The TOIR Programme ran from 12 July to 5 August 2009. Two additional updates have been added. Click here to view the update for Week 3 and click More (below) for the final update.

The Newletter of the JPIC Office of the English Province is now available for download by members from the Members Area.

The NGOs at the United Nations have received the following information regarding Applications for funding. This information may be of assistance to our ministries.

Cordaid and partners are seeking applications from organisations or individuals committed to supporting home based care as a necessary, effective, and community-based initiative for mitigating the effects of HIV and AIDS.

Mount Saints Anne's Retreat and Conference Centre will host a wonderful Flower Festival celebrating the life and times of Nano Nagle on the weekend of 12/13 September 2009.

A student from Presentation High School, Sarghoda, Pakistan has scored highest marks overall in the Punjab with a score of almost 98%.

The Zimbabwe Vice-Province has issued its first e-Newsletter. We include some news items from it here and show you how to subscribe.

The dawn of 25 July was greeted with great enthusiasm by the sisters and novices of Pratistha Niketan. Four young women committed themselves to the Presentation way of life.

For the Jubilee, the Sisters in Thailand committed themselves to sharing Nano's Life story and her service to the poor by having students act out her life and by preparing a slide show on the Presentation mission today.

Sr Perpetua teaches at the Redemptorist Centre in Tafare. She celebrated her Diamond Jubilee in April. She has written a short piece for the PBVM Zimbabwe eNewsletter which we quote here.

Sacred Heart Matriculation Higher Secondary School (Church Park, Chennai, India) celebrated their centenary sports day on 18 July 2009.

The Civil Society Forum took place in Accra, Ghana, from 13 – 16 July 2009.

Throughout the Jubilee Year we took steps to help our students and staff of our school - the Presentation Convent School, Gandhi Nagar, Jammu - to learn more about Nano and her mission.

The Justice, Peace and Integrity of Creation Commission of USG/UISG in Rome has produced a resource to help people reflect on the Integrity of Creation.

The recent encyclical from Pope Benedict shows an awakening in the Chruch to the importance of caring for the environment. Fr. Pat McGettigan, a Presentation Associate, gives an account of his work with The Dunstan Eco-Action Group.

Mountmellick Environment Group (MEG) has been actively supporting the Big Ask campaign over the last few months. Some Presentation Sisters are members of the group.

Churches Together in Britain and Ireland has put together a programme of resources to encourage and assist churches to observe a Time for Creation in 2009, between 1 September and 4 October. Our theme for 2009 is Creation in Crisis - a time for prayer and action.

Did you know that recycling a single aluminium beverage can saves enough energy to run a television for three hours? As well as saving 95% of the energy used to produce aluminium from raw materials?

The closure of the Presentation Convent in Bailieboro marks the ending of the order's presence in Co. Cavan, where the Northern Province established a Missionary Noviciate in 1945.

A Thanksgiving Mass took place at Ryde on the Isle of Wight on 18 July 2009 to mark the closure of the Presentation Community there.

Pope Benedict’s latest encyclical, Caritas in Veritate (Love in Truth) is epitomised in the work of New Zealand man, Stewart Homan, who is an Associate of the Presentation Sisters in New Zealand.

The acquisition of farmland from the world's poor by rich countries and corporations is accelerating at an alarming rate. An area half the size of Europe's farmland has been targeted in the last six months.

The Catholic International Charity Organisation Progressio, has organised a campaign entitled ‘Just Add Water’.

The Elders – a group of eminent global leaders brought together by Nelson Mandela – have announced plans to visit Israel, the West Bank and Gaza at the end of August.

Damian is one of a group of 28 Iraqi Christians who fled to Syria from Iraq. Germany has pledged to take in 2,500 refugees within the framework of a United Nations program for particularly vulnerable refugees.

A number of new reflections were added this month. They include The Anti-Beatitudes,  The Feast of the Transfiguration and one on remembering Hiroshima. In addition, we have added a reflection for International Peace Day next month (21 September).