Sisters Of Charity Congregation Inaugurates Delhi Province
Kolkata, West Bengal:- The Sisters of Charity of Sts. Bartolomea Capitanio and Vincenza Gerosa, having completed their 150 years of mission in Bengal, celebrated yet another landmark event: the 13th provincial chapter of Calcutta province and the first provincial chapter of Delhi province at the provincialate here, December 9-13.
The Calcutta province of India is bifurcated into the province of Calcutta spread out in West Bengal, Jharkhand, Orissa and Chhattisgarh and the province of New Delhi consisting of Delhi, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, the Punjab, Maharashtra, the Union territory of Chandigarh and Nepal.
The province of New Delhi was inaugurated with Sister Ines Anthraper, the former provincial of Calcutta, as the provincial superior and Sister Thressia Madamana, the former novice mistress of Calcutta Province, as the provincial superior of Calcutta province.
The superior general from Italy, Mother Piercarla Mauri, presided over the event in the presence of assistant general, Sister Cecily Augustine.
The 60th chapter delegates deliberated on the theme 'To be an eloquent sign of the tenderness of God in life and mission'.
The Italian congregation of the Sisters of Charity, known also as Sisters of Maria Bambina, caters to the most needy, especially the tribal population in the states of West Bengal, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Orissa and Madhya Pradesh and the socially and economically backward and developing groups in other states.
In addition to serving in the educational and medical sectors, the nuns are involved in socio-pastoral activities, caring for the physically and mentally challenged, life-term prisoner's children, rag-pickers, street children and children from the red light area. They also run boarding houses, work for the welfare of poor and backward women in villages, organise literacy programmes for prisoners and domestic maids and besides the rehabilitation of the raped and abandoned women and victims of injustice.