08 Jun, 2016
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El Callao (Peru), 06/04/2016, Sr. Luz Maribel Burgos Ugaz.- Sr. Maribel, coordinator of the Sanitary Prevention and control center for Tuberculosis of St. Joseph’s Hospital in El Callao, works with a multidisciplinary team integrated by a neurologist, a nurse, a psychiatrist, a social worker, a dietitian, a pharmacist and several technical nursing personnel. I am convinced that to preserve the health of those persons affected by TBC is a must. They have to be treated in a humanitary way. To learn from their experiences is for me a great richness, because these vulnerable persons often suffer also from social exclusion.

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22 May, 2016
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Amman (Jordan), 05/18/2016, Sr. Vinitha.- The Ministry of Social Development Jordan signed a contract of cooperation agreement on Tuesday 17 may, 2016 with Caritas Jordan and Italian Hospital Amman and the Jordanian Women Solitary Institute, Whose head is Asma Khader. Present at the ceremony was Minister of Social Development, H.E Reem Abu Hassan.

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18 May, 2016
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Roma (Italia), 05/14/2016, General Government.- "Preaching Justice. Volume II. Contributions of Dominican Sisters to Social Ethics in the Twentieth Century." Is the title of the book that was presented on May 13, 2016 at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum) in Rome, in the celebration of the eighth centenary of the confirmation of the Order. The book, published in English, presents 22 articles of different experiences of Dominican Sisters in 26 countries. This second volume is a continuation of one already presented on the experience of preaching justice of the Friars in 2007. Our Congregation participated in this effort through Srs. Beatriz Alicia and Maria Leonor Charria Angulo; the title of their article is: "The Dominican Charism lived with and from the perspective of the poor. Where there is life, there is still hope!" It is in the section E, named: "Building a new vision."

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