Discover how Your Legacy can support Respond’s mission to Build Homes and Improve Lives by including a Gift in Your Will

Ireland is facing a severe housing crisis, with more people than ever before experiencing homelessness. This has placed tremendous pressure on services across the country. Respond works tirelessly, with their statutory partners to provide affordable homes and essential community services, helping families and individuals in desperate need. How your gift can make a difference: By…

Life-changing range of gifts launched by Trócaire

Trócaire has launched this year’s range of sustainable and ethical gifts for Christmas. The ‘Gifts of Change’ range receives incredible support every year from people in Ireland and is a fantastic way to contribute to Trócaire’s work in some of the world’s most fragile countries. Over one million life-changing gifts have been purchased by the…

Becoming a voice for the vulnerable

World Mission Sunday A Day of Celebration and Renewed Support for Missions Worldwide Sr Jo McCarthy I was a missionary in a remote part of the Andes mountains in Peru from 1990 to 1993 during the revolutionary campaign carried out by the Shining Path terrorist group, whose aim was to destroy Peru’s governmental and social…

Frontline Report from the Missions – Misean Cara’s 20th Anniversary trip to Kenya

World Mission Sunday A Day of Celebration and Renewed Support for Missions Worldwide In September this year, Misean Cara CEO, John Moffett, journeyed to Kenya for a week, accompanied by the Board Vice-Chair Sr. Josephine McCarthy (Presentation Sisters) as part of a year-long celebration of Misean Cara’s 20th anniversary. They were joined on this special…

Loreto Rumbek is Expanding

World Mission Sunday A Day of Celebration and Renewed Support for Missions Worldwide In 2022, five graduates of Loreto Rumbek, now working mothers in the North of South Sudan, returned to the Loreto School in Rumbek with an exciting proposition. They invited the Sisters to open a new primary school for boys and girls and…

Abortion decriminalised in Jalisco, Mexican cardinal decries ‘murder of innocents’

Cardinal Francisco Robles Ortega, archbishop of Guadalajara, the capital of the Mexican state of Jalisco, spoke out strongly against the recent decision of that state’s Legislature to decriminalise abortion up to 12 weeks of gestation, calling it the “murder of innocents”. Following debate and a vote, the penal code of the state of Jalisco was…