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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...

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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...

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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. Read...

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...