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Catholic sisters embrace the study of theology in full swing in Africa
… 15 African countries: Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Zambia, Rwanda, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Ethiopia, Ghana, Benin, Nigeria, Lesotho, South Africa, Namibia and South Sudan. Others will be in …
Former directors reflect on ASEC's gifts, 25-year milestones
… piloted at the Catholic University of Eastern Africa (Kenya) and the Catholic University of Ghana (Sunyani). The second model was entirely onsite at local African universities. I am proud …
Over 25 years, ASEC programs to educate sisters have evolved
… basic technology workshops in Africa were held for 36 sisters in summer 2005 in Kenya and Ghana. A year later, five African sisters traveled to the U.S. to receive training to become … to sisters serving select countries — Kenya, Uganda and Zambia in East Africa, and Cameroon, Ghana and Nigeria in West Africa — where access to information and communications technology make …
Cultural and spiritual differences can challenge us, enrich our faith journeys
… 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 …
Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of Africa continue ministry at Montreal intercultural center
… Center visitors hold a special appreciation for both sisters. Ruth Baah Donkor arrived from Ghana two and a half months ago. She met Toutant at the hospital, where they both volunteer. … center." Bonnefoy worked as an educator in a secondary school in Algeria, a small seminary in Ghana and a local school in Malawi. She also formed youth to enter their convent in Europe and …
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 …