Today, across the United States, Catholic communities will gather for the Day of Prayer for Peace in Our Communities, as mandated by USCCB president, Archbishop Joseph Kurtz. The phrase "our communities" strikes me. This is the Day of Prayer for Peace in Our Communities. The trouble of it is, for people that come from backgrounds like I do, we don't see the problem as ours.

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"Education for global citizenship 'is an essential strategy to address global challenges as well as to promote gender equality, facilitate the eradication of poverty and hunger, build skills, eliminate corruption, and prevent violence, including violent extremism.'"

Farman Khan was bitten by a cobra while working on a farm. The 35-year-old Muslim man killed the snake immediately and carried it to a nearby Catholic mission hospital. Khan, a landless agricultural laborer, is among thousands of villagers who have come to the hospital in the village near Ujjain, a temple town in Madhya Pradesh state, for treatment. The 20-bed hospital is managed by the Sisters of the Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament.

"I feel we are like a sleeping giant in terms of how much more we can achieve when we begin to network and collaborate and work together across congregations."

On a mission experience sponsored by the Sisters of Charity of Seton Hill to Ecuador in July, the final day on the schedule said: Medical services and mini-Olympics in a distant village. For most of the participants on the trip — sisters, teachers and volunteers — it was hard to imagine a place more remote than the small town where we had helped at a school for children with special needs that is sponsored by the Korean province of the Sisters of Charity of Seton Hill.

The Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul use part of their facility to offer accommodation to up to 30 patients and their relatives at a time in Ho Chi Mihn City. Most of the lodgers are from families with few resources or ethnic minority groups who live in remote areas. Dominican sisters in the neighboring province of Dong Nai run a charity clinic giving medical treatment to patients who can't make it to the city.

Sr. Senkenesh Gebre-Mariam, a 76-year-old Bethania sister who is the founder and director of the Medhen Social Center, decided to suspend services one day each week during the spring to train her staff to take a completely different approach to treating patients.

"We go from storm to storm; can we trust one another? Can we trust that God will help us find a way?"