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Continued Success in HIV Treatment in Bugisi

Image via Gilead Sciences World Aids Day is marked on 1 December each year and falls during the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Based Violence. HIV disproportionately affects women and adolescent girls because of their unequal cultural, social and...

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“Make It Your Business” – New Documentary Film Screening

by John McGeady - OLA Justice Officer | Nov 25, 2022 | Events

Through our membership of the Africa-Europe Faith and Justice Network (AEFJN Ireland) – chaired by the OLA Justice Desk – the OLA are pleased to present two screenings of Trócaire’s new documentary film, “Make It Your Business”. The screenings – on the 30th November...

Pope Francis Prayer Intentions for 2023

by Michelle Robertson - OLA Communications Officer | Nov 24, 2022 | Prayer

The Pope’s Prayer Intentions for 2023 represent a wide array of challenges facing humanity and are the result of much prayer and discernment. Areas in need of prayer in 2023 will include: educators, non-violence, victims of abuse, World...

RIP Sr Helena O’Connell OLA

by OLA Ireland | Nov 23, 2022 | Obituaries, OLA News

Sr Helena O'Connell was called home to God on Saturday 19 November. Sr Helena is deeply regretted by her sisters Kitty, Alice, Tess and Sr. Bernadette O.L.A., her nieces, nephews, grandnieces, grandnephews, great-grandnieces and great-grandnephews, her...