From five loaves of bread and two fish, He feeds the five thousand. (Matthew 14:13-21) As a response to the cries of a single mother with two children and to some young Vietnamese trainees and overseas students who have lost their jobs due to the declaration of...
Today, we invite you to watch the second, newly released video, prepared by Migrants and Refugee Section, in which the Holy Father explores the sub-theme “To be close in order to serve”. It offers the real-life testimony of an internally displaced person who describes how the solidarity of generous...
Few women have passed through the Kalakasan migrant centre during the pandemic. They were afraid to leave. But one day Imelda Flores Ishiwata came to talk to us and today she wants to tell her story. She is 51 years old, married to Takahiro Ishiwata, 72,...
By the side of the Northern Highway in Bogotá, dozens of our Venezuelan brothers and sisters hope to find some way to travel to the border city of Cúcuta, and from there to be able to return to their country. This problem has become more acute...
At the end of April and the beginning of May in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, around 300 Peruvians went to the Peruvian consulate in Santiago seeking repatriation. Families with small children, pregnant women who with the distress of being unemployed desperately wanted to...
We share the testimonies of a family and a teacher about the "virtual" celebration of the Feast of Saint Raphaela. There are many more of us! This year, as every 18th of May, we have celebrated a beautiful Eucharist, in which we have participated from different places in Spain,...
When the recent General Congregation, via Decree 2, launched us into the practice of Social Economy in Solidarity which is reflected in concrete choices, we never thought that there would come a time when we would implement these choices during and after a pandemic like the one we...
Our community of Chota, motivated by the call of Pope Francis in his encyclical Laudato Si’, where he tells us, “More than in ideas or concepts as such, I am interested in how such a spirituality can motivate us to a more passionate concern for the protection of our...
Today I planted 20 saplings! All of them tropical fruit trees! And at the end of the day I heard that the Pope has proclaimed Laudato Si’ year, coinciding with Laudato Si’ Week, 5 years after the encyclical. What great news! A confirmation of the new mission possibilities opening up...
We continue in lockdown because of Covid-19, and we are becoming involved in telephone accompaniment to some immigrant families. It has not been difficult to notice how important it is to have a "friendly voice" in the midst of so many threatening voices that give rise to insecurity. Sr....
