Sion Links

International Congregation of Our Lady of Sion - www.notredamedesion.org

Provinces

Communities

Jesuit Volunteer Program - www.jesuitvolunteers.org

Jesuit Volunteer Program

Jesuit volunteers work with Sisters of Sion Project in a barrio in Nicaragua.

UNANIMA - www.unanima-international.org

UNANIMA - Look beneath the surface

Margaret Hughes asks for any information you have received from meetings and actions in your area on "The Trafficking of Women and Children". (margarethu@aol.com) Sion belongs with 15 other Religious Congregations in an NGO Coalition committed to the charter of the UN for the economic and social advancement of all peoples. Recently Stephanie Schmidts went to a day long meeting in Chicago hosted by the Sisters of Christian Charity and the Sisters of the Living Word. "The urgency and terrible statistics on slavery in 2007 moved me to become more involved". Human Slavery in the USA, held by force, fraud or coercion: 50% - sex; 27% - domestic servants; 15% - manufacturing/labor, 8% - other. Sr. Patrice Colleti, a Salvatorian Sister, gave the workshop and belongs to an organization SAVE. Check her Sisters' website (www.sdssisters.org). The official hotline for Trafficking is in 77 languages at 1 888-373-7888.

Vocations.ca - www.vocations.ca
Vision Guide - www.visionguide.org

Rita Gilles suggests reading the book, "The Natasha...The New Global Sex Trade" by Victor Malarek, 2003.

Summer Reading – Audrey Gerwing

Levine, Amy-Jill: The Misunderstood Jew and Greenberg, Irving: For the Sake of Heaven and Earth are books worth reading for anyone involved in Theology, Interfaith work, justice work, or history of anti-Semitism. Levine's work is about the man Jesus who has been misunderstood in his life and through the Church's need to define itself as a new entity divorced itself from its roots. The results are and have been catastrophic. Levine shows us, through her eyes as a faithful Jew and a teacher of Theology in a Christian college, just how misunderstood Christianity has made Jesus. It can be found on Amazon.com.

Rabbi Irving Greenberg's book is a must for anyone interested in furthering the work in Jewish-Christian relations. He puts a huge challenge to both the Jewish community and Christianity to see how intertwined their roots are; both need the other for the world to be healed (Tikkun Olam). Greenberg's book can also be found on Amazon.com.