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Ireland
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Since the time of Mother Mary Aikenhead our sisters have ministered in various parts of Ireland. Today our sisters are present in Dublin, Cork, Clarinbridge, Kilkenny, Tramore and Clonmel.
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England / Scotland
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In 1840 a request came for the Congregation to establish a house in Preston, England. Today sisters are present in Clydebank, Airdrie, Yorkshire, Birkenhead, Rock Ferry, Macclesfield, Birmingham, Bristol and London.
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Zambia
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The sisters first went to Chikuni, Monze Diocese in Zambia in 1948. They continue to minister in Monze Diocese, the Archdiocese of Lusaka, and the Dioceses of Ndola, Solwezi and Mpika.
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Nigeria
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Calif/Venezuela
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At the invitation of Cardinal McIntyre the sisters arrived in Long Beach, California in 1953. Today they minister in San Fernando, Los Angeles, Long Beach, Culver City, Garden Grove and San Pedro.
In 1980 at the invitation of the Bishop of La Guaira they went to Catia la Mar in Venezuela.
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An extra-ordinary journey! |
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 Here Sr Mary Fallon recounts an extraordinary and very happy event for two sisters as they travelled by road in the early morning in a remote part of Zambia.
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Valley Family Center - Annual Dinner |
 Thursday, April 26, was a red-letter day for Valley Family Center. Over 300 people came to celebrate the service, which the Center, and its incredibly dedicated staff of 20+ has provided to the community over the past 25 years. In that time over 36,000 men, women and children, have been assisted in healing their lives of broken relationships, fear, violence, battering, school failure, troubled marriages… the list goes on.
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Eucharistic Congress - Join us on the Journey: 10-17 June 2012 |
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 Every journey has a point of departure and a destination, and the Eucharistic Congress journey is no different. As we travel we will find a variety of landscapes; sometimes the terrain will be easily negotiated and, at other times, it will present us with a significant challenge. It’s all part of the experience of getting there.
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Break the Chain - Forge the Links |
 On 17th March 2012, TRAC, the Awareness Raising & Campaigning part of the Medaille Trust, ran a workshop for 6th Formers in the Diocese of Brentwood – the host diocese for the forthcoming Olympic Games. The aim of the workshop was to inform the students about human trafficking and sexual exploitation and the possible increase of it over the period of the Games,
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Home Visitation in Nigeria: carrying on the work of our Foundress |
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 Home visitation is a very important apostolate for the Religious Sisters of Charity. Our Foundress, Mother Mary Aikenhead, saw it as a great need in her time. Since then Sisters of Charity have continued to reach out to people in their homes. This has proved to be an effective way of listening to people and giving them quality presence with dignity. It involves sharing of personal experiences with a great deal of trust.
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Australia
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Sisters of Charity in Australia |
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The Religious Sisters of Charity in Australia have formed a distinct Congregation since 1842, only four years after five Irish sisters answered a request for volunteers and set off on the ten-thousand-mile journey to undertake missionary work in Australia.
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