{"id":23179,"date":"2025-10-14T08:49:43","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T12:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/?p=23179"},"modified":"2025-10-15T10:28:55","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T14:28:55","slug":"associates-of-sisters-of-mercy-to-share-efforts-to-support-honduran-women-oct-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/2025\/10\/14\/associates-of-sisters-of-mercy-to-share-efforts-to-support-honduran-women-oct-27\/","title":{"rendered":"Associates of Sisters of Mercy to share efforts to support Honduran women, Oct. 27"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-23180\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2025\/10\/Martha-and-Noemi-photo.jpg?resize=300%2C163&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Two images of women, Martha Sandoval and Noemi Dubon\" width=\"300\" height=\"163\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2025\/10\/Martha-and-Noemi-photo.jpg?resize=300%2C163&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2025\/10\/Martha-and-Noemi-photo.jpg?w=361&amp;ssl=1 361w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/>All are welcome to an evening in support of Honduran women at <strong>7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 27<\/strong> in the Health Professions Facility (CHP), Room 124, on the McNichols Campus.<\/p>\n<p>Speakers will share news on a project to address women\u2019s needs&#8211;the purchase and renovation of a new headquarters in San Pedro Sula, which will expand the capacity of Foro de Mujeres (The Women\u2019s Forum).<\/p>\n<p>Many Honduran women dream of staying in their home country, but the recurring threats of domestic violence and femicide often force them to flee. Foro de Mujeres is <span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">group of women who have come together <\/span>to change that narrative by creating a community of mutual support, safety and solidarity.<\/p>\n<p>The organization was founded by the Associates of the Sisters of Mercy, who \u201crespond to the Gospel call to holiness by engaging in the spiritual and corporal works of Mercy, deepening their spirituality, partnering in prayer and action with the sisters and responding in their own personal lives to the critical needs of our time&#8211;care of Earth, anti-racism advocacy, justice for women, justice for immigrants and nonviolence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At the event, you\u2019ll enjoy authentic Honduran snacks and drinks and have the opportunity to support this important work through donations and by purchasing handicrafts made by women in the Honduran community.<\/p>\n<p>This event is co-sponsored by Detroit Mercy\u2019s Titan Dreamers and Women\u2019s &amp; Gender Studies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Detroit Mercy\u2019s Titan Dreamers and the Women\u2019s &amp; Gender Studies Program invite you to an evening of solidarity and support for Honduran women facing domestic violence and femicide on Monday, Oct. 27 at 7 p.m. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":677,"featured_media":23180,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[6,6438,4404],"tags":[7135,6164,194,6165,70,4033,6567],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2025\/10\/Martha-and-Noemi-photo.jpg?fit=361%2C196&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbwnTV-61R","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23179"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/677"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23179"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23206,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23179\/revisions\/23206"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}