Cluny Sisters Support Declaration

In the 2012 General Chapter document on Global Concerns, Cluny Sisters around the world commit to working toward the end of 'Slavery in our time': As Sisters of St. Joseph of Cluny we 'commit ourselves to fight
 against slavery in our world promoting the dignity of each person'.

For the first time in history, the leaders of the world's major religions gathered together in the Vatican this morning with the aim of eliminating modern slavery.

Joint Declaration of Religious Leaders Against Modern Slavery: 

     

We, the undersigned, are gathered here today for a historic initiative to inspire spiritual and practical action by all global faiths and people of good will everywhere to eradicate modern slavery across the world by 2020 and for all time. In the eyes of God*, each human being is a free person, whether girl, boy, woman or man, and is destined to exist for the good of all in equality and fraternity. Modern slavery, in terms of human trafficking, forced labour and prostitution, organ trafficking, and any relationship that fails to respect the fundamental conviction that all people are equal and have the same freedom and dignity, is a crime against humanity. We pledge ourselves here today to do all in our power, within our faith communities and beyond, to work together for the freedom of all those who are enslaved and trafficked so that their future may be restored. Today we have the opportunity, awareness, wisdom, innovation and technology to achieve this human and moral imperative.        *The Grand Imam of Al Azhar uses the word “religions”.

   

Click here for the full text of Pope Francis’ address

Signatories:

     

Pope Francis

Her Holiness Mata Amritanandamayi (Amma)

Venerable Bhikkhuni Thich Nu Chan Khong (representing Zen Master Thích Nhất Hạnh)

The Most Ven. Datuk K Sri Dhammaratana, Chief High Priest of Malaysia

Rabbi Dr. Abraham Skorka

Rabbi Dr. David Rosen

Dr. Abbas Abdalla Abbas Soliman, Undersecretary of State of Al Azhar Alsharif (representing Mohamed

Ahmed El-Tayeb, Grand Imam of Al-Azhar)

Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Taqi al-Modarresi

Sheikh Naziyah Razzaq Jaafar, Special advisor of Grand Ayatollah (representing Grand Ayatollah Sheikh

Basheer Hussain al Najafi

Sheikh Omar Abboud

Most Revd and Right Hon Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury

His Eminence Metropolitan Emmanuel of France (representing His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch

Bartholomew)

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Cluny Celebrates 25 Years in Ghana

Congratulations on your 25 years of service in Ghana... daughters of Blessed Anne Marie Javouhey. Special good wishes to Sisters Margaret, Juliet and Gertrude.

Cluny Sisters launching 25th anniversary in Ghana, @ Domeabra. Lord we thank you.

Stop Trafficking! Nov and Dec 2014 Newsletters

Awareness : 

• Labor Abuse: Foreign and Domestic:
• Comic Book Tells the Story
• Saudi Arabia's Domestic Workers
• Justice for CA Domestic Workers
• Hell on a Boat
• Illegal Fishing and Human Traficking
• Thailand Food Industry Exposed

Advocacy   :

• Study: Labor Trafficking in the U.S.
• The Newly Updated Task Force e-Guide

Action         :

• Supply Chain Transparency - a bill that would require companies to report measures to prevent human trafficking in their supply chain to the SEC.
• Global Modern Slavery Directory
• Student Online Educational Opportunity for Catholic 7th and 8th grade students
• Correcting Business Supply Chain Abuses with software for businesses that identifies "hot spots of risk in a supply chain for any industry"
• The Work of 'PositivesNegatives' to bring awareness through literary comics that accurately tell stories of social human rights issues
• Learn More About the California Domestic Worker Bill of Rights

Click here for November's Newsletter

December

Awareness : 

• Shining Fresh Lights on Human Trafficking
• Online Prostitution and Trafficking
• Life Interrupted: Trafficking into Forced Labor in the U.S.
• Canada Adopts the 'Nordic Model' in Countering Prostitution

Advocacy   :

• Concern for Trafficked Victims
• U.S. Five Year Plan to Aid Victims
• U.N.: '2014 Global Report on Trafficking in Persons'
• Efforts to Aid Exploited Foreign Workers
• Scholarships for Trafficked Survivors
• Wyndham Hotel Group Advocates for Trafficked Victims

Click here for December's Newsletter 

Year of Consecrated Life

Rejoice!

Pope Francis has dedicated the year 2015

to 

Consecrated Life.

 

The Year of Consecrated Life begins on the first Sunday of Advent, November 30, 2014 and will conclude on February 2, 2016, the World Day of Prayer for Consecrated Life

The celebrations of the year will focus on:

 

Thanking God for the gift of consecrated life.

Embracing the future with hope, trusting in the Lord, to whom they offer all their consecrated life.

Living the present with passion, evangelizing their own vocation and witnessing to the world the beauty of following Christ in the various ways in which consecrated life is expressed.

We invite you to pray for Cluny Sisters vocations throughout the world this year.

Prayer for the Year of Consecrated Life

O God, throughout the ages you have called women and men to pursue lives of perfect charity through the evangelical counsels of poverty, chastity, and obedience. During this Year of Consecrated Life, we give you thanks for these courageous witnesses of Faith and models of inspiration. Their pursuit of holy lives teaches us to make a more perfect offering of ourselves to you. Continue to enrich your Church by calling forth sons and daughters who, having found the pearl of great price, treasure the Kingdom of Heaven above all things. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

 

 

 

 

 

Cluny Around the World Share Global Concerns

Follow the link to learn what the global concerns are and what action is taking place to address them. Be sure to share the link and like the page.

Cluny Global Concerns Committee