National Guard preserves history of Hansen’s Disease Center
A drive along Point Clair Road can feel like a journey back in time. Many of the buildings, walkways and spreading live oaks look as if they’re preserved in amber.
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by bcadmin | Oct 1, 2022 | Associated Press, Church in the US, Daughters of Charity, Disease, Louisiana, News | 0 |
A drive along Point Clair Road can feel like a journey back in time. Many of the buildings, walkways and spreading live oaks look as if they’re preserved in amber.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 1, 2022 | Associated Press, Church in the US, Daughters of Charity, Disease, Louisiana, News | 0 |
A drive along Point Clair Road can feel like a journey back in time. Many of the buildings, walkways and spreading live oaks look as if they’re preserved in amber.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 2, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Church in Africa, Daughters of Charity, Ethiopia, News, Ukraine Crisis | 0 |
In Alitena, a remote village in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region, the Daughters of Charity host a traditional coffee ceremony for women in the community.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 19, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Church in Africa, Daughters of Charity, Hospice, Kenya, News, Palliative Care, St. Vincent de Paul | 0 |
Michael Kamau Mathini is convinced that his father lived as long as he did because of the quality of care he received at Our Lady Hospice-Thigio, run by the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent De Paul.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 16, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Catholic nuns, Church History, Church in the US, Daughters of Charity, Maryland, News, Racial justice, Religious Sisters, slavery | 0 |
New research from public records and congregation and diocesan archives has found that six congregations of the Sisters of Charity Federation have predecessors who owned slaves.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 22, 2021 | Catholic News Service, Daughters of Charity, Daughters of St. Paul, News, Pope Francis, Vatican | 0 |
Pope Francis urged the Daughters of Charity to help secure fundamental rights for those they care for, help safeguard creation and pass on Christian values to young people.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 23, 2020 | Children with disabilities, COVID-19 pandemic, Daughters of Charity, Ghana, Kumasi Archdiocese, News, Nigerian nun, Sister Olivia Umoh, U.S. & World News, World Health Organization | 0 |
A Nigerian nun working in Ghana urged parents of children with disabilities to see their situation as gift from God and not a curse.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 9, 2020 | Books, Catholic Church, Church History, Daughters of Charity, DePaul University, History, Interviews, lead, News, Nuns, Religious Sisters, St. Vincent de Paul | 0 |
The Daughters of Charity were a centralized and hierarchical order, under the authority of an elected superior general. This new model gave a strong unity to the sisters trained and used to act in the same way.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 19, 2020 | Beirut, Catholic News Service, Church in the Middle East, Daughters of Charity, Lebanon, News | 0 |
Aug. 4, the day of a massive explosion in the port of Beirut is one U.S. Daughter of Charity Sister Ann Sauvé won’t easily forget.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 12, 2020 | Catholic Church, Catholic healthcare, Catholic News Service, Church in Africa, Daughters of Charity, Leprosy, News, Nigeria, Religious Sisters, tuberculosis | 0 |
Nigeria has seen an increase in the rates of tuberculosis and Hansen’s disease. Late diagnosis and lack of effective tools for prevention and treatment have contributed to the lack of an effective model to predict their spread.
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