A Christian mother holds her baby Oct. 15 in a camp for displaced people at a Catholic school in Manduamas, Indonesia. Indonesian police said more than 4,000 Aceh residents fled to North Sumatra following attacks by Islamic groups and the burning of two churches. (CNS photo / Hotli Simanjuntak, EPA)
“To secure this divine peace for ourselves and procure its blessings for others in the midst of the sin, turmoil and restless anxiety of this modern world is the object of your institute.”
- Bishop Edward Bagshawe, Bishop of Nottingham at the profession of the first Sister of St. Joseph of Peace in 1884, as quoted by Susan Rose Francois in Securing Peace, published on Global Sisters Report
