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Alpha invited to Evangelisation event at the Vatican

October 19, 2011

“Modern man is often confused and cannot find answers to the many questions which trouble his mind in reference to the meaning of life,” (Pope Benedict XVI, Vatican’s Paul VI Audience Hall, ‘New Evangelisers for the New Evangelisation event’, October 2011)

Alpha at World Youth Day 2011, Madrid

September 8, 2011

More than a million Catholic youth from across the world attended World Youth Day in Madrid this August 2011.  On his first day in Madrid, Pope Benedict XVI called on young people to “build [their] lives upon the firm foundation which is Christ” and that the words of Jesus “must reach our hearts, take root and bloom there all our l

GAT - Ecuador

April 7, 2011

Just came at the spring's start, from Colombia, England and Mexico We landed in the city of Guayaquil on the coast of Ecuador: Liliana and her husband Rafael Gutierrez , Giancarlo Riveros (Alpha International) and me. From 23th to March 24th were in the City of Cuenca, in the mountains of Ecuador, to provide the GAT.

Alpha Training Day in Catholic parish

January 11, 2011

Alpha Training Day at Our Lady of Lourdes parish, Newent, Gloucestershire Date: Saturday 22nd January, 2011 Time:  9.45am - 3.30pm

Brand New - Introductory film to Alpha in a Catholic context

November 29, 2010

We are delighted to share with you the brand new introductory film to Alpha in a Catholic context:

Introduction to Alpha in a Catholic Context

The Alpha course is a local parish tool for evangelisation that is being used by hundreds of Catholic parishes in over 65 countries around the world. Alpha, which grew out of a local Anglican parish community, is now running in 33,000 churches of every denomination around the world.
In particular Alpha is attracting many young people who are asking the question 'Is there more to life than this?' This quest has led over 15 million people to come on an Alpha course in over 160 countries around the world.

The Alpha course has received the support of many Catholic Bishops, priests and lay people around the world who are seeking to respond to the call to a new evangelisation.

The purpose of our lives is to reveal God to men.  And only where God is seen does life truly begin.  Only when we meet the living God in Christ do we know what life is.'

Pope Benedict XVI

'Evangelising is in fact the grace and vocation to the proper Church, her deepest identity. She exists in order to evangelise.'

Pope Paul VI
Evangelii Nuntiandi

'I sense the moment has come to commit all of the Church's energies to a new evangelisation and mission to all nations. No believer in Christ, no institution of the Church can avoid this supreme duty: to proclaim Christ to all peoples.'

Pope John Paul II
Redemptoris Missio

'John Paul II encouraged us as Christians, at the beginning of the new millennium, in the face of widespread apathy and Godforsakenness
among men, not to relent in the task of the new evangelisation.
The Alpha course sees itself as committed to exactly this task.'

Walter Cardinal Kasper
President Emeritus of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity