A life of service: Sister Maria Concetta

Photo of the Day | published on 06/16/17

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Photo of the Day, June 16, 2017

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ZONGO, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO: 81 year-old Italian nun Sister Maria Concetta assists a mother with her newborn baby in Zongo, in a small village in the Equatorial region of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Sister Maria arrived in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 1959 and works as a midwife at Zongo hospital, which is run by the Congregation of the Daughters of Saint Joseph of Genoni, from Italy.

Photograph by Federico Scoppa for AFP

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