Photo of the Week – LCWR joins Iraqi sisters in a call for prayer

Prayer for Peace in Iraq
(offered by the North American Dominican Justice Promoters)

Above: The Dominican Sisters of St. Catherine of Siena, Mosul, Iraq, in 2013
Above: The Dominican Sisters of St. Catherine of Siena, Mosul, Iraq, in 2013

In a recent interview with Marc Lamont Hill on Huffington Post, Sister Donna Markham, OP (Adrian), tells of extreme danger faced by Dominican sisters and brothers and the minority Christian community in Iraq as extremist insurgents invade Iraq. Sister Donna, former prioress of the Adrian Dominican Sisters, has traveled twice to Iraq. She was also interviewed for an article in the Global Sisters Report (“Iraqi sisters stay as civilians flee Mosul”).