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Vatican launches #IamChurch campaign for persons with disabilities

Tagged #IamChurch, the campaign highlights testimonies of Christians living with disabilities from different parts of the world

The Vatican’s Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life announced on Monday, November 29, the launch of a campaign dedicated to persons living with disabilities.

Tagged #IamChurch, the campaign, which begins on December 6, will consist of five videos containing testimonies of Christians living with disabilities from different parts of the world.

In his message to persons with disabilities on the occasion of the International Day dedicated to them, Pope Francis noted that baptism gives each one of us, “without exclusion or discrimination, the possibility of exclaiming, ‘I am Church!’”




Echoing the pope’s words, the Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life launched the videos, which will be released weekly, with the aim of highlighting the contribution that persons with disabilities offer to the ecclesial community on a daily basis.

The videos will illustrate the work of evangelization carried out by some young deaf persons in Mexico, of a monastery in France where several nuns with Down’s syndrome live out their vocation, and a group of young Italians with disabilities who participate in World Youth Day celebrations, among others.

“We are convinced that if we are able to listen attentively to the voices of our sisters and brothers with disabilities, the ecclesial community will come out truly enriched,” said Gabriella Gambino, undersecretary of the dicastery.

The campaign comes during the Amoris Laetitia Family Year launched by Pope Francis on March 19 to celebrate five years since the publication of the post-synodal Apostolic Exhortation, Amoris Laetitia on the beauty and joy of love in the family.

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The year-long celebration will conclude on June 26, 2022, on the occasion of the Tenth World Meeting of Families in Rome.

The videos are made by Poti Pictures, the film division of Coop Soc II Cenacolo, the first social film production company in the world which makes commercials, short films and feature films with actors with intellectual disabilities.

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