Sisters of the love of Jesus
The Sisters of the Love of Jesus ( Order abbreviation : SCG - Suore della Carità di Gesù; until 2009: Caritas Sisters of Miyazaki ) are a religious institute under papal law for women and have been part of the Don Bosco family since 1986 .
The institute was founded in Miyazaki , in the Japanese diocese of Oita, by the Salesian Don Boscos and missionary Antonio Cavoli (1888–1972). This was an employee of Vincenzo Cimatti . As early as 1928 Cavoli founded the Society of the Ladies of St. Vincent de Paul , who were supposed to take care of the poor and the sick. This society was established as a congregation on August 15, 1937 and recognized by Rome.
During the Second World War, a large number of religious sisters died, only 18 remained. But the congregation began to expand again. As early as 1956, the first house was opened in Korea and one in Latin America in 1960.
On January 1, 1998, the congregation received papal approbation.
Mother Theresia Ryoko Furuki has been Superior General since 2015. The Generalate was in Tokyo for a long time , but is now in Rome . As of December 31, 2005, the Congregation had more than 1000 members, mainly Japanese and Koreans) in 174 houses in Australia (1), Bolivia (4), Brazil (7), Germany (2), Italy (1), Japan ( 51), Papua New Guinea (1), Peru (5), Philippines (1), South Korea (98) and the United States (3). The Caritas sisters take on tasks in crèches, kindergartens, children's homes and day-care centers, in hospitals, outpatient clinics, old people's homes and schools as well as in the media sector.
As early as 1954, the first sisters came to Germany at the invitation of Cardinal Frings as a result of a sponsorship between the Archdiocese of Cologne and the Archdiocese of Tokyo to work in the field of child and senior care in Cologne and Düsseldorf. In 1980 the sisters took over the existing facilities and run a student residence in Cologne and a Japanese kindergarten and a Japanese language school for schoolchildren in Düsseldorf.