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"We commit ourselves to advance the culture of life." (SHALOM document)

Around the world, School Sisters of Notre Dame and Associates form an International Network for Justice, Peace and Integrity of Creation. We call it SHALOM.

SHALOM is the Hebrew word for Peace. It means restoring all things to their original integrity, to the way God intends the world to be.

We work actively toward enhancing just structures that foster fullness of life and toward changing unjust structures that inhibit it. SHALOM is action-oriented.

We are educators in all we say and do and we believe that the goal of SHALOM can be accomplished by ministering for the transformation of society through the transformation of persons.

Joining voices with those who cry for justice we pray, reflect, discuss and take actions that lead to:

  • reconciliation,
  • solidarity with the oppressed poor,
  • the promotion of human dignity and
  • collaboration with ecological movements to safeguard Earth.

For many years SSNDs have seen the negative effect that international debt plays in sustaining and enhancing poverty throughout the developing world. Therefore, we have promoted debt cancellation for impoverished countries.

As SHALOM we have conducted educational workshops on human rights and the Earth Charter as well as sponsored retreats.

 		 
 

 

“Solidarity is the conviction that we are born into a fabric of social relationships,
that our humanity ties us to others, that the Gospel consecrates those ties,
and that the prophets tell us that those ties are the test by which our very holiness will be judged.” 
-Rev. J. Bryan Hehir

SHALOM Clubs


International Debt Cancellation
Check out the various Web sites and videos on this subject.

Web sites:
Jubilee USA Network – Over 60 organizations including labor, churches, religious communities and institutions, AIDS activists, trade campaigners, and individuals are active members of the Jubilee USA Network.
www.jubileeusa.org

US Catholic Bishops International Debt/Foreign Aid – The issue of debt is a top priority for the USCCB Department of Social Development and World Peace.
www.usccb.org/sdwp/
international/debtindex.htm

World Bank Boycott – See School Sisters of Notre Dame Cooperative Investment Fund Resolution
www.econjustice.net/
wbbb/whojoined/
Schoolsisters_res.htm

Jubilee Kids – Taking a look at the issue of international debt in a creative way to help kids understand the issue
www.jubilee-kids.org
/oldsite/index2.html

50 Years is Enough – a U.S.-based coalition of over 200 organizations committed to the fundamental transformation of the IMF and World Bank
www.50years.org


 
 
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