Author: danielafsp

Africa’s Technological Invention Award 2020 Goes to a Woman

Twenty-six-year old-year-old Charlette N’Guessan, a citizen of Ghana, has won the 2020 Royal Academy of Engineering’s Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation. She is the first woman to win this prize, conferred in recognition of her invention of Bace Api, a digital verification system that uses artificial intelligence and facial recognition to verify the identities of…

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August 2020

Giuseppina – Maria Leontina SERUSI / Hermelinda – Maria José PEGORER / Gemma – Maris Stella MENEGAT / Enrica – Maria Imelde FELICANI / Angela EVANGELISTA / Fidencia – Maria Michelina BRONDIAL

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Days of Tribulation

The days of tribulation that we are experiencing have given a central role to communication, both with regard to tackling the health crisis today and giving a new shape to the future. We can only imagine what isolation would have been like without the possibility of communicating! Let’s imagine what the world would be like… Read more »

PAKISTAN
A Joyful Return to the Community

We are delighted to share with you the message sent to us by our Pakistani postulants: Dashi, Rabishna, Maria and Tomsina, who say: “We are grateful first of all to the Lord for the trust and assistance he gave to our families, friends, the Daughters of St. Paul and ourselves, protecting us from the danger… Read more »

UNITED STATES
Virtual Story Time

The sisters in our book center in St. Louis, Missouri, held a virtual story hour to reach out to children and families. The event lasted a week, Monday to Friday, from 10:30-11:15 a.m. The sisters report: “We used a combination of Zoom and YouTube, reading stories here in St. Louis as well as using our… Read more »

Forgiveness

Pope Francis

Forgiveness is itself a process of communication. When contrition is expressed and accepted, it becomes possible to restore and rebuild the communication which broke down. Pope Francis

Catitablet: app for reading the Bible in local languages

Catitablet is an initiative launched by the Catholic Church of Angola during the Covid-19 pandemic to enable people to read the fundamental texts of the Church not only in paper format but also on mobile devices. On 4 August, the Local Church presented to the public its latest project, entitled The Catechism via Tablet–a…

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ARGENTINA
Children’s Book Fair

From 20-31 July, Argentina’s Fundación El Libro held a virtual edition of its annual Book Fair for Children and Youth–an initiative that contributes to the cultural and educational formation of the younger generation by encouraging them to develop early in life a positive relationship with books in an atmosphere of joy and fun. …

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Neighbourliness

Pope Francis

How, can communication be at the service of an authentic culture of encounter? What does it mean for us, as disciples of the Lord, to encounter others in the light of the Gospel? In spite of our own limitations and sinfulness, how do we draw truly close to one another? These questions are summed up… Read more »