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May 23, 2021 | 7:51 PM
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (WTWO/WAWV) For the first time since March of 2019, the Sisters of Providence opened their doors and welcomed guests back to the church.
Sister Paula Damiano, Director of Providence Spirituality and Conference Center says they were waiting for more people to become vaccinated before the church would reopen.
“All of our lives as Sisters of Providence, we’ve interacted with people. Most of the sisters who retired and live here now have been teachers, they’ve been principles,” said sister Damiano. “They’ve worked in parishes. So the interaction with people is something that’s always been a part of our lives.”
Bikers receive blessing
Posted: May 2, 2021 9:15 PM
Posted By: Staff Report
May is Motorcycle safety awareness month.
The Sisters of Providence at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods said a blessing over bikers as they rolled up.
Last year s blessing was put on hold due to the pandemic.
This is the 3rd year the congregation has conducted the blessing of the bikers and their motorcycles. Our purpose really is to make people aware of the fact that at sisters of providence we really do pray for people to be protected as they re riding that this really is for them, says co-director Sister Paula Damiano.
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Apr 25, 2021 10:13 PM
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (WTWO/WAWV) “We must protect each other,” Arthur Feinsod, president of the InterFaith Council of the Wabash Valley, said during a Sunday afternoon Zoom memorial for the six women of Asian descent killed March 16 in Atlanta.
The vigil was called “Standing with the Asian-American Community,” and the four Sikhs killed in the April 16 Indianapolis shootings were remembered, as well. Co-sponsors of the event included the InterFaith Council of the Wabash Valley, the Sisters of Providence and the Terre Haute Branch of the NAACP. Speakers included Sister Paula Damiano, Rabbi Remy Liverman, Sister Jessica Vitente, Riem Rostom, Terre Haute President of the NAACP Sylvester Edwards, Sinwon Lee Racop and Jean Kristeller.
The Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC) added 11 cases to its “Innocence List” that tracks American death row exonerations on Thursday, bringing the total to 185 and raising concerns over the likelihood more innocents – especially people of colour – will be condemned.
“Everybody’s worst fear about capital punishment is that innocent people will be wrongfully convicted and executed,” Robert Dunham, the DPIC’s executive director, said in the report on the added exonerations. “But the more we learn about what actually happens in these cases, the worse the problem gets.”
DPIC has found wrongful death penalty convictions in “virtually every part of the country, with exonerations documented in 29 states and 118 different counties”, the report found. By their estimate, one in every 8.3 people sentenced to death in the United States since capital punishment resumed in 1970 were exonerated.
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