Three Reports have been newly added to the site:

Update on Gaza - Security Council
Report Number 1, June 2010: Gaza crisis must be turned into 'Opportunity for real change on the ground', special coordinator tells security council

Letter in support of UNIFEM from NGO committee
Report Number 2, June 2010: Re: Safeguarding partnerships and programming during the transition to a stronger United Nations organization in support of gender equality and women’s empowerment

Keeping Promises - outcome document from meetings at the UN June 14-15, 2010
Report Number 3, June 2010: Keeping The Promise - United to achieve the millenium development goals

Messages to Deirdre Mullan rsm - Director MGC

On Thursday, June 17th, staff members at St. James Mercy Hospital, Hornell, NY, welcomed back Sister Mary William 45 years after she ran the hospital’s business office...

Sister Mary took a guided tour, spent time meeting staff and marveled at the hospital’s development and technological capabilities...

'They were just thinking about putting computers in 1965, so you can imagine what things were like,' she said.

Messages to Sr Mary William c/- Pat Kenny rsm - Institute Communications

Editor: St James Mercy Hospital is this week's featured Mercy website

The Ethics Institute of Northeastern Pennsylvania at Misericordia University was established in 1987 by Sister Siena Finley rsm and a group of community professionals and leaders from the Wyoming Valley who wished to foster more dialogue on ethical issues affecting the region.

Six weeks ago Leadership Wilkes-Barre and the Ethics Institute launched the Ethics Awareness Initiative - coming together as a civic community to accent something good, a code of ethics that we stand by and with which the community want to be identified.

Messages to Bernadette Duross rsm - Executive Director The Ethics Institute

The Sisters of Mercy have been ministering in the United States since 1843 when Francis Xavier Warde arrived in Pittsburgh with six companions from Carlow, Ireland, on December 21. Subsequent groups came from Ireland to New York and California by 1854, and by 1929 sixty independent foundations existed throughout the United States. Today, Sisters of Mercy from four Mercy families live and minister in the United States: Congregation of Sisters of Mercy (Ireland); Institute of Sisters of Mercy of the Americas; Institute of Sisters of Mercy of Australia; and Sisters of Mercy of Newfoundland.

Messages to Mary Kay Dobrovolny rsm - Assistant Director Heritage & Spirituality

1927: Death of M Clare Dunphy, Foundress of Parramatta NSW from Callan

Updated in 2009 by South Central Community Office of Association. Originally produced in 1978 by the Sisters of Mercy of the Union, this 27-page booklet includes background on the Catherine McAuley and the founding of the Sisters of Mercy.

This revised version includes up-to-date information on the Sisters of Mercy around the world and in the Institute of the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas including the various ways of living Mercy: vowed, Association, Mercy Volunteer and Companion.

Contact: Colleen Rettig, Administrative Assistant for Association

St.James Mercy Health System has provided health care services to residents in the Hornell area for over 100 years. During this time, St. James Mercy has evolved from its humble beginnings in a small, rural farmhouse to the diverse and comprehensive system it is today.

'Computers can be pretty [dirty], especially communal ones.

A recent study discovered keyboards... can cause symptoms of food poisoning and other illnesses. You probably give the TV and microwave a wipe in your weekly clean but what about your PC?

It's recommended you give your computer a good going-over at least once every five months and if possible keep it in a relatively clean environment...'