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  Sister Cities International   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Sister city programs are also unique in that they inherently involve three main sectors in a community: local government, businesses, and a wide variety of citizen volunteers (including civil society or nonprofit organizations).
Sister Cities International is one of a number of international organizations that utilizes the concept of town twinning to foster deeper cross-cultural understanding and global cooperation towards sustainable economic and community development.
Sister Cities International will recognize a new sister cities partnership between a U.S. and an international community, even though another partnership may exist between that international community and a different U.S. community, only if a cooperative agreement among all involved communities is filed with Sister Cities International.
www.sister-cities.org /sci/aboutsci/faqs   (2464 words)

  
  Qom Province - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Qom is one of the 30 provinces of Iran with 11,237 km², covering 0.89% of the total area in Iran.
In 1996, this province had a population of approximately 853,000 out of which 91.2 % resided in urban areas and 8.8 % in rural vicinities.
The climate of Qom province varies between a desert and semi-desert climate, and comprises of mountainous areas, foothills and plains.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Qom_Province   (940 words)

  
 Saint Joseph High School for Girls
Sister Marie Anais, a young, petite, ultra-feminine, highly distinguished nun with a dynamic and magnetic personality lives on vividly and gratefully in the memories and hearts of all who had the great privilege of having her as a teacher.
That Sister Marie Anais was the perfect influence and model of edification that she was, could no better be proven than by the fact that six members of that first freshman class of 1928 entered the religious life.
Of the graduates who are now Sisters of Charity of Ottawa, two have become provincial superiors of their congregation, three have returned to their Alma Mater as its principals, and 23 have returned as members of its faculty.
ecommunity.uml.edu /francolowellma/schools/StJosephGirls.htm   (1467 words)

  
 Print Version   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Sister M. Camille Prodzinski, RSM, will be marking the 65th anniversary of her entrance to the Order of the Sisters of Mercy in 1938.
Sister Camille was born and raised in the Courtenay area and is a former member of the Sacred Heart Church at Fried.
Sister Camille is the only sister remaining at Mercy Hospital, but now serves as a volunteer in pastoral care work since her retirement.
www.times-online.com /articles/2003/09/05/news/news03.prt   (352 words)

  
 Hawaii's Sister States/Province Program   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
The first sister relationship's were established with the goal of creating friendship and cultural ties through exploring other cultures, and were characterized by exchanges of dancers, singers and other entertainers who were "ambassadors" of goodwill.
The sister relationships were often initiated by legislators or civic organizations who wished to acknowledge and maintain an awareness of the immigrant origins of their particular communities.
The impetus for initiating a Sister tie was most often the result of a resolution by a State or county legislator with, perhaps, the strong encouragement of a particular ethnic organization.
www.hawaii.gov /dbedt/sisterstate/index.html   (1387 words)

  
 Julia Maesa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
As her younger sister Julia Domna, she was among the most important women ever to exercise power behind the throne in the Roman empire.
After the murder of Caracalla, her nephew, and the suicide of Julia Domna, she was compelled to return to Syria.
Julia Maesa died in an uncertain date around 226 AD and, like her sister Domna before her, was deified.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Julia_Maesa   (327 words)

  
 Sister city
Sister cities or twin towns are local school and/or chamber of commerce programs designed to foster international communication and cooperation.
Sisters cities usually share characteristics, such as both being coastal cities or island-cities.
Sister cities also function on higher level as well (county, state, province).
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/sister_city   (216 words)

  
 Hawaii's Sister States/Province Program   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Cebu Province in the Philippines is a long, narrow island, 365 miles south of Manila, with a population of 550,000.
The Sister agreement with Cebu was initiated, not only because of the traditionally strong ties that Hawaii has enjoyed with the Philippines, but by the fact that, by 1996, a number of Hawaii firms were already engaged in business in the Province.
The Sister relationship with Hawaii was formed in 2002 out of a desire to place the Province on the same footing as the relationships that had been established with other places in the Philippines.
www.hawaii.gov /dbedt/sisterstate/sisters.html   (2318 words)

  
 iafrica.com | news | sa news Family wins claim after ambulance fall
The province will also pay R5000 each to Masiye's sister, mother, grandmother, uncle, aunt and cousin, who claimed damages for emotional shock and psychological harm from the department and the driver of the ambulance and nurse who attended to Masiye.
It was claimed that the whole family had suffered mental anguish, emotional shock, psychological disorders and "psychic harm" as a result of the "unexpected, shocking and scandalous nature of the circumstances leading to her death".
He said the settlement included the province paying all the legal costs in the case, which were considerable as several experts had to be consulted for purposes of the case.
iafrica.com /news/sa/275879.htm   (405 words)

  
 Manitoba
The superficial area of the Province of Saskatchewan is 229,229 square miles, or 91,691,600 acres.
Like her sister province of Manitoba, Saskatchewan is served by railway systems which cover what must be regarded as an extraordinary extent of the new country when it is borne in mind that a generation ago it was practically uninhabited.
The Province of Alberta occupies a position in Canada equivalent to that of the State of Kentucky in the United States in regard to horse-breeding.
www.oldandsold.com /articles31n/canada-12.shtml   (4664 words)

  
 WEINBERGER, Sister Frances
A Sister of Notre Dame de Namur for fifty-three years, she served as Provincial Treasurer for the Sisters of Notre Dame during a challenging time of great expansion of schools and convents on the west coast.
She later served on the Provincial Team for the California Province and as Finance Director for Notre Dame High School in Salinas and the Sisters of the Presentation in San Francisco.
Sister Frances is lovingly remembered by her sister Florence Bossu of Maple Heights, OH, her brothers Alfred Weinberger of San Leandro, James Weinberger of Walnut Creek and Cyril Weinberger of Nashville, TN., her many nieces and nephews, the Sisters of Notre Dame and her many friends.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/08/11/MNWEINBERGER7.DTL&type=printable   (249 words)

  
 St. Michael's founder Sister Lillian dies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
A native of New Orleans, Sister Lillian was the oldest of five daughters born to the John P. McCormack and Lillian M. Fitzgerald on March 1, 1915.
Sister Lillian was working in St. Louis when Archbishop John P. Cody asked her to come home to New Orleans and establish a special education school here.
School Sister of Notre Dame Dona Lally, who was with Sister Lillian for her entire career in special education, was particularly affected by the passing of her closest friend.
clarionherald.org /20000720/art001.htm   (1460 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
She came to Guelph from Italy with one child and gave birth to another in Canada.
She and her sister, also an immigrant, noticed their kids were speaking English but ignoring the Italian language and heritage.
The province would only fund such a programme if they could get enough parent support to enrol 25 students.
www.asu.edu /educ/epsl/LPRU/newsarchive/Art652.txt   (390 words)

  
 Sisters of Saint Mary of Namur   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
The Sisters of St. Mary received a van equipped for handicapped from the Drollinger family after the deaths of their parents.
Sister Mary Elizabeth Snyder died on July 6, 2005 in Fort Worth, Texas, at the age of 78, after an illness of several months.
On August 15, Sister Judith Carroll, the General Superior of the Sisters of St. Mary of Namur, was present for the Transition Ceremony of Sister Mary Dorothy Powers, Provincial, and her Council to Sister Patricia Ste.
web2.airmail.net /ssmn/happenings.html   (231 words)

  
 Celibacy Formation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
On July 1, he began as the province's novice master, a role that puts him on the front line of preparing men for the priesthood.
Michael Mascari, OP is the newly elected provincial for the Central Province and the former student master at St. Dominic Priory in St. Louis, where he supervised men in their formation process.
Walter was prioress for the Adrian Dominicans in the 1990s, the congregation asked every sister to attend a workshop on professional boundaries that addressed human sexuality, abuse, and appropriate and inappropriate relationships.
www.domlife.org /2003/celibacy0810.html   (2376 words)

  
 Hainan
Hainan (海南;) is a province of the People's Republic of China, located at the southern end of the country.
Hainan was historically part of Guangdong Province and Guangxi Province, being as such, it was the Qiongya Circuit (瓊崖道) in 1912 (the establishment of the Republic of China).
Hainan is a sister province of Jeju island-province of South Korea.
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/hainan   (795 words)

  
 News about School Sisters of Saint Francis
Sister Bernadine Marie Stemnock, then Pittsburgh’s Provincial Minister, was joined by Sister Rosaria Shina, then Bethlehem’s Provincial, and the Minister from Chile, Sister Sonia Lagos, to present the challenges and desires of the sisters in the Americas.
On April 1 the Sisters at Mt. Assisi hosted a gathering of former members of the community; twenty-two former School Sisters of St. Francis accepted the invitation to reflect together on the charism and to share with one another and current community members in attendance.
The sisters and former sisters reflected together on their experience of religious life and their vision of the Church; together they grappled with the question of what the Church and society expect of the School Sisters of St. Francis today and how the sisters can meet the challenges of today’s society.
www.franciscansisters-pa.org /news.html   (1258 words)

  
 Salesian Sisters of St. John Bosco Eastern Province
The "Adopt a Sister" Program was founded in 1991 to provide funds to build a retirement home for the elderly Sisters of St John Bosco.
Whether the Adopted Sister is for yourself, a family member, or friend in need of spiritual strength, you will find comfort in knowing that ones' intentions will be remembered each day by your spiritual prayer partner.
“We, Salesian Sisters, commit ourselves to the new evangelization of youth.
www.salesiansisters.org   (251 words)

  
 Colourful Past - The Mombasa Hospital   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
A hospital Night Sister at that wrote 'Monitor Lizards (up to 8ft long) would be creeping about outside, some of which escaped the surgeon's dogs.
The new hospital opened in 1950 and during 1953 a Sister recalls a severe accident at Voi and a rescue mission by chartered aircraft from Mombasa Airport.
She said 'all available cars lined the airport strip with their headlights on to enable the pilot to take off and on its return flares had to be lit to enable the plane to land'.
www.mombasahospital.com /colourfulpast.html   (550 words)

  
 St. Francis Story
Sister Gertrude was born in a rural area near O’Fallon, Illinois on January 4, 1939.
Since Sister Joyce was hospitalized with tuberculosis and there were strict visiting restrictions, Gertrude could only wave to her aunt from the lawn.
In her spare time, Sister is involved with a local parish as a Eucharistic Minister and lector and with Habitat for Humanity endeavors for the parish.
www.springfieldfranciscans.org /StFrancisScripts/Story.asp?StoryID=25   (763 words)

  
 The Voice of the Martyrs
On the video five of Sister Jiang’s surviving family members are sitting together: her husband with their 4-year-old son on his lap; Jiang’s mother-in-law, Mrs.
They were still shocked that their wife and sister and daughter had been taken from them, and angry that the PSB refused to take responsibility.
Sister Jiang’s family is pressing the Chinese government for a full inquiry into her case, including a second autopsy to determine the true cause of death.
www.persecution.com /sisterjiang   (454 words)

  
 Chapter 3
On March 13 Bishop Alemany formally incorporated the sisters' convent into "the Province of the Holy Name of Jesus of Upper and Lower California." Formal opening of the convent took place on April 1, 1851, this time Fr.
The sisters opened their school on April 28, "in which are enrolled twelve interns or boarders and sixty externs of day pupils; among these are three Protestants." At first classes were exclusively in Spanish, and both Bishop Alemany and Fr.
On August 4, the feast of St. Dominic, there was a solemn Mass with a sermon in the convent chapel -- with all five sisters present -- and on August 8 Vilarrasa was appointed the sisters' spiritual director.
www.opwest.org /sap/mw/ch03a.htm   (2781 words)

  
 Centre for the Study of AIDS - Northern Cape — the Spaces Between
Sister Pierrette Rossouw’s smile turns to a mock frown when she explains how she has ended up in the small Northern Cape dorp of Garies.
But those who have settled in the many one-horse towns in the province are determined to stay and many professionals, especially health workers, are returning to their place of birth after completing their post school training.
This is compounded by the high number of teenage pregnancies in the province — almost one in five women aged between 15 and 19 years.
www.csa.za.org /article/articleview/295/1/1   (1374 words)

  
 Collections
The majority of the documents were published by the Sisters of Providence General Administration in Montreal, Quebec, to foster knowledge of the foundress of the community and its historical roots.
In 1960, Sister Thérèse Frigon, of Montreal, Quebec, was appointed by the Sisters of Providence General Council to begin the exhaustive process of collecting and verifying the necessary documents to establish Mother Gamelin as a candidate for sainthood.
The Providence Historical Archives, at the Sisters of Providence General Administration in Montreal, Quebec, is the official repository for the personal papers of Mother Gamelin and the records of the Office of the Cause of Beatification.
www.providence.org /phs/archives/collections/1MG.htm   (1823 words)

  
 Clearharmony - Falundafa in Europe
According to the statistics from Xinglongtai District and Dawa County, Falun Gong practitioners in these two areas suffered a direct loss of 1,343,000 yuan, 443,000 yuan of which were in the form of illegal fines, 320,000 in the form of money extorted by police, and 580,000 in the form of suspended salaries.
On July 20, 2003, she went to Beijing to appeal to the government on behalf of Falun Gong and was arrested and sent to a brainwashing centre.
Zhao Zhenguo knew that she was too poor to extort money from her, so he targeted her elder sister by telling her to deliver him 500 yuan as the condition for releasing Wang Pengying.
www.clearharmony.net /subcat/sc1109/sc1109.html   (2458 words)

  
 Father Don's Vocation Blog - Vocations - Franciscan Friars - Province of St. John the Baptist in Cincinnati, Ohio
As things worked out in my sisters' and my life, my ordination anniversary and their wedding anniversaries are all five years apart.
Yesterday afternoon, my sisters' families and I gathered for a Mass of Thanksgiving at the parish church where we grew up and where Dorothy teaches junior high social studies.
Visiting the Mount, as the Sisters' Mother House is referred to, is a bit of nostalgia but it is also a bit of who I am.
vocationvibes.franciscan.org   (1669 words)

  
 Sisters in Action   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Sister Francis' church ministry began when she was an elementary school student in Holy Name, East Orange, then staffed by the Sisters of Charity.
Sister Francis' teaching career was interrupted by her election to Provincial Leadership in the Western Province of the Sisters of Charity.
Sister Francis Raftery is sitting in St. Joseph's lobby engaged in conversation with three African-American students.
www.scnj.org /sisters/fran.html   (674 words)

  
 The Sisters of Notre Dame - Chardon, Ohio
Sister Nanette Mary Zeimet was accepted as a Novice of the Sisters of Notre Dame during Evening Prayer on Sunday, August 12.
Twenty one Sisters of Notre Dame and one lay woman traveled in four vans to New Orleans to assist the Sisters of the Holy Family who are still suffering from the devastating effects of Hurricane Katrina.
Sisters celebrating their Jubilee of Grace (70 years) are Sisters Mary LeRoy Finn, Eveline Marianek, Monica Schmitt and Jeanine Stosik.
www.sistersofnotredame.com   (1179 words)

  
 Lightning from the East : Jesus Is Back, and She's Chinese - religious cults and sects   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Sister Hong's brainwashing session began when her Bible class ended.
Five peasant women had led the Catholic nun to a house in a distant village in Henan province two years ago so that she could teach the life of Jesus.
Last year a man claiming to be Lightning's coordinator for north China met secretly with a senior aide to a Catholic bishop in Hebei province to try to convert the Catholic leadership there.
www.apologeticsindex.org /news1/an011101-15.html?FACTNet   (1264 words)

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