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World Health Day is a global health awareness day, celebrated each year on April 7, sponsored mainly by The World Health Organization (WHO).

2023 marks the 75^th anniversary of the founding of WHO. World Health Day provides an opportunity to look back at public health successes that have improved the quality of life for people over the past seven decades. It also aims to motivate governments and institutions to take action regarding the many health challenges nations face todaand into the future.

The theme for this year’s World Health Day is Health For All.

In his message for World Day of the Sick, 11 February 2023, Pope Francis said:

“These past years of the pandemic have increased our sense of gratitude for those who work each day in the fields of healthcare and research. Yet it is not enough to emerge from such an immense collective tragedy simply by honouring heroes. Covid-19 has strained the great networks of expertise and solidarity, and has exposed the structural limits of existing public welfare systems.  Gratitude, then, needs to be matched by actively seeking, in every country, strategies and resources in order to guarantee each person’s fundamental right to basic and decent healthcare.”

May governments and health systems be motivated to guarantee the healthcare that all of us need.

La Giornata mondiale della salute è una giornata di sensibilizzazione sulla salute globale, celebrata ogni anno il 7 aprile e promossa principalmente dall’Organizzazione Mondiale della Sanità (OMS).

Nel 2023 ricorre il 75° anniversario della fondazione dell’OMS. La Giornata mondiale della salute offre l’opportunità di ripercorrere i successi della sanità pubblica che hanno migliorato la qualità della vita delle persone negli ultimi sette decenni. Inoltre, mira a motivare i governi e le istituzioni ad agire per affrontare le numerose sfide sanitarie che le nazioni si trovano ad affrontare per il futuro.

Il tema della Giornata mondiale della salute di quest’anno è Salute per tutti.

Nel suo messaggio per la Giornata mondiale del malato, l’11 febbraio 2023, Papa Francesco ha detto:

“Questi ultimi anni di pandemia hanno aumentato il nostro senso di gratitudine per coloro che lavorano ogni giorno nei campi della sanità e della ricerca. Tuttavia, non è sufficiente uscire da una così immensa tragedia collettiva semplicemente onorando gli eroi. Il virus Covid-19 ha messo a dura prova le grandi reti di competenza e solidarietà e ha messo a nudo i limiti strutturali dei sistemi di assistenza pubblica esistenti. La gratitudine, quindi, deve essere accompagnata dalla ricerca attiva, in ogni Paese, di strategie e risorse per garantire il diritto fondamentale di ogni persona a un’assistenza sanitaria di base e dignitosa”.

Che i governi e i sistemi sanitari siano motivati a garantire l’assistenza sanitaria di cui tutti abbiamo bisogno.

On this St. Patrick’s Day, we send greetings to Irish Sisters of Mercy, Associates, Partners in Ministry and Friends of Mercy all over the world and to all Sisters of Mercyand the extended Mercy Family, who can claim Celtic roots through our foundress, Catherine McAuley.

Guímís Beannachtaí na Féile Pádraig ar Shiúracha na Trócaire ar fud an domhain ar Lá Fhéile Naomh Pádraig. Guímís sonas agus sláinte orthu siúd atá as baile as Éirinn agus orthu siúd ar fad a mhaíonn fréamhacha ceilteacha trénár mbunaitheoir, Catherine McAuley.

En este Día de San Patricio, enviamos saludos a las Hermanas de la Misericordia irlandesas, Asociados, Colaboradores en el Ministerio y Amigos de la Misericordia en todo el mundo y a todas las Hermanas de la Misericordia y la Familia de la Misericordia ampliada, que pueden reclamar raíces celtas a través de nuestra fundadora, Catalina McAuley.

Learn more about St Patrick, one of the patron saints of the Sisters of Mercy, in this clip from the film Celtic Pilgrimage (10.55)

“As we commemorate Saint Patrick’s legacy, guide and patron, whose life embodied the values of a shared, generous sense of humanity, let us do so by mustering the courage to recover the best instincts of our humanity, have the mettle to face those who resist such instincts, reaffirm and strengthen our commitment to advocating the principles that informed Patrick’s life, calling us as they do to embrace our role as global citizens, extending a hand of support to all those in need with whom we share this planet, respond with hospitality and kindness to those fleeing the ravages of hunger, conflict and climate change, thus bringing into reality our taking responsibility to work with fellow citizens for a more just and inclusive world.”

-Michael D. Higgins, President of Ireland
St Patrick’s Day Message 2023

“Al conmemorar el legado de San Patricio, guía y patrón, cuya vida encarnó los valores de un sentido compartido y generoso de la humanidad, hagámoslo reuniendo el valor para recuperar los mejores instintos de nuestra humanidad, tener el temple para enfrentarnos a quienes se resisten a tales instintos, reafirmar y reforzar nuestro compromiso de defender los principios que informaron la vida de Patricio, llamándonos como ellos a abrazar nuestro papel de ciudadanos del mundo, tendiendo una mano de apoyo a todos los necesitados con los que compartimos este planeta, respondiendo con hospitalidad y amabilidad a quienes huyen de los estragos del hambre, los conflictos y el cambio climático, haciendo así realidad nuestra responsabilidad asumida de trabajar con nuestros conciudadanos por un mundo más justo e inclusivo.”

Michael D. Higgins, Presidente de Irlanda
Mensaje del Día de San Patricio 2023

International Women’s Day is  celebrated annually as a focal point in the Women’s Rights Movement to bring attention to issues such as gender equality, reproductive rights and violence and abuse against women.

It is also a time to recognize and celebrate the social, cultural, economic and political achievements of women and girls in all parts of the world.

The International Women’s Day campaign theme for this year is Embrace Equity. When we embrace equity, we embrace diversity and we also embrace inclusion. Equity means creating an inclusive world for all.  We all need to challenge gender stereotypes,call out discrimination, draw attention to bias, and work for inclusion.

The Government of Canada has chosen Every Woman Counts as Canada’s theme for this year, a reminder that women from all walks of life and all ages have a place in very aspect of Canadian life and society.

El Día Internacional de la Mujer se celebra anualmente como punto central del Movimiento por los Derechos de la Mujer para llamar la atención sobre cuestiones como la igualdad de género, los derechos reproductivos y la violencia y los abusos contra las mujeres.

También es un momento para reconocer y celebrar los logros sociales, culturales, económicos y políticos de mujeres y niñas de todo el mundo.

El lema de la campaña del Día Internacional de la Mujer de este año es Abraza la equidad. Cuando abrazamos la equidad, abrazamos la diversidad y también abrazamos la inclusión. Equidad significa crear un mundo inclusivo para todos.  Todos debemos cuestionar los estereotipos de género, denunciar la discriminación, llamar la atención sobre los prejuicios y trabajar por la inclusión.

El Gobierno de Canadá ha elegido Todas las mujeres cuentan como lema de Canadá para este año, un recordatorio de que las mujeres de todas las profesiones y condiciones sociales y de todas las edades tienen un lugar en todos los aspectos de la vida y la sociedad canadienses.