congo, 15 September 2017. Following a week of spiritual exercises or retreat on ‘Our spiritual growth as brothers’ for the brothers of the Kivu region in DR Congo, Superior General, Bro. René Stockman accepted the perpetual profession of eight brothers in the Cathedral of Bukavu on Friday 15 September 2017.
Rome, 12 September 2017. The Superior General of the Brothers of Charity, Bro. René Stockman, took note of the position of the Board of Directors of the Brothers of Charity Organization in Belgium regarding the application of euthanasia for non-terminal psychiatric patients.
Kigali, Rwanda. On Saturday, 2 September 2017, twenty-seven novices professed their first vows in the Congregation of the Brothers of Charity, received by Superior General Bro. René Stockman. He had led a week-long retreat for the novices prior to their profession.
Rome, August 5, 2017. The Vatican takes a clear statement in response to the euthanasia debate with the organization of the Brothers of Charity in Belgium and asks the Superior General to take further steps.
In further response to the text that was prepared to support the vision statement of the “the Brothers of Charity Group in Belgium ” support through a Christian-inspired dimension, Bro. René Stockman wishes to make the following comments.
On Friday, 19 May 2017, Halewijn, a publishing house, presented a new book by Bro. René Stockman at the Guislain Formation Centre in Ghent.
Le 13 mai 2017, à l’occasion de la commémoration du centenaire de l’apparition de Notre-Dame à Fatima, la Congrégation des Frères de la Charité a renouvelé dans le monde entier sa consécration au Cœur Immaculé de Marie.
On Saturday 13 May 2017, the new Peter Joseph Triest Psychiatric Centre was inaugurated and consecrated.
In our capacity of General Administration, we fully disapprove of the vision statement as it goes against the basic principles inherent in the charism of the Congregation.
In the presence of a large gathering, including the Governor of Lomami Province, the new construction projects and the reconstruction work in the Kintu Kimune primary school and the IPRO Kifulo vocational school were inaugurated and consecrated in Kabinda on 4 May 2017.