Author Archives: Alessandra Ferri

  On January 12, 2025, we were happy to celebrate the Berber New Year called “Yennayer”. In fact, for several years, our community of Hydra-Alger has been celebrating this day with the friends of the White Sisters of yesterday and today. This year, more than 30 women responded with joy to our invitation. Each of them brought something to share with the others. It is always a great joy for them to meet to exchange their news and remember our sisters from Saint Charles to the present day.   For this year’s celebration, we were able to find about 40 names of former Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of Africa and 10 current sisters  present in the country. This made sharing easier, because we could remember some of them by seeing their photo or name. We began with a time when each one spoke, to express their wish for the new…

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  The entire period of the Jubilee 2025 is characterised by a rich calendar of religious, cultural and social events. The Holy Year programme includes several ‘jubilees’ dedicated to different categories of people, identified according to their profession or their role within the family, the Church and society. The two days of 8 and 9 March are dedicated to the world of volunteering, as a reminder of the role played by non-profit organisations, NGOs, social workers and volunteers from all associations working for the benefit of the community. Today we also want to remember and thank all the volunteers with whom we continue to work on various projects. We do so with an article by our sister Elisabeth Biela, who has left her role in the Karlsruhe community as leader of the refugee ministry in collaboration with many other Christian and lay associations. Here are her thoughts on the occasion of…

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