June 22, 2015

"Carrying a pack -lost hopes and dreams
A labor of love.
The woman sets out for new horizons.
Strength and faith lead the way."

- Barbara Schwarz, OP, whose gallery in the Ministry of Preaching Through the Arts of the Sisters of St. Dominic can be viewed at artafire.homestead.com

June 20 was U.N. World Refugee Day.

A new report by the Office of the U.N. High ­Commissioner for Refugees, which follows global trends in displacement, recently marked that the number of people who are living in other countries or are internally displaced in their own countries has surged to an unprecedented 60 million