2/07/2015

Bearing witness, being church: Dominican sisters in Iraq

Please read this post published on National Catholic Reporter
February 7-8, 2015
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By Dawn Cherie Araujo  

In the middle of makeshift refugee camps, the Dominican Sisters of St. Catherine of Siena are trying to make life work. They get up every morning for prayer, and then they spend the rest of the day visiting the thousands of Iraqi refugees living in the abandoned malls and unfinished construction sites of Erbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan. The sisters would like to open schools for the children, but for now they're making do with a Montessori kindergarten that's run out of an apartment.

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