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Last week, Nada, a member of our City of Charity Project in Bethlehem passed away. Nada came to live with us in 2009. She was a prized member of our community for more than 15 years! In the #CityofCharity project, we care for many individuals with disabilities, like Nada. It is our great joy...

“If you can’t feed a hundred people, feed just one.” -Mother Teresa This winter, SSVM Missions hosted a charity dinner for the community in Odessa, Ukraine. Throughout the three years of war in Ukraine, SSVM Missions has not ceased to work to help those most in need and to bring hope and joy...

Across the world, many are striving for greater personal responsibility; to do more, learn more, and have more so that they might increase their personal worth. yet at the same time, so many live amid conditions which frustrate their legitimate desires. We want to do all that we can to help these...

The progressive development of peoples is a deep concern and interest of ours. At SSVM Missions, we move across the world in order to accompany those who are trying to escape the ravages of hunger, poverty, endemic disease and ignorance. We desire to live among those who are seeking a larger share...

Mother Teresa said, “Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.”  At SSVM Missions, we work to support integral human development by providing for each individual´s material...

Our sisters in Macau held a formation day for teachers. When we teach others, it is a great good. But it is an even greater good to be able to teach those who will later teach others. In the Foundations Project, many of our sisters teach, and even more of our sisters study, so that… Read...

On coming into the world, man is not equipped with everything he needs for developing his bodily and spiritual life. He needs others. No man is an island. Each person depends on their family, friends, and society. Each individual has differences tied to their age, physical abilities, intellectual...

Each and every human being has equal dignity because each and every individual is a person, unique and unrepeatable. This equal dignity as persons demands that we strive for fairer and more humane conditions. “Excessive economic and social disparity between individuals and peoples of the one...

Every human person, created in the image of God, has the natural right to be recognized as a free and responsible being. All owe to each other this duty of respect. the right to the exercise of freedom is an inalienable requirement of the dignity of the human person.  At SSVM Missions, we love...