News and Events

Jerusalem, 09/14/2026, Sr. Rosario Garcés.- La Maison d'Abraham is a former French Benedictine monastery built in 1903 and originally used as a seminary for the Syro-Catholic Eastern Church. In 1963, the Patriarch of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church called Monsignor Jean Rodhain, President of Secours Catholique and Caritas Internationalis, to ask him to build a Cité-secours in Jerusalem to welcome poor pilgrims from the Middle East.

Dassasgho (Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso), September 14, 2024, Sr. Viviane Compaore.- This is the day that the Lord has acted; let it be our joy and our delight, Hallelujah! Two consecutive days of festivities in the Vice-Province of Africa are being celebrated in thanksgiving for the religious professions of some of our sisters. Indeed, the entire Vice-Province sings the wonders of the Lord for so many blessings: He has deemed it fit to increase the number of Sisters even more through the first religious profession on Friday, September 13, 2024.

Province of Our Lady of the Americas, Sister Janet Ceja Sáenz, Member of the CODALC team.- The teams of the Confederation of Dominican Sisters of Latin America and the Caribbean (CODALC) and the Interprovincial Conference of Dominicans of Latin America and the Caribbean (CIDALC) were responsible for organizing the Meeting of Dominican Formators.

Bucaramanga (Colombia), 09/14/2024, Sr. Adelaida Alba Botello.- The restructuring has brought with it the experience of synodality in the willingness to walk together as the new province of Our Lady of the Presentation. For this reason, a very special celebration was held to honor the Lord's faithfulness to six sisters who were celebrating their 60 years of consecration, five sisters who were celebrating 25 years, and, in the spring of her life, the religious consecration of novice Yenny Paola Flórez Álvarez.

Sr. Gloria Luz Villegas, provincial of Medellín.- Following the conclusion of the 56th General Chapter and after a day of rest, the meeting of the new General Government with the prioresses of the different provinces and vice-provinces of the Congregation was organized from August 10 to 14.

Dassasgho (Burkina Faso), 26/08/2024, Vice Province of Africa.- On August 24, 2024, the Vice Province of Africa welcomed five new novices during a Mass presided over by Father Laurent, the Camillian novice master, in our chapel at Dassasgho.

Paris (France), article published in the magazine Études 2024/6 (June), pages 79 - 89 Éditions S.E.R., Sr. Anne Lécu.- In addition to prayers for healing, in recent years there has been a boom in so-called "deliverance" prayers and the attempt to justify them by developing a new concept, that of "bonding", which would be neither vice nor error. Originating in the Charismatic Renewal and especially in the Pentecostal world, these prayers have gradually been incorporated into the practice of many new communities and far beyond. However, they raise several questions, of which this article aims to draw up a non-exhaustive inventory.

La Grande Bretèche, Tours (France), 06/25/2024, Sr. Rosario Garcés del Castillo.- Work on the Grande Bretèche is nearing conclusion, with the General Chapter due to take place soon. The workers were exceptional in meeting the very tight deadlines: 9 months for the entire St Catherine's building. In the presence of Sr Véronique Margron, our Provincial Superior, a cocktail gathering was prepared to thank them.

Rome (Italy), 05/06/2024, Community of the General Government.- With the desire to share with Pope Francis about the upcoming 56^th General Chapter and to ask for his prayers and support, the community of the General Government requested an audience and although it was not specifically for us, we were given the opportunity to participate having a special place with an opportunity of personally greet the Pope on Wednesday, June 5, 2024.