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A reflection for Holy Week

By Sister Jeanne Hagelskamp | March 29, 2018 |

‘Let us remember his willingness to give everything, even his life, that justice might prevail on Earth.’

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Alpacas at the library, food justice and bread

By Cheryl Casselman | March 16, 2018 |

Here are some ways White Violet Center for Eco-Justice staff members and Sisters of Providence are teaching, caring and inspiring for all creation in the upcoming weeks: NAACP Food Justice panel discussion, Vigo County Food Summit, alpacas visiting the library and Providence Health Care, and March for Science.

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Mecca of the Midwest by Jan Phillips

By Sisters of Providence | March 8, 2018 |

‘Abundance was all I saw, all I felt.’

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Leadership Team statement regarding Parkland shooting

By Sisters of Providence | February 22, 2018 |

We pray, too, that as individuals, as communities, and as a nation, we will grow in our practice of nonviolence so that, together, we can create a more just a peace-filled society.

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Alaska holiday honors Elizabeth Peratrovich

By Sister Donna Butler | February 15, 2018 |

They experienced discrimination against native indigenous people whose ancestors had lived there for thousands of years

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Celebrating the Feast of Saint Josephine Bakhita

By Sister Barbara Sheehan | February 8, 2018 |

Human trafficking continues and one might say it is rampant in the United States and other countries

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LCWR denounces decision to rescind TPS for Salvadorans

By Sisters of Providence | January 11, 2018 |

TPS holders are our neighbors and friends

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Sign this letter!

By Sisters of Providence | January 11, 2018 |

The Leadership Team of the Sisters of Providence has signed on to this letter, which will be sent to Indiana’s Senators and Representatives regarding the Dream Act. According to the…

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Both, And

By Katrina Welborn | October 5, 2017 |

Let’s not divide ourselves in another way. Don’t we have enough division? Both sides have something in common: We are tired of this and we want our world to be different.

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No time for despair: climate change reality

By Lorrie Heber | May 9, 2017 |

So, why must we change? Drought, floods, fires, extreme weather, uninhabitable places, rising sea levels, species extinction, refugees, disease, food insecurity, inescapable heat … I could go on. Virtually nothing that we know about Earth is untouched by climate change. And no one.

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Heber to attend Al Gore’s climate change training

By Jason Moon | February 25, 2017 |

Conference to take place March 2-4, in Denver, Colorado

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Hoosier Green Light Award

By Cheryl Casselman | September 30, 2016 |

White Violet Center for Eco-Justice received a Hoosier Green Light Award presented by Sustainable Indiana 2016, an Earth Charter Indiana initiative, and was inducted into the Bicentennial Green Legacy Hall of Fame last night during a ceremony at the Vigo County Public Library in Terre Haute.

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