The Medical Mission Sisters are an international religious community of women who dedicate themselves to a life and mission of healing in areas of need throughout the world. Founded in 1925 in Washington, D.C., by Austrian-born Doctor Anna Dengel, the Medical Mission Sisters were the first Order of Roman Catholic Sisters to train their members as medical doctors, surgeons, and obstetricians.
Healing is essentially a way of life “in which we recognize that our humanness is being drawn by God into wholeness”. It includes passion and compassion; reverence for all at every stage and age of life; an abiding concern for the Earth and all the life that she sustains; right relationship with others, irrespective of their faith, race, nationality or world view; solidarity with those who are poor in their longing for justice; and selfless care for those who need us most.
Today, 700 Sisters and Associates reach out to those in need of healing on five continents in 16 countries.
