Basque news and Information Channel, eitb24, reported:
Every year, thousands of members of PETA , (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals), send postcards from all over the world to the Misericordia in Pamplona/Iruña, organizer of the bullfights, protesting against the bull running and bullfights.
The nuns living at the Misericordia take the stamps from the postcards, recycle them and sell them to collectors to finance Catholic missions in the underdeveloped world.
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The funds raised have helped build two water wells, one in Cameroon and one in India.
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Yep, those are the Catholic nuns. They ROCK.
2 comments:
I love it!
Your blog is great reading...sent from a Catholic in the Pacific Northwest...
SM
Thank you Shelly,
I'm glad you enjoyed this nuns' story.
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