The Barbara Ford Peace Center
Under the guidance of Luciano Laynez, the Barbara Ford Peacebuilding Center promotes integrated human and spiritual development by offering programs of all types; social, spiritual, educational, cultural, political, and judicial. Offered to individuals, families and communities, the programs empower them to be agents of change for transformation of themselves and society in order that they may live lives that are just, dignified and in harmony with themselves and the cosmos.
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Updates from Guatemala
A Lifetime of Love and Service: Congratulations, Sr. Maria Pablo
With joy and gratitude, we congratulate Sister Maria Pablo Andres Santos on her perpetual vows as a Sister of Charity of New York! On Saturday, at St. Peter the Apostle Parish in Soloma, Guatemala, Sr. Maria Pablo made her lifetime commitment before Sr. Donna Dodge,...
Living Laudato Si’ at the Barbara Ford Peacebuilding Center
https://youtu.be/sKGhJIFkMIQ?si=1ke_uUjLxBtA5OpV Watch the short video on our YouTube Channel As Laudato Si’ Week draws to a close, we are reminded that the call to care for our Common Home is not a one-time event—it’s a way of life. Nowhere is this more powerfully...
Barbara Ford Peacebuilding Center: Charity Rises in Guatemala
By Luciano Laynez, Executive Director, The Barbara Ford Peacebuilding Center The Barbara Ford Peacebuilding Center is a non-profit Civil Association, established in the Republic of Guatemala in 2009 with the objective of promoting the integral human development of the...
One Community Dialog: Walking together as Church – Sisters and Associates in the US and Guatemala prepare for the Synod on Synodality
By Lisa Shay, Associate Zoom discussion on Synod 2021 – 2023. March 8, 2022 On March 8, 34 Sisters, Associates, and Companions of Charity gathered via Zoom to explore the “fundamental questions” of Synod 2021 – 2023, “For a synodal Church – communion, participation,...
A Double Celebration in Quiché
By Nora Cunningham, SC The following is from the Winter 2022 issue of VISION. The Feast of St. Elizabeth Seton was celebrated with much joy in Guatemala on January 4, 2022. It was a doubly happy and blessed occasion as we welcomed our new postulant, Mayda Alicia Pérez...
Heart of a Missionary — Sisters Missioned in Guatemala
The following is from the Summer 2021 issue of Vision. Since 1971, seventeen Sisters of Charity from the U.S. have served in Guatemala in the fields of health care, religious education, pastoral care, formation, and integrated human and spiritual development....
