News and Events

Girardot (Colombia), 08/25/2022, Sr. Olga María Botia Sánchez, JPIC Delegate Santafé Province.- To bring to life the exhortations that the Social Doctrine of the Church and the documents of the Congregation propose is a permanent call to discernment and personal and community demands, to allow new experiences to be born that respond to the Cry of the earth and the Cry of the poor.

Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso), 15/08/2022, Sr. Viviane Kiswensida COMPAORE.- On August 8th 2022 in the Vice-Province of Africa, in the parish of Our Lady of Fatima of Dassasgho, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, we had the grace to celebrate several happy events which mark on the one hand the growth in number of our Vice-Province but on the other hand and above all the blessings of the Lord towards us by choosing from among us persons for the proclamation of his Good News in the service of the Church in the exercise of charity.

Sister Maria Escayola visit to the Province of Manizales, takes place within the accompaniment and follow-up that the Congregation does to all its works worldwide. Sister María and her councilors arrive in our city after having visited the Province of Bucaramanga the previous week.

Manizales (Colombia), 08/15/2022, UCM Communications.- On Wednesday, august the 10th, the Universidad Católica de Manizales (UCM) received with open arms Sister María Escayola Coris, General Superior of the Congregation of Dominican Sisters of Charity of the Presentation, who is making a Canonical visit to the provinces in Colombia and is present during this week to the works of the Congregation in Manizales.

Spain, 07/13/2022. Sr. Marta Elena Vélez Betancur.- Our resounding ‘no’ to human trafficking has its direct expression in Article 4 of the Declaration of Human Rights: "No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms".

Province of El Caribe, 06/24/2022, Sr. Nícida Amparo Díaz Leal.- The following article is intended as a reflection on the formation meeting of inter-congregational temporary vowed sisters, who expressed the following concern in their reflections: "We are concerned about the compulsive use of the mobile phones in some of our sisters in community. Tthere is no personal discernment and it is justified to have it, in time and out of time, with the pastoral work and the different commitments that one has...It has become the daily companion of life and this disconcerts us because we are losing the referents that help us to forge our will, responsibility and freedom" (Group of inter-congregational juniors, May 2022. Venezuela)

Manizales (Colombia), 06/24/2022, UCM Communications.- In addition to their interest in the integral formation of the person, the Catholic University of Manizales (UCM) and the Vasco de Quiroga University (UVAQ), in Mexico, have many similarities in search of the common good, which allowed them to achieve a synergy that became a reality with the signing of the institutional collaboration agreement between the two universities, a task that was part of the work agenda of UCM Rector Sister Elizabeth Caicedo, on her trip to Mexico.

Bogotá (Colombia), 06/18/2022, Sr. Anita Fernández Calderón.- On Saturday, June 4, the Sisters of the provinces of Bogotá and Santafé met in person and virtually to participate in the closing of the canonical visit of the General Government.

Guaimaca (Honduras), 06/08/2022, Sr. Slendy Johana Manrique.- “These words inspired by the Holy Spirit and proclaimed by Elizabeth to Mary at the Visitation, came to life again in the wonderful sign of Religious Profession of our Sister Ana Selenia Torreglosa Hernandez of the Vice Province of the United States. A triple joy filled us all in this Feast. The joy of the encounter, the joy of believing, and the joy of service.

Barcelona (Spain), 05/29/2022, Srs. Gemma Morató and Conchi García.- On May 29, at the Marist School "La Inmaculada" in Barcelona, more than 700 people gathered to celebrate the closing of the diocesan phase of the Synod in Barcelona. This meeting marks the end of the first phase of a process initiated by Pope Francis in October 2021.