Inter-Faith Gathering

Aug 1, 2006 | Justice, Peace

A sizeable crowd showed up to Memorial Hall on May 24th to take part in an Inter-Faith Gathering to discuss Religious Faiths and the Poor: Call and Response. Those who have faith and do righteous deeds, – they are the best of creatures. Qur’an, 98:7 A sizeable crowd...

Welcome Tara

Aug 1, 2006 | Justice

Tara Kainer joins the staff at Providence Motherhouse as the executive assistant to the Co-Director of the Justice and Peace Office Who knows how we become the people we are? I can’t say for sure what happened to turn my attention to social justice, or why I’m...

Sister Ann Sullivan

Jun 4, 2006 | Obituaries

Mary Anne Sullivan was born in Arnprior on February 3, 1922, one of 5 children of John Sullivan and Mabel Dorion. By the time she was six years old Anne had lost both parents. Her maternal grandmother and her uncle devoted themselves to bringing up the five Sullivan...

Sister Mary Moderwell

Apr 1, 2006 | Obituaries

Mary Catherine was the second of five children born to William Moderwell and Catherine Casey on January 14, 1919 in Edmonton, Alberta. Four girls and one boy were a happy family in spite of the hardships of the “dirty thirties”. Her brother, Ken, was a pilot in World...

What is Trafficking?

Jan 13, 2006 | Healing Violence stories

Trafficking in persons means the recruitment, transportation, harbouring and trade of persons, by means of threats, force, abduction, fraud, deception, and abuse of power for the purpose of exploitation. That exploitation may be sexual, forced slave labour, or even...