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Urabá Region (Colombia), 04/06/2919, Sr. Carolina María Agudelo A.- COMPARTIR was founded in 1994at a time when Urabá became the epicenter of the armed conflict in Colombia. Social problems derived from political violence increased and the victims were in urgent need of medical attention. For this reason, Monsignor Isaías Duarte Cancino promoted the creation of an emergency center for the attention to victims of violence, widows and orphans.

México, 03/19/2019, Sr. Georgina González Velásquez.- We thank the Lord for his Provident care throughout these first 40 years of our arrival in Mexican lands. By the missionary audacity of our first sisters Leonor Avellaneda Navas and Maria Lilia Alcira Vacca Avila sent on mission on March 19 under the paternal protection of Saint Joseph.

Roma (Italy), 04/02/2019, Fr. Jean-Ariel Bauza-Salinas, OP, general secretary.- Dear brothers and sisters of the Dominican Family, you will find attached a message from the Master of the Order inviting you to pray for and reflect on Europe on the occasion of the feast of our sister Saint Catherine of Siena, Co-Patroness of Europe, on 29 April.

Santafé de Bogotá (Colombia), 03/25/2019, Sr. Luz Marina Socha Gómez.- On the solemnity of the Annunciation of our Lord to the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Provincial House was adorned for the feast and for the joy of the first profession of Marierka Milagros Santana Trinidad, of Dominican nationality.

Paris (France), 03/05/2019, Sr. Véronique Margron, president of the Corref; F. Marc Botzung and F. Daniel Federspiel, Vice presidents.- On March 5, the channel ARTE broadcast a documentary on the sexual abuse of which nuns were and are victims. This report is chilling and what it portrays hardly bearable. 

Burkina Faso, 02/05/2019, Srs. d'Africa.- On February 15, 2019. Father Antonio César Fernández lost his life at the age of 73, by the murderous bullets of terrorists in Burkina Faso. He served the Church of Togo, Ivory Coast and Burkina Faso.

Medellín (Colombia), 02/27/2019, Srs. participants.- Delegates of the MCS of the Provinces of Bogotá, Bucaramanga, Manizales, Medellín and Santafé de Bogotá met at Santa Inés Pastoral Center, Province of Medellin on February 23rd and 24th. Sr. Gloria Eugenia Piedrahita Tamayo, coordinator of the commission of MCS of the Congregation was present at this meeting.

(Paris) France, 02/26/2019, editorial staff.- Sr. Veronique Margron, Dominican Sister of the Presentation and first woman president of the Corref (Conference of religious men and women in France) has recently participated in numerous interviews as a result of the cases of abuse of minors by members of the Church and of all the efforts that Pope Francis is making to uncover this scourge, to ask for forgiveness and to seek ways of reparation and devices so that it never happens again.

Philippines, 02/22/2018, The sisters in Philippines Mission.- It was around 2.30pm, Philippines time that we welcomed the Archbishop of Lingayen-Dagupan, Bishop Socrates B Villegas for the celebration. Our event of the day took place in three steps: - The inauguration of the community by the ribbon cutting, - The blessing of the convent, - The celebration of the Holy Eucharist.