Editor: Malala Yousafzai, the young Pakistani champion for universal education and girls’ rights, will make her first high level public appearance at the United Nations on 12 July. At the heart of “Malala Day” is a call to improve the lives of some 57 million out of school children by improving education access by 2015. The Day also celebrates Malala’s 16th birthday.

' “On 12 July, Malala will be joined by hundreds of students from more than 80 countries in a unique Youth Assembly, where diplomats will take a back seat as young people take over the UN,” Secretary General Mr. Ban Ki-moon said in an op-ed for the Huffington Post. “They will gather to issue a global call for quality education for all...

“We must do all we can to ensure that schools are safe and secure learning spaces. Nowhere in the world should it be an act of bravery for an adult to teach or a girl to go to school...” '

 Join the call to support the Global Education First Initiative by posting photos, Vine & Instagram videos using the hashtag #MalalaDay and sign-up online to say you stand with Malala.

Messages to: Mary Reynolds rsm - Executive Director

On Tuesday, 16 July,  Mercy students and teachers from across the globe will gather at Mercy International Centre for the commencement of the second Young Mercy Leaders pilgrimage.

During the pilgrimage we will be reporting each day on the programme activities on the mercyworld .org website, Facebook, Twitter and Flickr.

We invite our readers to follow the pilgrimage. Please pass the information below onto your delegates so they can follow us. Pass it onto family and friends at home so they can also follow the pilgrimage.

Find us:
on Facebook: MIA Young Mercy Leaders
on Flickr: youngmercyleaders
on Twitter: Young Mercy Leaders
@YMLMIA
We will use the hashtag: #YMLP

Messages to: Cathy Edge rsm - Communications Co-ordinator, YML Pilgrimage

As the crisis in Egypt deepens, Mercy International Association joins with all those praying for an end to the violence and a peaceful resolution to the political crisis.

This second in a series of reflections on the 2013 UN Advocacy Experience highlights the anticipation and momentum that Bridget Crisp of New Zealand expresses in recalling her week at the United Nations in New York City and Mercy Center in Madison, Connecticut.

Subsequent reflections in Mercy E-news will continue to explore responses from the participants.

Messages to: Rita Parks rsm

'Diversity can be seen as an obstacle or an opportunity, depending on whether our preference is for order or variety. Creator God seems certainly to favour the second, in making a world that is richly diverse, a creation that unfolds and continues to grow increasingly complex as it does so. The call to understand and care for creation is, more than anything, an invitation to see how we and all other forms of life are interdependent...'

Extract from: 'Being in mission today -embracing diversity' in Imaging Mercy Today, linked to this item

Messages to: Katrina Fabish rsm - Communications Contact, CLT

'Some months ago,' writes Carmel Bracken rsm, 'browsing in a charity shop in Enniskillen I came upon the Mobius Strip pictured here. One week earlier I would have passed it by because I would not have known its significance. Synchronistic ally, I had just read about the symbol in a book called A Hidden Wholeness by Parker Palmer. Thus I bought the object, placed it in my prayer space so I could reflect on its challenges...'

In a fascinating article Sr Carmel shares with us her reflections on the Mobius strip which  'symbolizes transformation on a planetary level'.

Messages to: Carmel Bracken rsm

Editor: Since 1983, Mercy Housing and Shelter Connecticut has been working to empower homeless persons to become independent, so they may live and work with dignity and respect.

Last year Mercy Housing and Shelter’s programs served more than 5,700 individuals providing housing, food, job training, access to medical services, and basic human needs.

In an article in the current issue of the newspaper of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Hartford Connecticut, linked to this item, Patricia McKeon rsm, Executive Director of Mercy Housing and Shelter, says very clearly that 'homelessness can be history'. The article traces the history of Mercy Housing and Shelter with Sr Patricia concluding: ' '“They are strong people,” she said about those she serves. “I don’t know that I could live through being homeless with the strength and oftentimes with the grace that they do.”...'

Messages to: Patricia McKeon rsm - Executive Director
 

1897: Foundation to Bundaberg from Brisbane - M Syra

'On the Wings of Angels' (Arbutus Press, 2013) highlights 12 local community leaders, physicians, clergy and religious, who have contributed to the growth and success of Saint Mary’s Health Care (now named Mercy Health Saint Mary’s).

Read an article on the book

We serve together in Trinity Health,
in the spirit of the Gospel,
to heal body, mind and spirit,
to improve the health of our communities
and to steward the resources entrusted to us.

This video shows the 3 basic Dropbox sharing tips from sharing to managing files in Dropbox.

Source: YouTube