The Sisters of St. Joseph of Orange have created a prayer resource called “100 Days of Prayer” for the first 100 days after the inauguration. “The idea is to include a daily prayer in keeping with the new administration’s first 100 days in office. The content encourages unity and reconciliation and offers support to people […]
The following is an official statement by the Dominican Sisters Conference on the executive order that “rolls back the Clean Power Plan and encourages increased coal production.” Dominican Sisters in the U.S.A. have been actively addressing climate change since the late 1980s. In 2015, we commissioned four Dominican Sisters to represent us at the Paris […]
Below please find a Joint Public Statement issued by the Dominican Sisters Conference and the North American Promoters of Justice, and links to additional public statements, Denouncing President Donald Trump’s Ban of Immigrants. We, the Dominican Sisters Conference and the Dominican Justice Promoters in the U.S., are appalled by President Trump’s recent executive order. This nation has […]
The Dominican Sisters Conference is sharing the statement of the Adrian Dominican Sisters on an executive order to advance construction of oil pipelines. In response to executive actions signed by President Donald Trump to advance the construction of the Keystone XL and Dakota Access oil pipelines, the General Council of the Adrian Dominican Sisters has […]
Below, please find a message and link from Margaret Mayce, O.P. (DLC/NGO Representative to the United Nations) regarding the Human Rights to Water and Sanitation toolkit. In conjunction with International Human Rights Day on December 10th, several of our partner organizations (Blue Planet Project, FLOW-For the Love of Water, Canadian Union of Public Employees, KruHa Indonesia and […]
Below is a YouTube video showing the Dominican Sisters of St. Catherine of Siena, Iraq, return to what’s left of their homes and their church. In the video, Sister Luma Khudr is interviewed.
On September 20, the Dominican Sisters Conference issued a public statement on opposing the Dakota Access Pipeline, calling into question “the assertion that fracking is a safe means of extracting and transporting fossil fuelsracist systems that wound our nation.” Here is the text. Also, below there is a prayer for Standing Rock and reflections by the […]
On July 26, the Dominican Sisters Conference issued a public statement on eradicacting race-based violence, calling for “personal and national soul-searching” as a step toward eradicating the racist systems that wound our nation. Here is the text: We are deeply pained and outraged at the increase in the number of police killings of innocent African […]
Below is a printable worship aid for a novena to pray for the Dominican family in Iraq, available in four languages. From the beginning of the sheet: On the night of August 6, 2014, Daesch (ISIS) swept across the Nineveh Plain of northern Iraq causing hundreds of thousands to flee to relative safety in the Kurdish […]
Following is the an official statement by the Dominican Sisters Conference in response to the Murders of Members of the LGBTQ Community in Orlando, FL, given on 16 June 2016: The Dominican Sisters Conference (which unites 19 congregations of Dominican Sisters in the U.S.) joins its voice with all who stand against the violence brought on the LGBTQ community […]
The Dominican Sisters of St. Catherine of Siena, Iraq, will be having their Chapter from July 1 – 10, 2016. We invite you to print out this prayer and join them in prayer. Download the image here for printing with the artwork. Text: Jesus touched their eyes. Immediately they received their sight and followed him. (Matthew 20:34) […]
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