News and Events

Paris (France), 03/12/2022, Sr Monique Colrat.-  At the end of October 2021, the sisters arrived to 310 rue de Vaugirard in its new buildings. Sisters from various Congregations with their Charisms: three Auxiliary Sisters, two canons from the Congregation of St. Augustine of Notre Dame, two Dominican Sisters of Roman Congregation CRSD, two Xaverian Sisters and the others from Dominican Sisters of the Presentation. 20 sisters have taken their residence in the new building and live in the places that some of us will remember.... But now, everything is quite different from what it was before or it is almost different.

São José da Mata (Brazil), 03/11/2022, Sr. Maria Cleide Pires de Andrade.-  Our community, formed by three sisters is located in the District of São José da Mata in the department of Paraíba, in the Northeast region of Brazil. This region of the country is very rich in natural beauties and its culture is quite diverse, however, it has great social problems caused by the concentration of income in a few people, unemployment, and the scarcity of rains, a natural phenomenon that causes constant droughts.

Burkina Faso (África), 03/09/2022, Sr. Chantal Ouédraogo.-  This year, our Vice-Province had the grace of receiving the General Government for the canonical visitation as recommended in our documents. It was a great moment of sharing, of fraternity, of giving and receiving, from December 27, 2021 to February 12, 2022.

Bogotá D. C. (Colombia), 03/01/2022, Sr. Nubia Yaneth Chávez.- The Province of Bogota rejoices with the Religious Profession of the novice Doris Adriana Rojas Socha, who absolutely said Yes to the Lord in our Congregation, last February 13, 2022.

Rome (Italy), 28/02/2022, Sisters of the General Government.- We are living in a very delicate time, the conflict between Ukraine and Russia affects all of us; we witness the failure in the search for peace and dialogue. There is fear, massive displacement of people, separation of families and the neglect of the most needy.

Putaendo (Chile), 02/28/2022, Sr. Licarayén Torres Muñoz.- During the year 2019, a historic event took place in Chile which, although many did not see it that way, came to change the path our country was following after the return to democracy. The media reported what was happening, especially in the big cities, but also in all corners of our country. Social discontent had "exploded" after years of injustice, lies and corruption, Chile rose up to shout loudly that life could not go on in the same way.

Rumania, 02/10/2022, Sr. Victoria Balteanu.- On February 2, the feast of "Presentation of Jesus in the Temple and the Feast of all Consecrated Life" was celebrated in the Universal Church throughout the world. The invitation of Pope Francis to "walk together" in the diversity of consecrated life, encourages us to value each one’s mission and of course he also invites us to safeguard our own Charism for the richness of the Church. Everything is possible if we are open to the signs of the times.

Colombia, 02/03/2022, Sr. Gloria Patricia Corredor Mendoza, President of CONACED.- Being part of the Ecclesial Assembly for Latin America and the Caribbean Islands, as delegate from the Religious Conference of Colombia (CRC) and responsible as President of the Catholic Schools in Colombia (CONACED), aware of the difficult and uncertain times in which we live when the education and the views of many suffers, with the worst crisis where many gaps, problems and delays are revealed; this meeting was an opportunity to look again at education from the point of view of the Church, that is our common mission of education.