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A new website: "Give reason for our hope"

09 Mar, 2016
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Rome (Italy), 03/09/2015, Sr. Maria Escayola, Superior General.- With joy I present to you this new stage in the history of the webpage of the Congregation, after a time of rest and renewal. At every meeting or reunion during these recent years the need to venture into the world of Social Means of Communication has been stressed as the "new means for evangelization," to carry everywhere the knowledge of Jesus Christ and his mysteries, according to the desire expressed by Marie Poussepin since the beginning of her foundation.

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Symposium on the Word of God: 50 years of the Constitution Dei Verbum

06 Mar, 2016
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Rome (Italy), 03/06/2015.- To mark the occasion of the eighth centenary of the Order and the 50th anniversary of the Constitution Dei Verbum, an international symposium on the Word of God was held at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas ANGELICUM - Rome from 25 to 27 February 2016. Over 300 persons from the five continents participated in this Congress. About 30 sisters of our Congregation attended the Congress: the sisters currently living a formative experience in the CEMP, others from the community of Sainville and of Rome. It was a meeting of high quality, deep theological reflection, open environment in a simple and fraternal sharing between sisters and brothers. 
 
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Santa Fe, Colombia: A Travel in Time "Las Colinas"

03 Mar, 2016
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Bogotá (Colombia), 03/03/2016, Sr. Juliana Alejandra Triana Palomino.- In the Institution for Social Work Education "Las Colinas", a group of children from 4 and 5 grades will travel in time and arrive in the seventeenth century to investigate the therapeutic and medicinal practices of the time, practiced individually in a French town called Sainville. During one year, these great researchers will dedicate to learn botanical, chemical, physical and epidemiological terms; they will speak without difficulty on erythrocytes and will illustrate on bacteria and other "invisible enemies", the "asepsis" even pronounced with difficulty, will be a subject for analysis in these small giants of 1.40m tall, with immense desire to learn.

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