Guatemala Mission

“It is our duty to prefer the service of the poor to everything else and to offer such service as quickly as possible. Charity is certainly greater than any rule.”

St. Vincent de Paul

Serving those Living in Poverty and the Disenfranchised

Wherever We Are Needed…
The Sisters of Charity of New York serve those living in poverty and the disenfranchised…and we do so wherever we are needed. Our roots are in the New York metropolitan area, where a majority of our ministries are performed. However, we have also responded with enthusiasm to the call to serve God’s needy people in distant cities, states, and countries.

Guatemala (Novillero, Ixtahuacan, and Nahuala)
Today we have six Sisters ministering to the people of Guatemala. Our Sisters prepare lay catechists and Eucharistic ministers in Pacaxom, where the benefactors of the Sisters of Charity helped to build the local church and a preschool.

Diocese of Quiche
In the diocese of Quiche, Sister Virginia Searing has coordinated a mental health program for indigenous Mayan people to heal their memories of torture and the disappearance and killing of family members during the long civil war.

Updates from Guatemala

Tragedy in Guatemala

Tragedy in Guatemala

by | Jun 6, 2018 | ,

Dear Friends: All of Guatemala is in mourning over the tragedy of the eruption of one of its most active volcanoes, Volcán Fuego (Volcano of Fire). Without warning, its pyroclastic flow swallowed up villages and homes, leaving mostly women and children running for...

Growing Mission in Guatemala

Growing Mission in Guatemala

by | Jan 12, 2017 | ,

Sister Jane Iannucelli, President, and Sister Mary Ann Daly, Regional Coordinator, traveled to Quiché Guatemala on December 31, 2016 to join Sisters Nora Cunningham, Gloria De Arteaga, Rosenda Castañeda Gonzalez, Virginia Searing, and Marie Tolle for a Mass and...

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