News and Events

03/28/2020, General Government and of various structures.- May our hope in the Lord continue to strengthen us, welcoming the words of Pope Francis in the extra ordinary “Urbi et Orbi” blessing on March 27. "He brings serenity into our storms, because with God life never dies.

03/25/2020, Of various structures.- The reality that we are living in the whole world today, makes us feel the need to communicate and to keep ourselves informed in order to join one another in prayer for the suffering that the world and the Church are going through.

LA VIE, Published on 03/13/2020, Sr. Anne Lécu (http://www.lavie.fr/debats/idees/un-careme-au-temps-du-coronavirus-13-03-2020-104667_679.php).- A Dominican nun and a doctor in prison, Sr. Anne Lécu calls on Christians to be "legitimate" and to implement non-profit health decisions in the name of the common good. But she also offers a deep meditation for these moments of solitude and silence.

Putaendo (Chile), 03/07/2020, Sr. Gabriela Vergara R.- On March 7, 2020 the sisters of the Vice-Province of Aconcagua with a large number of lay people, friends, relatives, missionaries of the Presentation and members of the educational institutions gathered at Marie Poussepin’s College in Putaendo to celebrate the 60 years of the missionary presence of the Congregation in Chile.

Rome (Italy), 03/16/2020, Sr. Maria Escayola and sisters of the communities of Rome.- Dear Sisters: From Rome, we want to thank you for the messages of concern, closeness and prayers of all the sisters, communities, families and friends worried about the well-being of each sister present in Italy, a country strongly affected by Covid-19.

Indiranagar, Bangalore (India), 03/12/2020, Community of Dourdan.- To mark the celebration of the 25th anniversary of the beatification of our Mother Foundress Blessed Marie Poussepin, the social apostle of charity the Province of India being true to the call of the Gospel to live love of God expressed in mercy towards neighbor, specially the poor, has begun a Soup Kitchen at Dourdan Community, Bangalore under our social work project ‘PATH’.

Bogotá (Colombia), 03/06/2020, Sr. María Leonor Charria Angulo, OP.- Pope Francis published the Post-Synodal Exhortation entitled ‘Querida Amazonia’, (Beloved Amazon Region) on February 12, 2019, as the end result of the Synod of Bishops for the Pan-Amazon Region "The Amazon: New Paths for the Church and for an Integral Ecology held in Rome from October 6 to 27, 2019. 

Manizales (Colombia), 08/02/20, Sr. María Elizabeth Caicedo Caicedo, Principal.-On December 9, 2019, the Ministry of National Education granted the High-Quality Institutional Accreditation to the Catholic University of Manizales for four years, through Resolution No. 013600.

Interprovincial novitiate Villa Clara, Manizales (Colombia), 02/02/2020, Sr. Irma Jiménez Afanador, mistress of novices.- On this feast of the presentation of the Lord in the temple and the celebration of the day of consecrated life, Villa Clara interprovincial novitiate welcomed a new group of novices. The Congregation accepted to accompany these eight young women who with a generous disposition was attracted by the project of God in their life and wanted to continue their process of formation in their search and discernment to make a choice for life in the Charism of Blessed Marie Poussepin.