The Vice Chancellor of University Extension and director of the International Institute of Charity and Volunteer John Paul II Catholic University of Murcia, Antonio Alcaraz, held a meeting with the Pope Francisco, during their meeting in the Vatican with bishops Foundation Populorum Progressio and the Pontifical Council Cor Unun.
Antonio Alcaraz, who showed the Pope his willingness to collaborate as prompted by the Pontifical Council Cor Unum, presented at the meeting, led by Cardinal Robert Sarah, president of the Pontifical Council, a training plan for staff members charity in Latin America.
The project will enable the UCAM, in coordination with Cor Unum, training in a comprehensive manner, through training, people who exercise social and charitable work through the Catholic Church.
The training will start character and blended in various dioceses in Latin America, "which will serve as a starting point for a larger project that will be implemented progressively in dioceses that wish," said Antonio Alcaraz.
Volunteer UCAM
The UCAM is involved in various projects of cooperation and voluntary, based on their reason for being Catholic university.
The Campus Working Peru is one of the example of the involvement of Murcia institution.
Through this project, the University Community UCAM develops throughout their stay in the Andean country, an intense charitable work and volunteering initiatives focused on various social and development cooperation projects;
in this line, in previous years, began cooperation in socio projects in Cuba, in coordination with the Office of the Historian of Havana and institutions of the Catholic Church.
Source: UCAM