ASSOCIATION OF THE COMMUNITY POPE JOHN XXIII

Proyecto Sol is a project of the Comunity Pope John XXIII since 2004, when they started to translate a few church services for deaf people in the Parroquia of the Resurrection in the town of Rimini. That is how Proyecto Sol with the Care for Deaf People and their families was created in Italy.

In 2005 Proyecto Sol was installed in Santiago de Chile, where the Community is alive with its spirituality and its vocation, developing many different activities.

This way a new General Service was formed in the Community Pope John XXIII: Care for Deaf People and Their Families with the ambition to spread the message of the Gospel.

The Community of Pope John XXIII at this moment helps to develop many projects and services for the Community of deaf people and their families in Italy, Chile, Brasil and Bolivia. Not to mention the admission of deaf people in need into the various communities in every country of the world where the association is represented.

Centre of Deafs in Brazil - Community Pope John XXIII

Association of the Community Pope John XXIII

In the seventies occurred the need to help to integrate people with any kind of handicap, who were rejected and discriminated by the society. Meaning integrating these people into everyones life sharing directly their lifes with them,through which everyone gets to know handicaped people as a beatuiful creation of the Lord with all their abilities and qualities.

At this time the Community is living its vocation in 25 different countries in the world, in every continent: Italia (where the headquaters are), Albania, Australia, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Brasil, Chile, China, Croacia, Georgia, Kenya, Kosovo, India, Israel/Palestina, Moldavia, Holand, Republic of San Marino, Rumania, Rusia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Uganda, Venezuela, Zambia. There are about 1.850 members of the Community and every day over 38,000 people sit at the Community’s table. In order to carry out this commitment, 26 juridical bodies have been created and promoted worldwide.

The association is officially Recognized by the Vatican as an International Association of faithful persons as well as by the United Nations through the ECOSOC.

The different fields in which the Community is active are: Guidance of minors in host families, Justice for minors, difficult maternities, service for Teenagers, school, care for old people, daycare for adults, handicaped people, drug abuse, prisons, sects and occults, social contacts, prostitution, gypsis, people in need, peace and justice, a Journal named “Sempre”, missionary work, audio-visual, archive, theater, music.

Father Oreste Benzi, founder of the Community Pope John XXIII, lived as its head until his death, 2.11.2007.

Father Oreste Benzi learning Sign Language in a Centre of Deafs in Brazil

• LINK
• Spirituality and Mission of the Proyecto Sol
• Care of Deafs and their Families
• Pope Benedict XVI meeting in Naples
• Letter for the Recognition of the Sign Language by the Church (available in italian)
• Father Oreste Benzi
• Saint Filippo Smaldone
• Father Agustín Yanes Valer