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Nov 5, 2024 | 
globalsistersreport.org | Oliver Samson
Sr. Angelina Julom joined the Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth as an aspirant in 1985, visiting informal settlers and providing spiritual needs, like sacraments and Bible studies. She also taught nursery students during her earlier years as a nun, making her final profession of vows in 1996. During high school, she noticed that relatives and friends would approach her and confide about things that troubled them.
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Sep 30, 2024 | 
globalsistersreport.org | Oliver Samson
For more than 10 years, the Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate Conception of the Holy Mother of God have been supporting the education of children. They have also been helping economically challenged parents earn more and sustain the needs of their children in education. Currently, the sisters take care of two "adopted" communities in the Philippines' central Visayas region, said Sr. Girlie Lopez, formation program coordinator of her congregation.
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Aug 13, 2024 | 
ncronline.org | Oliver Samson
On May 23, 2017, what would be known as the Siege of Marawi erupted between the Philippine government forces, and the Maute and Abu Sayyaf groups affiliated with the Islamic State group. Br. Christopher Villanueva, a Franciscan friar, joined other volunteers in a relief mission trip to Lanao del Norte, where evacuees sought refuge. Marawi is a Islamic city in Lanao del Sur more than 1,200 kilometers southeast of Manila. Lanao del Norte is a neighboring province.
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Aug 8, 2024 | 
globalsistersreport.org | Oliver Samson
The Philippines is the only state outside the Vatican prohibiting divorce — for now, as a new House bill is currently in the works to legalize it. The proposed Absolute Divorce Act (House Bill No. 9349) passed the third and final reading in May this year and is still awaiting Senate approval before the president signs it into law.
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Jun 20, 2024 | 
ncronline.org | Oliver Samson |Teresa Anyabuike |Thomas Scaria
The Sisters of the Divine Savior in the Philippines are unanimously opposed to a proposed constitutional change on economic provisions, said Sr. Adeline Abamo, the congregation's outgoing regional superior. On March 6, the House of Representatives adopted a resolution calling for a convention to amend the constitution; the delegates to vote on the resolution will be elected in October, though the constitutional convention still has no date.
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Jun 20, 2024 | 
globalsistersreport.org | Oliver Samson
The Sisters of the Divine Savior in the Philippines are unanimously opposed to a proposed constitutional change on economic provisions, said Sr. Adeline Abamo, the congregation's outgoing regional superior. On March 6, the House of Representatives adopted a resolution calling for a convention to amend the constitution; the delegates to vote on the resolution will be elected in October, though the constitutional convention still has no date.
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Jan 15, 2024 | 
globalsistersreport.org | Oliver Samson
Los residentes del Hogar María Madre de la Misericordia para Ancianas y Desamparadas de San Pedro (Laguna, Filipinas) se reúnen en la cabaña exterior del recinto para rezar la coronilla de la Divina Misericordia y el rosario; allí también ven la televisión. (Foto: Oliver Samson) Cuatro hermanas de San Francisco Javier atienden a 18 ancianas en una residencia ubicada en San Pedro, una ciudad al sur de Manila.
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Sep 14, 2023 | 
ncronline.org | Rhina Guidos |Margaret Cessna |Oliver Samson |Julie A. Ferraro
The chapel at sunrise at the Center for Benedictine Life at the Monastery of St. Gertrude, Cottonwood, Idaho (Julie A. Ferraro) Over 50 years ago, author Rumer Godden's novel In This House of Brede was published. I've read it many times over the years. Funny thing I discovered recently: Quite a few other people have done likewise.
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Sep 13, 2023 | 
ncronline.org | Margaret Cessna |Oliver Samson |Thomas Scaria |Rhina Guidos
They were difficult stories for anyone to hear, much less talk about. But some of the women religious in the room had come face to face with human trafficking and had heard similar stories before. Both speakers at a seminar against human trafficking — a man and a woman — spoke to the sisters of how love gone wrong led to a nightmare. In the man's case, it was of a wife who had been exhibiting odd behavior. He later found that she had been offering their daughters to men to be sexually abused.
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Sep 13, 2023 | 
ncronline.org | Oliver Samson |Thomas Scaria |Susan Rose Francois |Margaret Cessna
Where have all the flowers gone, long time passing? Where have all the flowers gone, long time ago? —Pete SeegerFacebook reminded me that today is Jeannette's birthday. She died a year ago and her Facebook account is still active. The only good news about that is that every year I will be reminded to think about her on her birthday. Jeannette was my dishwashing partner. It was the '60s, and my first mission after college.
