Through a striking art installation, actress Emma Thompson chronicles the story of a naive 18-year-old from a small Eastern European republic who was caught up in London’s sex trade. Her name is Elena, and her story makes its debut in New York on Nov. 10. This art installation will be in Washington Square Park, New [...]

A quick look at some of the work done by Father Rick Frechette in the slums of Haiti.

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Five women were paraded naked, beaten and forced to eat human excrement by villagers after being branded as witches in in a remote village in Deoghar district in India’s Jharkhand state.  Local police said the victims were Muslim widows who had been labelled as witches by a local cleric.
This is a very disturbing story, [...]

Today’s briefing for NGOs at the United Nations was part of the Department of Public Information’s (DPI) Faith Series, “Islam and its Message of Peace and Understanding among Civilizations.
I was particularly impressed with one of the speakers: Dr. Shirin Ebadi.  She is a human rights lawyer and activist from Iran,  and was the 2003 Nobel [...]

I haven’t written in a while because I was visiting our community in Argentina. I lived with our sisters in the shanty towns that ring Buenos Aires and went up to the north of the country to visit Corrientes.
In Corrientes I met some amazing young people who try to help the people who live in [...]

A new family centered approach to maternal and newborn child care piloted in the Hospital Ramón Sarda in Buenos Aries is decreasing neo-natal mortality and will be replicated on a massive scale by UNICEF around the world.
Dr. Miguel Larguia, who has been with the hospital for 40 years, is the person responsible for the new approach.
“The [...]

The Congregation began small, a little seed sown in Manchester in 1851. But from the beginning Elizabeth dreamt of an international missionary congregation limited only by the limits of the earth....

Todays ministries:
Today we find Cross and Passion Sisters ministering to people as far apart as North America and Africa, Papua New Guinea and Peru, Chile and Jamaica, Argentina and Australia, Ire...

Elizabeth Prouts Institute was a new venture. The Sisters lived in community combining a humble, austere and prayerful life with an active ministry outside the convent. Anyone who was truly virtuous and could work for the support of the Institute could be admitted. There was no class distinction among members.
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The Sisters of the Cross and Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ, had its origin in Manchester, England during the 19th century. Its foundress, Mother Mary Joseph was a young woman who converted to Catholicism at the time the first Passionist missionaries arrived in England. It arose out of the areas on the margins of the city, from the poor and for the poor of their times.
In recent years, searching in fidelity to our origins, we desire to deepen our option to continue growing in solidarity with the crucified

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Here is a new video about Elizabeth Prout, Foundress of the Passionist Sisters made by the sisters in England.
In the mid-nineteenth century, Elizabeth Prout, with the help of Passionist Fathers Gaudentius Rossi and Ignatius Spencer, founded the Sisters of the Cross and Passion, a [...]

United Nations, New York, 16 June 2009 - The Executive Director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), Michel Sidibé says "time is running out" for the world to meet the challe...

In November 2008, we accepted the invitation to visit the Passionist missions in Jamaica, and although benefactors and friends of the community, both of us were a bit anxious knowing that we’d see and experience the country as Jamaicans do, not as tourists.

Every 30 seconds, a little child is inducted into slavery. A drug can only be sold once, but a person can be sold over and over again in the same night, that is why trafficking has become the 2nd most profitable illegal activity in the world.
Multiply that number by the estimated 27 million victims of [...]

Even before the financial melt down, people living in poverty were suffering from rising fuel costs, skyrocketing food prices, and food shortages.
Around the world, before the financial crisis even began -
•    25,000 people (adults and children) were dying every day from hunger and related causes.
•    More than 60 percent of chronically hungry people were and [...]

The UNICEF Executive Board meets this week at UN Headquarters in New York. The Executive Board is the governing body of UNICEF.  It consists of 36 members representing the five regional groups of Member States at the UN. This year the members are from
Africa
Cameroon, Central African Republic, Ethiopia, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Sudan, Zimbabwe
Eastern Europe
Croatia, [...]