Challenges

For the World Day of Refugees, some Sisters of the Curia participated in the prayer “Dying of Hope,” an ecumenical religious service held in memory all the people who lose their lives on the journey toward Europe. With the Cross of Lampedusa presiding, a community diverse...

“Communion, participation, mission…” Inspiring words for the entire Church, and “resonating” in my heart in the key of greater commitment as Saint Raphaela would wish, on seeing “how many children God has.” Participating in the Synodal Team of the CEE (Episcopal Conference of Spain), as...

In our school of the Handmaids of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, this year we continue to develop the interdisciplinary project ReparaMundi. One of the objectives that we propose is to know biodiversity, the different ecosystems and the close relationship that we have with our...

The Community of Sevilla has been collaborating with Bio-Alverde, since 2020. Bio-Alverde is a non-profit social employment agency promoted by Caritas of the Diocese of Sevilla.More than 50% of their workforce is comprised of people socially excluded from the labor force(long-term unemployed, immigrants, problems with...

During the month of April my 4th year social studies students in Ituzaingó and I embarked on an ABP (project-based learning) on immigrants who arrived in our country at the end of the nineteenth century and the beginnings of the twentieth century. Our guiding question...

On Easter Sunday we had the most beautiful Easter dinner ever in the garden of Palmela. The communities in the south of Portugal (Fonte da Prata, Lisboa and Palmela) joined with the Ukrainian families who have been living here for some weeks. There was a family...

On March 25 Lisbeth Carmona and her 11 year old son Eduardo came to our Handmaid community in Montevideo, Uruguay. Lisbeth was pregnant ,and they had travelled from Lima, Peru, arriving in Uruguay via Paysandú, a city in the west of Uruguay. And on Sunday...

We would like to tell you about how we came to welcome nineteen Ukrainians into our community. When the war broke out over a month ago, our community immediately looked for a way to respond to a request for help from our neighbors, the Friars Minor;...