We are Franciscan Elizabethan Tertiary Sisters of Padua (Italy) with a presence of 40 Egyptian and 6 Italian nuns. We were founded in Italy by Elisabetta Vendramini in 1828 in Padua, to be among the people, especially the poorest people, a sign of the charity with which God cares for man.
Since 1935 we have been present in Egypt with the arrival of the first 5 Italian nuns, requested by the Franciscan fathers of Tuscany, which have gradually increased, enriched also by Egyptian and today also Sudanese vocations.
We are present with eight communities along the entire Nile belt, for 650 km, mainly in the villages, in fact we have chosen people and places most in need of our attention and our help. We also have a community in Sudan, in Khartoum.
Despite some changes in lifestyle, there is still a situation of poverty which we are trying to face: economic, cultural, educational, family poverty, expression of freedom and human rights.
You see tourist Egypt, but there is another reality and we, as a Church, as a mission, are there to love and help to grow (limitation to our energies), this reality, also through our services.
Being missionaries is not an adventure: planes, Nile, ships, desert, archeology, but it is taking on the reality in which we are called to live, walk and live with people ...
Al Dokki = Giza El Ahram - We have a new home where the government of Delegation hosts the coordination of all the communities and their works present in Egypt - Sudan in collaboration with Italy - Padua. Part of the house is used as a Novitiate which currently houses four Egyptian novices with their Egyptian teacher. One part welcomes arrivals and departure for Italy and Sudan, for nuns at rest, for study, illness; welcomes groups for government assemblies, zonal meetings, S.S Esercizi, initial and ongoing training in collaboration with Italy.
Source: Ishak Faiza – Egitto
Since 1935 we have been present in Egypt with the arrival of the first 5 Italian nuns, requested by the Franciscan fathers of Tuscany, which have gradually increased, enriched also by Egyptian and today also Sudanese vocations.
We are present with eight communities along the entire Nile belt, for 650 km, mainly in the villages, in fact we have chosen people and places most in need of our attention and our help. We also have a community in Sudan, in Khartoum.
Despite some changes in lifestyle, there is still a situation of poverty which we are trying to face: economic, cultural, educational, family poverty, expression of freedom and human rights.
You see tourist Egypt, but there is another reality and we, as a Church, as a mission, are there to love and help to grow (limitation to our energies), this reality, also through our services.
Being missionaries is not an adventure: planes, Nile, ships, desert, archeology, but it is taking on the reality in which we are called to live, walk and live with people ...
Al Dokki = Giza El Ahram - We have a new home where the government of Delegation hosts the coordination of all the communities and their works present in Egypt - Sudan in collaboration with Italy - Padua. Part of the house is used as a Novitiate which currently houses four Egyptian novices with their Egyptian teacher. One part welcomes arrivals and departure for Italy and Sudan, for nuns at rest, for study, illness; welcomes groups for government assemblies, zonal meetings, S.S Esercizi, initial and ongoing training in collaboration with Italy.
Source: Ishak Faiza – Egitto