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LA VIE, Published on 03/13/2020, Sr. Anne Lécu (http://www.lavie.fr/debats/idees/un-careme-au-temps-du-coronavirus-13-03-2020-104667_679.php).- A Dominican nun and a doctor in prison, Sr. Anne Lécu calls on Christians to be "legitimate" and to implement non-profit health decisions in the name of the common good. But she also offers a deep meditation for these moments of solitude and silence.

Putaendo (Chile), 03/07/2020, Sr. Gabriela Vergara R.- On March 7, 2020 the sisters of the Vice-Province of Aconcagua with a large number of lay people, friends, relatives, missionaries of the Presentation and members of the educational institutions gathered at Marie Poussepin’s College in Putaendo to celebrate the 60 years of the missionary presence of the Congregation in Chile.

Rome (Italy), 03/16/2020, Sr. Maria Escayola and sisters of the communities of Rome.- Dear Sisters: From Rome, we want to thank you for the messages of concern, closeness and prayers of all the sisters, communities, families and friends worried about the well-being of each sister present in Italy, a country strongly affected by Covid-19.

Indiranagar, Bangalore (India), 03/12/2020, Community of Dourdan.- To mark the celebration of the 25th anniversary of the beatification of our Mother Foundress Blessed Marie Poussepin, the social apostle of charity the Province of India being true to the call of the Gospel to live love of God expressed in mercy towards neighbor, specially the poor, has begun a Soup Kitchen at Dourdan Community, Bangalore under our social work project ‘PATH’.

Bogotá (Colombia), 03/06/2020, Sr. María Leonor Charria Angulo, OP.- Pope Francis published the Post-Synodal Exhortation entitled ‘Querida Amazonia’, (Beloved Amazon Region) on February 12, 2019, as the end result of the Synod of Bishops for the Pan-Amazon Region "The Amazon: New Paths for the Church and for an Integral Ecology held in Rome from October 6 to 27, 2019. 

Manizales (Colombia), 08/02/20, Sr. María Elizabeth Caicedo Caicedo, Principal.-On December 9, 2019, the Ministry of National Education granted the High-Quality Institutional Accreditation to the Catholic University of Manizales for four years, through Resolution No. 013600.

Interprovincial novitiate Villa Clara, Manizales (Colombia), 02/02/2020, Sr. Irma Jiménez Afanador, mistress of novices.- On this feast of the presentation of the Lord in the temple and the celebration of the day of consecrated life, Villa Clara interprovincial novitiate welcomed a new group of novices. The Congregation accepted to accompany these eight young women who with a generous disposition was attracted by the project of God in their life and wanted to continue their process of formation in their search and discernment to make a choice for life in the Charism of Blessed Marie Poussepin.

Sainville (France), 02/03/2020, Sr. Diana Gisela Dolorita.- On January 24, 2020, in an atmosphere of great joy and thanksgiving, a heartwarming Eucharistic celebration marked the reopening of the Community of Sainville. In her words of welcome, Sr. Maria Escayola Coris, Superior General recalled that Marie Poussepin had established a community in Sainville for the service of the parish, to instruct youth and serve the sick poor of the village. The raison d'être of her Community is to know and announce Jesus Christ through the service of Charity.

Medellín (Colombia), 01/10/2020, Office of Clinical Communication "El Rosario".- On December 31, the Governor of Antioquia (Colombia), Dr. Luis Pérez Gutiérrez, decorated with El Escudo de Antioquia, Gold Category; to H. Olga Lucia Zuluaga Serna, “for the dedication of his life in favor of health and humanized and quality care to patients”.