The Commission on the Status of Women will be in session Feb. 27–March 9. in New York. The priority theme will be “The empowerment of rural women and their role in poverty and hunger eradication, development and other challenges.” The commission’s guiding principles are “to raise the status of women, irrespective of nationality, race, language or religion, to equality with men in all fields of human enterprise, and to eliminate all discrimination against women in the provisions of statutory law, in legal maxims or rules, or in interpretation of customary law.”

Sister Theresa Rickard, OP (Blauvelt), president and executive director of RENEW International, will be a featured speaker at the first annual Mid-Atlantic Congress for Pastoral Leadership March 8–10 in Baltimore, Maryland. The purpose of this new event is to bring together leaders in parishes and schools to enrich their faith, strengthen their pastoral ministry, and enhance their leadership skills. Sister Theresa will speak on March 9 on “The Call to a New Evangelization: Awakening, Deepening, and Sharing our Faith.” Read Christian News Wire article