Jesus Caritas

Jean Michel has lived most of his life in a fraternity in Algeria. He has now been 5 years in a community helping people who need rehabilitation...  read more »

France Marseille

Little Sisters Liliane and Marie-Raymonde closed their community in Marseille, France, last February after many years of presence to the women in the port city's world of prostitution. They both now live in a retirement house in Aix-en-Provence.

'The Little Sisters will be immersed in the midst of those the world condemns and despises (prostitutes, drug addicts, prisoners...), seeking to love them with the respectful tenderness of God.'_{(Constitutions art. 56)}

It was in that spirit that, in 1955, two little sisters founded a community in Marseille as a first step toward the world of prostitution. Later, others began similar communities in Belgium, Italy, Japan, Korea, Germany, and Paris.  read more »

Brother Charles' 'fraternity' at Béni-Abbés An account of a pilgrimage by members of the Lay Fraternity of Charles de Foucauld, to Algeria to visit the places where Brother Charles lived  read more »

The community of Villiers-le Bel opened in September 1998 with the aim of being in contact with the Romanies who had left Roumania to settle on the outskirts of Paris.  read more »

Tubet Chapel

Little sister Magdeleine received this house as a Christmas present in 1940, one year after she had founded the Little sisters of Jesus in Touggourt, Algeria. It was a real miracle as at that time she had nowhere to house her little community. Generations of Little sisters have stayed there who consider it to be their ‘family house’.  read more »

The Little Brothers of Jesus live in small communities (of 2 to 4 brothers) sharing the daily life and work of ordinary people.  read more »