Sister Stan's Children News & Letters

What greater act of love can one make than to give oneself wholly and entirely for the relief of the afflicted? Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying” “whom shall I send, and who will go for us?’ And I said, “Here I am, Lord. Send me.” - Isaiah 6:8

Let me tell you a story, not the kind you hear every day, but the kind that reminds you of the quiet, powerful work still happening in the far corners of our world.

In a small village in northern Ghana, a baby girl was born under a wide African sky streaked with gold and dust. Her name was Anna. She had soft brown eyes and a quiet presence. But as the months passed, something seemed different. Anna did not babble like other babies. She did not form words. She did not call out for her mother. And in the region where she was born, silence can be misunderstood.

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Sister Stan Terese Mumuni, founder of the Nazareth Home for God’s Children in Yendi, Ghana, shares her passion for caring for “spirit children” born with deformities, who are sometimes victims of violence fueled by cultural beliefs.

In some rural parts of Ghana, children born with physical deformities are considered to be “spirit children.” Many of them, due to cultural practices, are abandoned, ostracized, and in some cases killed, as they are considered portents of bad fortune for the community.

Sister Stan Terese Mario Mumuni, a Ghanaian nun of the Marian Sisters of Eucharistic Love (MASEL) Congregation, has become a beacon of hope for these rejected children. She founded an orphanage (Nazareth Home for God’s Children) at Sang, in the Yendi Diocese of Northern Ghana to welcome and cater to children with deformities, irrespective of religion, class or ethnic background.

In an interview with Vatican News, Sr. Mumuni describes her passion for children, her love for God, and her important work of bringing about cultural change, one child at a time.

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