GSR Today - It’s a big thing to understand that you – just as you are – are beautifully and wonderfully created in the image of God. It makes me cherish the work of people like the Kenyan Elizabethan sisters profiled in Melanie Lidman’s latest piece for Global Sisters Report.
by Helen Garvey
Contributor
One more Lent, one more chance to return to God with all our hearts. How does that happen?
GSR Today - The International Union of Superiors General (UISG), the world’s most representative women religious leadership organization, is moving into a new phase of drawing up a comprehensive strategic plan aimed at revitalizing the group and giving it direction in the coming years.
NCR Today - Sr. Houda Fadoul is a Syrian-Catholic nun who presides over a congregation of women religious near Nebek, Syria. Nebek a city of around 50,000 inhabitants, is 50 miles north-east of Damascus and about the same distance south the ancient Christian center of Homs. There are about 120 Catholic families there, served by one Syrian-Catholic parish and one Melkite parish.
On-site workshop at Naromoru Disabled Children’s Home, run by Elizabethan Sisters, helps build customized prosthetics, braces and walkers for a fraction of the cost of importing materials or finished products.
Related - ‘Show them that they have special abilities’
The Naromoru Disabled Children’s Home, started 33 years ago by Elizabethan Sisters from Italy, organizes surgery and rehabilitation for 100 children annually now. The sisters’ work has been a catalyst for changing community perceptions of disabilities in Kenya’s interior.
Related - In Kenya, 'shop locally' extends to prosthetics
by Joan Brown
As part of the 50 years of Sisters of Mercy presence in Peru, those who ministered among the people and were part of the history of the sisters in Peru were invited to celebrate at the beginning mission in Acora in the Alti Plano. I was invited to attend this celebration and see where the Mercy Sisters and other women religious communities and Maryknoll Sisters and Brothers worked since the call of Pope Saint John XXIII 50 years ago.
by GSR Staff
“You have to accompany them. For each one, the journey is different.”
GSR Today - Since Global Sisters Report is about facilitating connections among women religious around the world – and to the wider world – we’re happy to share the efforts of a community looking toward the future. The Journal News in White Plains, N.Y. reported on how the Dominican Sisters of Hope have revamped, retooled and relaunched their website.
by Tracy Kemme
Contributor
Nothing quite wakes up the world like a snowstorm! The power of snowflakes is in their togetherness. And so it is in the Christian life. We are stronger together. In religious life, this is particularly central. We are sisters because of our shared life. The title we are blessed to assume implies that our primary identity is one of relationship.
