Challenges

FICONPAZ (Foundation Institute for Building Peace) is a children’s movement SEMBRADORES DE PAZ (SOWERS OF PEACE) of the Archdiocese of Bogotá. In Caracolí it was begun with adolescents who received Confirmation in November, 2019, and a girl who made her First Communion. Other adolescents have...

Revitalizing our living of the Eucharist and its apostolic meaning, has involved the community of Bazartete in a process of going forth. We go forth from our house every day in order to have Adoration in the church, getting out of our easy and comfortable schedule....

The ACI Family of Ecuador accepted the challenge to go deeper into the apostolic meaning of Adoration, making the commitment to read the book by Sr. Nurya Martínez-Gayol which bears that title. In anticipation of the yearly National Meeting in the retreat house in Cuenca, we...

Walking through the town, we met up with Nimer, a young man, dark skinned, thin, polite, humble, smiling, who looked at us hopefully. He had just come back from Venezuela, with his wife and three-year-old son. She was not with him at that moment because...

On February 25 and 26 in the Argentina-Uruguay Province we met to deepen together in the decree of Social and Solidarity Economy of GC XX.       We begin the reflection with the text of the Gospel of Mc 8, 14-21 and the text worked at the Intermediate...

The Handmaids of the United States have been involved in projects in El Salvador for more than 15 years. From these experiences and the migration reality that we are living with the current Administration in our country we want to echo a report that reveals...

I want to tell you about Laye and Jordi. This is a case where the words of Pope Francis in 2018 for the Day of the Immigrant have been fulfilled: WELCOME, PROTECT, PROMOTE AND INTEGRATE. Laye is a sub-Saharan boy from Conakry, Guinea, who came to...

Refoulement (expulsion) - Also known as "deportation" or, in some cases, "expulsion", refoulement is the act by which, under an order of deportation, expulsion or refoulement, a State compels an alien to leave its territory and returns him or her to his or her country...

In the Atlantic Europe Province responding to what Intermediate Meeting X asked us to do:  "To opt for a commitment that makes visible the path of ecological conversion as an Institute. Each circumscription, according to its context, chooses an option that expresses the commitment to care for...

A few months ago we shared from Sangmelima how we had prepared the school community to accept the new students who had been displaced by the war in our country. Today we hear from a teacher also who was displaced and who has become part...