Category: Felician Sisters

For peacemakers around the globe, the 75th anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is a call to recommit ourselves to advocate for a world free of the threat and tyranny of nuclear weapons. On this solemn anniversary, Pax Christi USA and a coalition of partner organizations are raising awareness of the imminent threat of…

“One of the deepest longings of the human heart is for security, peace and stability. The possession of nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction is not the answer to this desire.” ~ Pope Francis, Nagasaki Hypocentre Park, November 2019 To participate in the project and make a peace ribbon panel, click here. For peacemakers…

Pope’s August prayer intention: people in the maritime world In his prayer intention for this month of August, Pope Francis urges prayers for seafarers and those working in the maritime world. By Robin Gomes Pope Francis on Tuesday released a video message containing his prayer intention for the month of August. He invites prayers for…

This spring, Mooncrest Neighborhood Programs in Moon Township, Pennsylvania, celebrated a major milestone with one of their neighbors. At the age of 21, after having come to the country as an asylum seeker, struggling with language barriers and becoming a first-time mother, Sindy Niz Juarez received her high school diploma from the Moon Township School District. Sindy…

Protect Our Children Act Child online sexual exploitation is rampant. As with all pandemics, online sexual abuse of children is not easy to detect, threatens lives, especially of the most vulnerable, and if unaddressed, will have daunting and irreversible impacts on families and society. In 2019, the New York Times reported, in a series of articles on this crime,…

Federal Judge Orders ICE to Release Children Due to COVID A federal judge ruled Friday evening that immigrant children held in ICE detention must be released by July 17 due to the danger of the coronavirus pandemic, an order that was met with urgings from rights groups for the concurrent release of parents as well…

Sister Thea Bowman … religious sister, civil rights advocate, candidate for sainthood NA Staff, Jun 18, 2020 / 03:00 am (CNA).- Sister Thea Bowman was the granddaughter of a slave, an advocate for racial justice, and the first African American woman to address the U.S. bishops’ conference. Two years ago, her sainthood cause was opened.

Pope adds three new invocations to the Litany of the Blessed Virgin Mary 22 June 2020   /“Mater misericordiae”, the Latin for “Mother of mercy”; “Mater spei”, or “Mother of hope”; and “Solacium migrantium”, or “Solace of migrants” are the new invocations to the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Litany of Loreto, which is often…

  A refugee is someone who fled his or her home and country owing to “a well-founded fear of persecution because of his/her race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion”, according to the United Nations 1951 Refugee Convention. Many refugees are in exile to escape the effects of natural or…

World Day Against Child Labour is observed on June 12. The day is marked each year to highlight the barbaric practice of child labour. The theme this year is, ‘COVID-19 – Protect children from child labour now, more than ever”. According to figures available on the United Nations’ website, approximately 152 million children have been…