About Us

The Locus is a Research and Training Center based in Rome (Italy) [MIUR Registration: n. 62909YJC] with the aim of fostering solidarity citizenship in its various forms of social utility. To achieve this goal, it proposes, exclusively, to develop activities of general interest that we list briefly:
    Education, instruction, and vocational training.Cultural activities of social interest with educational purposes.University and post-university education.Organization and management of cultural, artistic, or recreational activities of social interest, including editorial activity for the promotion and diffusion of culture and the practice of volunteering.Organization and management of tourist activities of social, cultural, or religious interest.Promotion of a culture of peace among peoples, non-violence, and non-armed defense.Promotion and protection of human rights, civil, social, and political.Spread, study, and develop the themes of Marian culture, an important axis of the common identity of international communities, which can constitute a reference platform for the design of shared models of coexistence, common guardianship, political and social participation.
Founding membersA Locus in its constitution presents as founding members:President – Daniel Cerqueira Afonso (University Professor, AuthorLecturer Member of the Scientific Committee of the Centre for Environmental Research and Biotechnology. See CV)Vice-President – Ercole Amato (University Professor, Author, Speaker, and President of the Centro di Ricerca in Scienze Ambientali e Biotecnologie [Research Center in Environmental Sciences and Biotechnology])Secretary – Giampiero Valenza (Journalist, University Professor, Author, Speaker, and Vice President of the Center for Research in Environmental Sciences and Biotechnology)

Advisor – Jasmin Juros (Advocate at the Roman Rota Court, Doctor in Canon Law, specialized in matters of declaring marriages null, Activist for women’s rights from a canonical perspective)

Co-founder – Enzo Rossi (University Professor, Author, Speaker, President of the Center for Economic and Legal Research at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Studies “Tor Vergata”)

Founding member – Paolo Iafrate (Lawyer, University Professor, Author, Speaker, and member of the Centro di Ricerche Economiche e Giuridiche (Economic and Legal Research Center) at UniRoma2).Co-founder – Caroline Pereira Muniz (Biologist, Author (Amazon Author), Conference Speaker, Mariology Enthusiast (Postgraduate Program in Mariology))

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Director of Locus Mariologicus BR LTDCaroline Pereira Muniz (Biologist, Author (Amazon Link), Conference Speaker, Mariology Enthusiast (Postgraduate Program in Mariology))

Spiritual Assistant in Minas Gerais

Father Jorge (Jerzy) Wydrych (Rector of the Archdiocesan Sanctuary of Our Lady of Aparecida – Contagem, MG)