Tag Archives: Sisters in Africa

Here’s a nice little video in French featuring our sister Monique Vien, interviewed by one of Quebec’s most popular artists, Mariana Mazza, who is also known for her legendary fieriness! The young comedian, actress and author Mariana has quite a life story! Born in Quebec to a Lebanese mother and Uruguayan father, she also has Italian and Brazilian grandparents and a Quebec father-in-law. A multicultural environment that echoes our congregation, with sisters of 30 different nationalities!   Monique Vien, 50 years older than Mariana, and with experience accumulated in her apostolate in Zambia, Malawi and Algeria (among others), stands up to her in a humorous interview that is also full of truth and tenderness.    

  Shared by Philogène TEBABO LINGANAISO, postulant   I would like to share with you my experience at the Pan Bila center of Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso. I started my apostolate there in June 2024. This center welcomes single mothers or those who have fled a forced marriage. The aim is to reunite them with their families or to study and become responsible and assume their role in society.   In our country Burkina Faso, there is a tribe where, according to its culture, if a girl becomes pregnant out of wedlock, her family will chase her away. She cannot meet her father or brothers until she gives birth; if she does it is believed that they will die. At first, it was a little difficult for me to work with these girls because of the language barrier and it was also difficult to gain their trust, so the only…

Read more