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Offering Mercy Amid Madness

Religious Sisters in Burkina Faso have told how they are risking their lives to provide food and sanctuary to hundreds of people – women, the elderly and children – fleeing the violence engulfing the country.

Sister Pauline and Sister Marie Bernadette, current and former General Superior of the Sisters of the Immaculate Conception, gave Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) a dramatic account of their emergency relief work, aimed at people escaping terrorism.

They said: “We take in refugees every day, especially wives whose husbands have been murdered – because the terrorists mainly kill the men – but also children and old people.

Praise the Lord

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