by Adam Rittermann | May 19, 2020 | Blog
SISTERS OF MARY SUMMON FR. AL’S TOUGHNESS TO BEAT THE VIRUS By Kevin Wells CHALCO, Mexico – It is during these virus-plagued days that Sr. Margie Cheong brings to memory summer evenings from long ago. She’d join Fr. Al and a few other Sisters of Mary on a wide...
by Adam Rittermann | Apr 22, 2020 | Blog
by Adam Rittermann | Mar 28, 2019 | Blog
It is with deep sadness that we share the news that Sister Michaela Kim passed away yesterday. She died peacefully in Busan, South Korea, surrounded by many of her fellow Sisters of Mary. Funeral services will be held this Saturday, March 30. Sister Michaela spent her...
by Josh Cooper | Feb 28, 2019 | Blog
Earlier this month, construction began on our first Village for Children in Africa! The Sisters of Mary were invited to expand their program to Tanzania in the fall of 2017 by Cardinal Polycarp Pengo. He offered the sisters 40 acres of land in his archdiocese in Dar...
by Josh Cooper | Feb 25, 2019 | Blog
World Villages for Children supports the Boystowns and Girlstowns operated by the Sisters of Mary in the Philippines, South Korea, Mexico, Guatemala, Brazil, Honduras, and Tanzania. At these live-in schools, the sisters educate and care for more than 20,000 children...
by Josh Cooper | Feb 19, 2019 | Blog
Our Boystown in Amarateca, Honduras opened in January of 2017 with 242 boys. Over the past two years our programs have grown and we began 2019 with 635 boys attending classes and living together at the Boystown. Later this year, we’ll be beginning an expansion project...
