In the 18th December issue of the Irish Catholic Newspaper, Seamus Collins (former Misean Cara L&D Manager) shares his reflections on a monitoring trip to Brazil in October 2025 to visit several Misean Cara-funded member projects. “It’s in the impoverished communities on the periphery of cities like Salvador, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, or […]
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In October this year (2025), Misean Cara’s Learning & Development Manager, Seamus Collins, travelled to Brazil to visit missionary development projects that the organisation funds and supports. While there, he spent a lot of time with the Brazilian project teams who have now taken over from the Irish missionaries who spent many years in Brazil,
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By Dario Devale, Misean Cara Project Officer (Human Rights & Advocacy) Human trafficking has surged in recent years: UN data shows more than 200,000 detected victims worldwide between 2020 and 2023, even as experts warn this is only the visible tip of a much larger problem.1 In a 2024 global human trafficking report by the
Misean Cara CEO, John Moffett, spoke to Spirit Radio’s morning host Kieran Carrick recently to talk about the 2025 Climate Action Awards and how Misean Cara’s members and their innovative climate change projects are having a real impact at a local level. Click here to listen to the interview in full. Learn more about the
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Sr Margaret Hosty, Sisters of Saint Louis, was recently interviewed by the Irish Catholic Newspaper about Christmas fundraising efforts for Grupo AAVE in Brazil, the organisation she co-founded in 1995 to provide support and services to people living with HIV in Goiânia, where she has been based for the past 40 years. In the interview,
Misean Cara Announces Winners of 2025 Climate Action Awards The winners of Misean Cara’s 2025 Climate Action Awards were announced this week at our biannual Members’ Meeting in Dublin. The Misean Cara Climate Action Awards recognise the outstanding efforts, commitment, and innovation of our members in tackling climate change, which is having an outsized impact
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In advance of World Mission Sunday this past Sunday 19th October, Misean Cara’s CEO, John Moffett, talked with Lydia O’Kane of Spirit Radio about the overseas missionary work of Misean Cara members around the world, and to share reflections on his recent trip to South Sudan with the Irish Jesuits International, where they visited projects
After his recent trip to South Sudan with the Irish Jesuits International, John Moffett sat down with journalist Pedro Esteva of The Irish Catholic Newspaper, to share his reflections on visits to projects working to lift communities out of poverty through quality education and healthcare and building job skills in climate resilient farming, nursing and
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World Mission Sunday – Sunday 19th October Each year, the third Sunday in October is set aside to celebrate World Mission Sunday. This special day honours and builds support for the work of missionaries partnering with vulnerable communities around the world to build more sustainable, secure and equitable futures for all. This year, Misean Cara
By Jenny Ackermann, Misean Cara Monitoring & Results Measurement Officer In July of this year (2025), I received an email from Kwalukonge – a small village in rural Tanzania. The email was sent by the Rosminian Fathers, who run a health centre in the community, which I had the privilege of visiting exactly two years
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