Provincial Father Adam Oleszczuk SVD celebrates the Society of the Divine Word's 150th founding anniversary in Jamaica. To commemorate the anniversary, the Caribbean District members produced a year-long video series, honoring SVD missionaries who served the region with faithfulness and love. | Society of the Divine Word - Chicago Province

The headlines about Hurricane Melissa are fading, but Jamaicans will need years and perhaps decades to recover. Father Bernard Latus SVD produced this video to convey the destruction. He writes, "On Friday, Sister Barbara, Father Piotr Palowski and I went to Sav La Mar in Westmorland Parish with hurricane relief supplies, donated by parishioners. One cannot describe the devastation we saw on the way." | Society of the Divine Word - Chicago Province

Divine Word Missionaries is a Catholic missionary society that works among the poor, the neglected and the disadvantaged in more than 78 countries around the world. For over a century, our priests and Brothers have helped those in need build a better future. Often their work takes them to lands so remote that services we consider necessities do not exist. There is no electricity or drinkable water. Medicine and doctors are in short supply, if available at all. Education as we know it does not ex

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