Dear Sisters, Associates, Lay Consecrated and Sojourners,
We write this communication to request world-wide prayerful support for our Sisters and Brothers in Tanzania.
On October 29^th the national presidential elections opened.  With the elections came a great deal of political unrest and areas of violence, which have continued.
Sr. Maria was able to speak with Sr. Lucina John, regional superior.  She is grateful for all the prayerful support.  She asks that we continue to pray.  There are many lives that have been taken and other have been detained.  It is a very confusing time for the country.  Tanzania has been a country of peace for many decades.
Our Sisters are safe at this moment, however, some of our sisters’ family have died as innocent victims of this violence.  Some have family members who have been detained.    
Sr. Martha Joseph Nkwimba, who serves as assistant novice director, received word on Saturday, November 1, that her brother was confirmed dead.  He had been missing since leaving work for home a few days before.
Sr. Rosemary Nyekobe also received word her brother was killed as he tried to get needed food for his family.
Communication is very limited, we know many families have been impacted by the situation in the country and we hold everyone close in prayer.
We ask that we all intentionally remember Tanzania and its people in our prayers.  May God’s peace and reconciliation cover the country with deep compassion and love for one another. May the Blood of Christ be a source of healing, hope and peace.
We continue to remember Tanzania and all the many places of our world, in war and conflict.
In God’s compassionate care,

Rome, Italy

November 4, 2025

For the month of October, Pope Leo XIV invites us to pray  “that believers in different religious traditions might work together to defend and promote peace, justice, and human fraternity.”

This prayer intention comes in a particularly significant month: it marks the 60th anniversary of Nostra aetate, the declaration of the Second Vatican Council that inaugurated a new era in the relationship between the Catholic Church and other religions—a time of dialogue, respect, and collaboration, more urgent than ever in a world marked by division, war, and misunderstanding.

At a time when the temptation of conflict seems to prevail, the Pope calls us to awaken the awareness of what unites us and to cultivate concrete forms of cooperation: “to live, pray, work, and dream together,” as brothers and sisters.

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Lord Jesus,
You, who in diversity are one
and look lovingly at every person,
help us to recognize ourselves as brothers and sisters,
called to live, pray, work, and dream together.

We live in a world full of beauty,
but also wounded by deep divisions.
Sometimes, religions, instead of uniting us,
become a cause of confrontation.

Give us your Spirit to purify our hearts,
so that we may recognize what unites us
and, from there, learn again how to listen
and collaborate without destroying.

May the concrete examples of peace,
justice and fraternity in religions
inspire us to believe that it is possible to live
and work together, beyond our differences.

May religions not be used as weapons or walls,
but rather lived as bridges and prophecy:
making the dream of the common good credible,
accompanying life, sustaining hope
and being the yeast of unity in a fragmented world.

Amen.