By: Connie Cooper, Communications Coordinator, St. Elizabeth Mission Society 

 

   Send your special prayer blessings to friends or loved ones this Easter with Mass enrollment cards from St. Elizabeth Mission Society. As members of the Mission Society, their intentions will be remembered at Easter Sunday Mass and in other Masses celebrated throughout the year in the Motherhouse Chapel. They will also share in the prayers and good works of our Sisters in Brazil, Bolivia, Jamaica and the United States.

   All Sisters will receive an order form in the mail the first week of March or simply click  HERE to access and review the available cards.

   As a sponsored ministry of the Franciscan Sisters of Allegany, the St. Elizabeth Mission Society shares in its spiritual aims, one of which is to advance the awareness of God's love. Donations given for the cards are used to support the ministries of the Franciscan Sisters of Allegany and their partners in ministry who work to educate, heal, clothe and feed those who are desperately poor in Jamaica, Bolivia, Brazil and the United States.

   Easter as well as various other enrollment cards may be ordered online at  www.FranciscanHope.org. Or you may wish to call the St. Elizabeth Mission Society office at (716) 373-1130 or e-mail the staff at [email protected] for more information about ordering the enrollment cards.  

 

Investors Welcome JP Morgan Chase Decision to Withdraw from Private Prisons 

   Shareholders in JPMC who have been engaging with the bank for over one year on its potential contributions to human rights impacts via investments in private prisons are gratified by today's public announcement that the bank will no longer underwrite the industry. 

   In a n October 2017 letter to Jamie Dimon, a group of nearly 100 institutions holding $27 billion in shares wrote: 

   "These private prisons are rife with alleged human rights abuses, as noted in recent reports and lawsuits, including inmate deaths, poor medical care, allegations of physical and sexual abuse of detainees, and violence. Some of these risks are heightened due to the nature of the business model and practices of the private prison companies including crowded conditions, less programming for inmates and detainees than public facilities, low staff salaries, poor staff retention, lack of training on human rights and inadequate staffing. Already this year, there have been seven documented deaths of immigrant detainees in these facilities."

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