Sevilla, Spain. Every year the Claretians of Bética celebrate a formation encounter in the month of February. The encounter is organized by zones, which facilitate the participation, without neglecting care to the communities and apostolic works.

Sri Lanka. February 2, 2012, Feast Day of the Presentation of the Lord will be registered in the annals of the Claretian Congregation in Sri Lanka as a day to be remembered as the Sri Lankan Claretian Mission was raised as a Dependent Delegation in the Province of Germany.

Chicago, USA. Malachy McCarthy, Archivist for the Claretian Missionaries Archives in Chicago and President of the Chicago Area Religious Archivists (CARA) was selected to receive the Society of American Archivist's (SAA) Sister M. Claude Lane Award.