Community of missionary nuns launches new Web on their life, ministry

Published: 2006-06-30

PHILADELPHIA (CNS) -- The Missionary Sisters of the Holy Rosary in Philadelphia have created the Web site www.holyrosarysisters.org about their life and ministry to help others understand what it is like to be a missionary living and working with the poor around the world. "One cannot express the joy we feel in working alongside the people of God in so many wonderful cultures," said Sister Monica Devine, the congregational leader. "The Holy Spirit guides all of us as we come together in good works responding to the diverse needs of many. It is wonderful to know we can share our spiritual journey with so many others on the Internet." The community was begun by eight women in 1924 to help women and children in Nigeria. Today it has 380 members working in 15 countries in the Americas, Africa and Europe. They opened a new mission in Liberia to aid refugees.

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