Heart to Heart
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The female face of migration in Brazil
By Admin Webmaster 4/19/2024 9:08:50 PMThe exponential increase of foreign women arriving in Brazil poses a challenge for the state and civil society. Various ecclesiastical organizations offer multiple opportunities through training, employment, and support for entrepreneurship.
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From war-torn Cameroon to Marseille: Daniel's journey through hell
By Admin Webmaster 4/9/2024 8:02:09 PMDaniel Bourha, a young Cameroonian Catholic, speaks to Vatican News about his perilous two-year journey to reach Europe. He was participating in MED24, a conference on migration organised by the French Archdiocese of Marseilles.
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Lesotho mothers trying to cope with drug addicted children
By Admin Webmaster 4/8/2024 8:41:54 AMMrs Pontsho Florina Tumisi, a widow and mother of two children is a member of the Saint Anne’s Catholic sodality in Lesotho. When she found herself dealing with her daughters’ drug addiction, she reached out to other mothers facing trials.
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Rami and Bassam: Pope Francis shared our pain
By Admin Webmaster 3/28/2024 10:15:09 AMTwo bereaved fathers, one an Israeli Jew and one a Palestinian Muslim, speak to Vatican News about their meeting with Pope Francis, who thanked them for their witness of fraternity.
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Hope inside a hospital emergency ward
By Admin Webmaster 3/20/2024 9:34:15 AMHow an experience inside an overstretched emergency ward in Rome’s “San Camillo” Hospital gave new meaning to the Parable of the Good Samaritan, and to Pope Francis’ call to be the same.
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Answering a call to social justice
By Admin Webmaster 3/11/2024 10:33:42 PMFor all women religious, responding to a call from God to devote their lives to Him and His work is the beginning of a new life. Sister Elaine Sanchez began her new life caring for children of working-class families at Sisters of the Holy Family Day Homes in California and Nevada.
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The empowerment of four women struggling for peace
By Admin Webmaster 3/8/2024 8:05:31 PMThe four most recent winners of the Zayed Award for Human Fraternity met in Abu Dhabi at the beginning of February and shared their experiences as leaders in different areas of society. They also share with us as women the uniqueness that brings to their work for justice.
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Slavery in the tea plantations of Sri Lanka
By Admin Webmaster 2/29/2024 8:51:21 AMWhen you sip tea, remember what goes into its production: stories of slavery affecting entire families.
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Sri Lanka: A nation’s quest for dignity and future
By Admin Webmaster 2/26/2024 8:56:07 PMThe first episode of a journey visiting the Development Centers coordinated by MAGIS (Movement and Action of Jesuits Together for Development) to support the poorest and most exploited segments of Sri Lanka’s population.
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Ukrainian volunteer: 'We do everything to make sure that life wins'
By Admin Webmaster 2/22/2024 9:26:18 PMIn an interview with Vatican News, a young woman from Kherson recounts her and many of her compatriots' choice to dedicate themselves to helping soldiers on the front lines in this time of war, and explains that volunteering is a relatively new phenomenon for Ukrainians, developed especially in the last two years.
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Cameroon: Sisters of Charity in the fight against poverty and prostitution
By Admin Webmaster 2/15/2024 8:30:02 AMIn Ngaoundal, Cameroon, the nuns of Saint Jeanne Antida Thouret run a women's training centre and two clinics, and according to the sister who runs it "Since we have been here there have been improvements in the condition of women".
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Colombia: Dominican missionary sisters 'looking to the future with hope'
By Admin Webmaster 2/12/2024 6:55:59 PMJust over fifty years ago, three Dominican Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus began a mission in an underprivileged area of Colombia. Today, these sisters are purusing another dream.
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Woman and authority as depicted on 4th century Christian sarcophagi
By Admin Webmaster 2/10/2024 12:17:50 AMReligious life, both contemplative and active, as we know it today, has evolved over two millennia. In this second of four essays, Christine Schenk describes original research into the archaeological evidence for early Christian women found on late 3rd to early 5th century sarcophagus friezes.
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Cadiz: Three migrants who overcame every adversity
By Admin Webmaster 2/9/2024 7:25:03 AMSuffering, personal difficulties, and distance from their families could not break the dreams of Martial and Saleha. These two foreign-born young people have fought tenaciously to build a future in Spain, where, with the help of Catholic Church organizations, they are realizing those dreams.
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Sister Nelly León: Free to live and serve women in prison
By Admin Webmaster 2/2/2024 8:50:34 PMSister Nelly León has dedicated the last 25 years of her life to accompanying female inmates inside and outside prison facilities, creating a foundation that helps women reintegrate into society after serving time. Her testimony and dedication are now recognised worldwide with the 2024 Zayed Award for Human Fraternity.
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The scandal of the youngest migrant who now sets an example in Spain
By Admin Webmaster 1/17/2024 8:16:17 PMMohamed, at just 9 years old, fled his home in Morocco to seek a future in Europe. After passing through various centers for the protection of minors, a community of nuns welcomed him, gave stability to his life, and accompanied him in a human process that today sees him working toward a university master's degree and...
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The applied philosophy of caring
By Admin Webmaster 1/10/2024 10:04:58 AMIn Sicily, Paola Gurrieri, together with her brothers, heads La Mediterranea, a leader in the cultivation of chrysanthemums. The company is the first in Italy to adopt water vapor soil sterilization and to have adopted environmental and social sustainability strategies such as free preventative health screenings for employees and providing housing for foreign workers who, like Italians, are hired on an equal-opportunity basis.
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Ecuador: Alausí in need of aid and hope after landslide
By Admin Webmaster 12/26/2023 6:55:33 PMIn the mountain town of Alausí, in Ecuador, the Oblate Sisters of Saint Francis de Sales run a school, though everything has changed since a landslide on 26 March, with Austrian Sr. Klara-Maria Falzberger regularly visiting the town to bring essential goods and hope.
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UISG: Sisters brought local and marginalised voices to COP28
By Admin Webmaster 12/15/2023 8:50:44 AMReligious sisters brought voices of the local communities and marginalised to the COP28. The conclusion of the UN conference opens complex questions like the one on the fossil fuel lobby, but it also shows determination for planet protection, they say in a statement issued by UISG.
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Threats and opportunities for migrants on Spain’s southern border
By Admin Webmaster 12/14/2023 8:43:07 AMWhile new legislation simplifies the issuing of residence permits for those embarking in formation for work, an enormous Detention Center for undocumented foreigners is under construction in Algeciras. Civil and Church organizations warn that this infrastructure could become a prison for individuals who have committed no crime.
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A startup helps the homeless become gardeners
By Admin Webmaster 12/13/2023 9:45:13 AMItalian computer engineer Lorenzo Di Ciaccio left his job at a big company and used his severance pay to found “Ridaje”. The organization helps poor people care for themselves through work in reclaiming abandoned green areas of Rome. “Nobody can save themselves, but our mission is to save and change the world one garden at a time.”
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Mexico: the art of 'living well' passes through women
By Admin Webmaster 11/28/2023 8:25:02 PMIn our most recent Laudato si' story, we explore a business in Mexico run by indigenous women that combines care for Creation, empowerment of women, and respect for indigenous traditions.
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‘Renascer’: A home in Brazil for pregnant women and victims of abuse
By Admin Webmaster 10/28/2023 7:37:51 AMIn the southern part of Brazil, the Carmelite Sisters Messengers of the Holy Spirit welcome at-risk pregnant women into a group home, offering them “the heart of God that welcomes those society does not want.”
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“God's Chef" cooking millions of meals for poor in South Korea
By Admin Webmaster 10/27/2023 11:07:39 AM“Anna’s House” is celebrating 25 years since it was founded by Italian missionary, Fr. Vincenzo Bordo, OMI, also known as “God’s Chef”, who has served over 30 million meals and saved hundreds of children from the streets.
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Religious women at the forefront of caring for widows and the poor in Nigeria
By Admin Webmaster 10/20/2023 5:06:26 PMIn Africa, in general, while most widows enjoy the protection, provision and support of their families, many still experience hardships and ill-treatment from their relatives upon the death of their husbands. Some of them are abandoned and ostracised. Others have their properties unjustly confiscated by relatives of the deceased husband.
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Christian dentist works to end 'Gospel poverty' in Mongolia
By Admin Webmaster 9/1/2023 9:44:28 PMDr. Amarsaikhan Bazar, director of the Accelerating Ending Gospel Poverty project in Mongolia, recounts his activities in the fields of healthcare and evangelization.
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Verbist Care Center: Nurturing hope for abandoned children in Mongolia
By Admin Webmaster 9/1/2023 9:23:45 AMAs the Mongolian capital, Ulaanbaatar, awaits the arrival of Pope Francis, a beacon of hope shines brightly in the city - the Verbist Care Center (VCC), which provides a sanctuary for poor and abandoned children and is run by the Missionaries of the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
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Pope visits Mongolia 'like Jesus who walks on the periphery'
By Admin Webmaster 9/1/2023 9:19:36 AMPope Francis’s Apostolic Visit to Mongolia, where less than 2 percent of the population is Christian, highlights his closeness to every single member of the flock, especially the weakest. A missionary priest on the outskirts of Ulaanbaatar talks about the joys and challenges of evangelization in a country in which pastors really smell of the sheep.
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Ukraine: A tiny church that became a soup kitchen
By Admin Webmaster 8/9/2023 5:50:31 AMFr. Oleksandr Bilskyi, a Ukrainian Greek Catholic priest, serves a hot meal to over 100 people every day from his tiny church in Beryslav, a southern city occupied for nine months by the Russian army and now depopulated.
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Pablo, who died at 21, to the Pope: 'I will not be at WYD, but follow from Heaven'
By Admin Webmaster 8/2/2023 4:51:29 PMSpanish journalist, Eva Fernandez, delivers letter to Pope Francis from Pablo, a young Spaniard and Carmelite, who passed away at age 21 in July, from cancer, saying that while he will not be at the World Youth Day, he will accompany from Heaven.