The OLA Blog
Stories, reflections, and updates from our mission and community life. Here we share reflections, insights and experiences, believing that the simple act of sharing can inspire, connect, and open hearts.
2022 Volunteers Prepare for Departure
We are delighted that after two years of travel restrictions we will once again be welcoming volunteers to our medical and education missions in Tanzania. In preparation for the mission, four of the six students completed an orientation day with Sr. Mary Usifoh...
World Day Against Trafficking in Persons 2022
Use and abuse of technology This year’s theme focuses on the role of technology as a tool that can both enable and impede human trafficking. With the global expansion in the use of technology - intensified by the COVID-19 pandemic and the shift of our everyday...
Christians in Nigeria are Under Constant Attack
First published in the Irish Times on 4 July 2022, here. Growing power of Islamist militant groups demands urgent international attention Christians in Nigeria today certainly need faith and hope as the nation unravels on all sides and the government...
Corporate Accountability and Human Rights: Responding to Abuses in Africa.
The Irish antennae of Africa Europe Faith and Justice Network recently hosted a webinar on Corporate Accountability and Human Rights: Responding to Abuses in Africa. The webinar focused on the problem of corporate human rights abuses in Africa, and gave us an...
AMRI Statement on Killings in St Francis Church, Diocese of Ondo, Nigeria
The Association of Leaders of Missionaries and Religious of Ireland released a statement on 16 June regarding the attack on Pentecost Sunday on the Church of Sr Francis, in Owo district Nigeria. Islamic fundamentalism, not climate change, the driver of violence and...
Wilton says ‘Thank You’ to Sr Nora Lucey OLA
Members of the parish making a presentation to Sr. Nora as a token of their appreciation for her many years service in Wilton parish. Sr Nora Lucey, from Ballyvourney, Co Cork, entered the Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of Apostles (OLA) in 1961. After her Final...
Joint Initiative for Strategic Religious Action (JISRA) training, Kaduna
The Women’s Interfaith Council (WIC) recently took part in a Joint Initiative for Strategic Religious Action (JISRA) training. The training was focused on intra-religious capacity building, and aimed at Christian religious actors and traditional leaders. The training...
Cork and Ross Diocese Invite YOU to take Part in the Synodal Process
Synodal Pathway – May 2022 Pope Francis took a prophetic step last year when he postponed a meeting of bishops in Rome. It wasn’t because of the pandemic! It was because he wants the voices of more than bishops and cardinals to be heard. So, this year’s meeting...
Kidnapped Fr Bako Confirmed Dead Amidst Escalating Violence in Nigeria
We are deeply saddened by the death of Father Joseph Aketeh Bako from the Diocese of Kaduna in Nigeria who, along with two other priests, was abducted in March. Fr. Joseph was abducted by gunmen from his residence in Kudenda, Kaduna State, Nigeria, on March 8,...
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