We all know that more than a million people escaped war and torture this year; they are refugees. (Please don’t tune me out just yet! Stay with me…) We are all also aware of some folks espousing the shutting down of our borders because people are fleeing war and...
When Dr. Alejandro Ortiz Alvarez was around ten years old, his family needed some help sending him to school. In his home in Nicaragua, he learned about the North Country Mission of Hope, a nonprofit organization committed to fostering hope and empowering...
When Dominican Sister of Hope Debbie Blow heard of the current food shortage in Venezuela, she knew she had to do something. Through Sister’s ministry to the poor in Nicaragua, she has befriended sisters throughout Central America. Recently, as the food shortage...
Today, we bear ashes on our foreheads, given with the whisper, “You are dust, and to dust you shall return.” On Ash Wednesday, the message of ashes is more pertinent than ever. Ashes are more than an Ash-Wednesday sign of our Christianity and our belief in...
While in Nicaragua last week and also, last year, some of us had the blessing of meeting Josefa, a woman who has conquered many odds, risked her life multiple times for other women and children, and who has now established a safe house for women in Nicaragua. This...
