IDENTITY
CARD OF THE MSOLA
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Name: Missionary
Sisters of Our Lady of Africa
Beginning
in: Algiers
(Algeria), 8th September 1869
Founder: Cardinal
Charles Lavigerie
Fisrt Superior
General: Mère
Marie-Salomé
Number of
Sisters in December 2007: 899
sisters
Nationalities
of origin: 29
( 12 in Africa, 12 in Europe, 3 in America, 2 in Asia)
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Our
founders:
Mother Marie-Salomé and
Cardinal Charles Lavigerie
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Number of communities:
123
(38 in Africa, 70 in Europe, 15 in America)
Present in:
27
countries ( 15 in Africa, 9 in Europe, 3 in America)
General Administration:
Rome,
Viale Trentaprile n. 15 - 00153 Rome - Italy
Provinces:
Africa with four regions:
Maghreb (Algeria,
Mauritania, Tunisia)
(45
sisters in 10 communities)
Central Africa (Burundi,
D. R. Congo, Rwanda)
(47 sisters in 8 communities)
East Africa (Kenya,
Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia)
(51 sisters in 11 communities)
West Africa (Burkina
Faso, Chad, Ghana, Mali)
(38 sisters in 9 communities)
CUM (Canada,
United States, Mexico)
(152 sisters in 15 communities)
Europe (Belgium,
France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Switzerland,
United Kingdom)
(551 sisters in 68 communities)
Under the General Council (Rome) ( 14 sisters in 2 communities)
Houses of formation:
Two
Novitiates:
Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso (Francophone)
Nairobi, Kenya (Anglophone)
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The
MSOLA charism:
The MSOLA
are Catholic religious women for Africa :
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exclusively missionary,
going out towards other peoples,
other cultures, places where the Gospel and its
values are not fully present.
- principally
for Africa...
- for the evangelisation
of the peoples of Africa...
- in solidarity with the
women of Africa...
- with particular attention
to the believers of Islam.
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