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Home  Home Real Life Encounters Meet the Community in Tarija, Bolivia
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Meet the Community in Tarija, Bolivia |
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After six years in the new mission of Tarija, Bolivia, the Sisters are well
integrated into the new culture and Church. People are calling constantly at the
house...
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many of whom are ex-prisoners who met Alejandra as she visited Moros
Blancos daily. Each one has a vital frontier apostolate, Kathleen in Barrio San
Jorge near the same prison, Patricia in the rural areas, Virginia and Alejandra
with detainees. It was a privilege for me to encounter them in their real life
setting, to hear stories, and meet people whose lives have been touched with
hope through them.
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Sr Brigidda Fahy with Patricia and Virginia. Other
community members are Kathleen and Alejandra.
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The Bolivian people are deeply religious and comunitarian, strongly attached
to their traditional devotions and processions. The new popular method of
reading the Bible is introducing them to a new way of living their faith. Their
concerns are the same as people everywhere: how to raise their children, how to
get their daily bread, how to live their Christian faith in the context of
increased migration, acute poverty, social and political instability. The
Sisters have made the patient and at times painful effort to understand, to get
close, to gain their confidence. One fruit of this effort is a volunteer lawyer
from Tarija who is presently on mission in Termas living with the community of
Kuska Puris. She was a member of the pastoral team that attends the prison of
Moros Blancos.
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Alejandra's Prison
Ministry...More
Kathleen works with local women....More
Patricia works
with the rural communities ...More
Virginia works
with young teenagers in a detention centre... More
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