Actions for
Justice Around the World
For more information about the justice actions of Presentation Sisters, San
Francisco, please call (415) 422-5001.
Global Justice Actions
On November 14, 2007, nearly one hundred Presentation Sisters from around
the world gathered in Bangalore, India, for the weeklong Fifth International
Presentation Association (IPA) Assembly.
After listening to one another, listening to the movement of the Spirit
through prayer and ritual, listening to others’ voices, and listening to the
needs of Earth, the Assembly participants set the following directions for
mission.
Directions for Mission
Conscious of our identity as Presentation women, we listen deeply to the cry
of Earth heard most loudly in the cry of those made poor and we are moved to
attend with urgency to the woundedness of our global community.
In this critical time, it is imperative that we find ways to ensure that
human dignity is everywhere upheld and honored and that we name, challenge,
and seek to change the systems and lifestyles in which we are complicit and
which contribute to the present extremes of poverty and wealth and the
degradation of Earth.
Therefore, we will address the root causes of poverty, especially
confronting personal and corporate greed which exploit Earth, her peoples,
and the whole community of life.
The International Presentation Association (IPA) began as an idea among the
Presentation Superiors General during an informal meeting in Rome in May of
1981. The first international assembly was held in Melbourne,
Australia, in January 1984.
The IPA is made up of the three units of Presentation Sisters around the
world. Those three units are the Union of Presentation Sisters which
has Sisters in Ireland, England, the United States, Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru,
New Zealand, the Philippines, Pakistan, India, Zambia, and Zimbabwe; the
North American Conference with separate congregations in Aberdeen, South
Dakota; Dubuque, Iowa; Fargo, North Dakota; Newfoundland and Labrador,
Canada; New Windsor, New York; San Francisco, California; Staten Island, New
York; and the United States Province of the Union of Presentation Sisters;
and the Australian Society with separate congregations in Lismore,
Queensland; Tasmania; Victoria; Wagga Wagga; Western Australia; and a
Society joint foundation in Papua, New Guinea.
For more information on the International Presentation Association, go to
www.ipa.ozehosting.com. For more information and photographs on
the Assembly held in November, click on the button on the homepage, Assembly
2007.
United Nations Non Government Agency
The International Presentation Association (IPA)
is a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) at the United Nations. Sister Fatima
Rodrigo, a Presentation Sister from India, is the Presentation NGO
representative at the United Nations. The IPA has identified areas of concern
and action for Sister Fatima’s work: women and children, indigenous peoples,
environmental/sustainable living, and human rights. Within these focus areas,
Sister Fatima provides information and expresses the Presentation point of view
to United Nations representatives, panels, and committees.
Sisters
of the Presentation
Stand in Opposition to the Death Penalty
The Sisters of the Presentation support a consistent ethic of life,
believing that all life is sacred from the moment it begins until its
natural death. As Sisters of the Presentation, we place a priority
on dealing with the issues of violence on all levels. The death penalty
promotes the idea that the life of the perpetrator is no longer sacred.
We believe that those who are guilty, even of the most heinous crimes,
are still sacred in the eyes of God. We believe that all persons
are redeemable and loved by God. Knowing that society does not have
other means of protecting itself from those who commit violent crimes,
such as life imprisonment without parole, we believe that the death
penalty is immoral and should be abolished.
Photo Courtesy of
Sacbee.com
Archdiocese of
San Francisco Life and Justice Office
Leadership Conference of Women
Religious with all its organization's links
Jericho with all its
organization's links
United
Nations Website with all its organization's links
Freedom Forum, a
non-partisan news and discussion group on amendment issues
Various Social Justice links featured
here:
http://www.justpeace.org
ICCR.org
for responsible investing information
Women Watch providing current information on the work of
the United Nations on behalf of women of the world.
Catholic
Migrant Farmworker Movement action and issue-oriented site.
Pax Christi USA US branch of international Catholic peace and
nonviolence movement.
School of
the Americas Watch updating the national efforts to shut down the
School of the Americas.
Jubilee 2000 giving information on action for debt relief.
