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Domestic servitude and early marriage crimes are against our children
… Faith and Justice Network in collaboration with Dominicans for Justice and Peace Nigeria and Ghana in January 2024. The workshop drew members from different spheres of life — religious …
Media training in Ghana empowers sisters to tell their stories
… Damian Avevor … In Ghana, women religious are pioneers in social intervention projects of the Catholic Church, but … of the Church, an English tutor at Our Lady of Apostles Girls Senior High School at Ho in Ghana's Volta region, "This program is a dream come true for those of us who have journalistic …
Pandemic challenges open door to new training format
… a particular part of the world. On July 3, 15 sisters of the institute from Benin, Ethiopia, Ghana and Nigeria were selected to begin their journey towards becoming safeguarders. The …
Whatever our ministry or role, we are each 'the miracle of an original'
… After her college presidency, she taught literature in India, Australia, China, Japan and Ghana. Feeley has a master's degree in English from Villanova University and a doctorate from …
GSR amplifies voices and activities of African sisters beyond the continent
… in Africa a space for expressing their collective credible voice in the public square in Ghana, Tanzania, Zambia, Uganda, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Nigeria as they tackle …
Catholic Sisters Initiative webinar highlights support for human-trafficking survivors
… telling their families, she added. The woman didn't bring them to Italy, however, but to Ghana, where she informed the young women that they must prostitute themselves. "That's when she …
Q & A with Sr. Angela Mbalu Bangura, provincial superior for 3 countries
… as a leader was to unify all three West African provinces in three countries — Sierra Leone, Ghana and Gambia — which are under her authority. She referred to this move as "living the …
Q&A with Sr. Dusty Farnan, working at the UN toward gender equality
… director and justice promoter. As a formation minister working with Indigenous sisters in Ghana and Kenya, she saw how few rights are granted to African women. In 2015, as part of a …
From clericalism to communion: The church's never-ending conversion
… After her college presidency, she taught literature in India, Australia, China, Japan and Ghana. Feeley has a master's degree in English from Villanova University and a doctorate from …
Meet the new sisters panel for the 7th year of The Life
… After her college presidency, she taught literature in India, Australia, China, Japan and Ghana. Feeley has a master's degree in English from Villanova University and a doctorate from …
How has the synodal process affected Catholic sisters?
… month. ______ … Gifty Atampoka Abane is a member of the Society of the Holy Child Jesus from Ghana. She is a teacher in a Catholic girls' high school in Ghana and serves their province in leadership. … The synodal process awakens in me a new …
UISG forum: Sisters want to change the world, not just the church
… we are accomplices," said Poreku, who is a Missionary Sister of Our Lady of Africa from Ghana and coordinator of UISG's Sowing Hope for the Planet project. Pointing to the inhumanity of …
Moments of frustration but also hope: Sisters believe synod will bring slow change
… but the change is slow," said Poreku, who is a Missionary Sister of Our Lady of Africa from Ghana and coordinator of UISG's Sowing Hope for the Planet project. Poreku said she had no …
Kathleen Feeley
… After her college presidency, she taught literature in India, Australia, China, Japan and Ghana. Feeley has a master's degree in English from Villanova University and a doctorate from …
Africa Faith and Justice Network marks 40 years of advancing advocacy
… governance program, which currently focuses on corruption in Cameroon and land grabbing in Ghana. Rogers said that, in Ghana, multinational corporations are using predatory practices to cheaply buy large amounts of …
We need to move beyond the noise
… Project, this concept is from the Asante Twi language of the Akan tribe of Western Africa (Ghana). As the project explains, the etymology of the word Sankofa is: san ("to return"); ko ("to …
Webinar participants say planning is 'critical' in the care for aging sisters
… for Research in Religious Life and Apostolate (CERRA-AFRICA) of care for elderly sisters in Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Uganda and Zambia were also presented during the webinar. The study found … early planning for elderly care. Partnerships have been forged in countries such as Kenya, Ghana, Uganda, Mexico, Zambia and Chile, she said, where dedicated research on elderly care has …
Catholic sisters, activists express worry by lack of progress on UN goals
… Anto , a girls education advocate and a member of the Society of the Holy Child Jesus in Ghana , and a member of a group of visiting African sisters who attended SDG-related events in …
Proactive care, healthy aging mark Avila Institute pilot program with global reach
… pilot program is providing sisters in countries including Kenya, India, Mexico, Zambia and Ghana ways to assess the health of their communities, to identify aging-related concerns, and to …
Catholic student center at Washington's Howard University named for Sister Thea Bowman
… have called us to be." Another co-president of HU Bison Catholic, Loren Otoo -- a junior from Ghana majoring in electrical engineering -- noted that when he came to the university he sought a …