L'Arche Internationale
L'Arche Haiti - Six Months After the Earthquake
As many newspapers highlighted on July 12th, the six-month anniversary of the devastating earthquake, efforts to organize the reconstruction of the country are progressing very slowly and international aid organizations are overwhelmed. Many people are still completely destitute. More than 1.6 million disaster victims live in one of the 1,300 refugee camps. Uncounted numbers live in the street. Read...
The International Federation Council
The Federation Council will meet in Bologna, Italy from 17-21 March on the theme: “preparing our future.” Read...
The moon in the sky is winking …
Latest News from L'Arche in Haiti - Thursday, January 21 Read...
Mourning and Solidarity at L’Arche Haiti
Message from Gabrielle Beaulieu, Quebec Regional Coordinator
(19.01.2010)
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Update on situation of L'Arche in Haiti
Communiqué from Jean-Christophe Pascal, L'Arche International Coordinator (Monday 18 January) Read...
A new issue of the Letters of L'Arche
Do you ever wonder about the very words we use to talk about people with a disability in L'Arche? Read...
Jean Vanier on BBC Radio 4 on Palm Sunday
For Palm Sunday, Mark Tully from BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) Radio 4 explores the deeper spiritual meaning of hospitality, with Jean Vanier. Jean is interviewed in the programme “Something Understood”, by Sir Mark Tully. It will broadcast on Palm Sunday, 4 April. Read...
Conference of Jean Vanier at UNESCO
On Wednesday 11 February, the French Christian Office for People with a Disability (OCH) organized Jean Vanier's anual conference at UNESCO in Paris. This year, the L’Arche founder spoke about guilt, “that feeling heavy as lead”. Read...
Jean Vanier spoke at the Duke Center for Reconciliation
Jean Vanier's conference was part of the Center's annual Teaching Communities Program, bringing together himself and Stanley Hauerwas. Read...
Briefing on the importance of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
‘Ratify Now’ is an American coalition of disability rights and civil rights activists working to bring about worldwide ratification and implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). On June 3 they hold a briefing in Capitol Hill on the importance of the UN Convention. Read...
Job offer
L’Arche International is recruiting a Communications Director. Read...
International conference on the UN Convention in Rome - February 14th and 15th
The conference aims to facilitate the implementation of the UN Convention by the members of the European Union. Read...
International day of disabled persons - 3 December
Since 1992 the UNO wants to focus the world’s attention upon the problems of disabled persons by celebrating the International day of disabled persons. Read...
Book review
"Many of the images in "Our Life Together" are disturbing yet, in every grim description of painful misfortune, Vanier wants us to see a divine light." Charles Lewis, a Canadian journalist, published a book review of Jean Vanier's memoir in letters on the occasion of Vanier\'s visit to Canada at the beginning of November. Read...
Inaugural Conference of the European Society for Theology and Disability
When was the last time you participated in an academic conference on theology and disability in late August that was organized as a "summer camp" and that made you stay as the guest of a farm where people with developmental disabilities live and work? Never happened before? Well, here is your first time opportunity! Read...
Chris Scott's Newsletter
Dear Friends,
It has been a long time since I last sent out a newsletter, so I shall take this opportunity to wish you all a Happy New Year.
In November I celebrated my 38th birthday and the community gave me a prayer book. It is a photograph album into which I can put photographs of people within L’Arche for whom I am asked to pray or choose to pray. The first four photos were of the four communities here in India as we had all taken group photos in order to make a collage for Jean Vanier when he visited in November. Later L’Arche Sydney sent me a photo of Margaret who has been unwell and so I pray for her daily.
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Welcome to our new website!
This is a website for those who would like to inform themselves about L'Arche. But it is also a website for the many members of our communities who would like to keep in touch with the international reality of the federation. Read...