María Alejandra Leguizamón Schija is a Dominican Sister of the Holy Name of Jesus in Tucumán, Argentina. Her pastoral specialization included a focus in human trafficking. A pastoral minister, she also works with a group which gives workshops for children through adults in border schools and neighborhoods.
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Andrew Mary Robinson is a Franciscan Missionary of Mary. Indian by nationality, she has worked in Cuba, Mexico and Nicaragua, in elder care, pastoral work, catechist preparation and in income-generating activities with women. Now she lives in Leon, Mexico, studying educational administration.
by Ma. Ceres P. Doyo
Contributor
Our Lady of Sion Sr. Patricia Fox learned June 18 that the Philippine Department of Justice was upholding her missionary visa. The news came on what could have been her last day in the Philippines, after two months of uncertainty. Fox spoke with GSR the day after the decision.
Jane Quinlan is a member of the Ursulines of Tildonk, U.S. Province. Classroom teacher, missionary to the Democratic Republic of Congo and vocation minister, she later represented her order at the U.N. She now serves in Brussels, Belgium, as Assistant General Superior of her congregation.
by GSR Staff
"We have to see it in terms of the community and how we live together with our diversity. We welcome the stranger because we're strangers ourselves. We're strangers to one another."
Imelda Maurer is a Sister of Divine Providence, San Antonio. With experience as a secondary classroom teacher and later a community organizer with sugarcane farmworkers and later with textile workers in Appalachia, she brings this same passion for advocacy to her present ministry, In Service to Our Own, a nonprofit organization of which she is founder and director.
Among the signers are 37 dioceses, close to 200 religious communities, more than 100 parishes, 61 Catholic universities, and more than a dozen Catholic health care organizations. "If we know creation is a gift for us to enjoy, to safeguard and to protect for future generations, climate change presents us with a moral crisis and a moral question," said Sr. Sharlet Wagner, president-elect of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious.
Cecilia Oluchi Dimaku is a member of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. After holding school and diocesan business positions, she served 12 years in leadership in Nigeria. She is now payroll/personnel coordinator at the Sisters of the Holy Family academy in New Orleans.
Tarianne DeYonker is a Dominican Sister of Adrian, Michigan. A teacher, administrator, marriage/family therapist, and program developer, she also served in community leadership. She is now in vocation work and facilitating creative writing workshops.
Lydia Collado is a member of the Religious of the Sacred Heart in Northern Samar, Philippines, where she heads the Sacred Heart Institute for Transformative Education (SHIFT) Foundation; it does campus/ pastoral ministry, operates a nursery, and manages an organic demonstration farm, Sophie's Farm.
