Sister Kathleen Hughes, Provincial of the United States Province, will spend the month of October in Indonesia, Korea and Japan.

In Jakarta, her first stop, she will visit two communities of RSCJ and their ministries. Sister Nance O’Neil of the U.S. Province, a seminary professor, is among RSCJ working there.

Sister Hughes will be joined in Jakarta by Sister Jane Maltby, a member of the Society’s Central Team in Rome.

In Seoul, Korea, Sister Hughes will attend the Assembly of Provincials, a meeting of the leadership of the Society of the Sacred Heart around the world. She also plans to join other provincials in a pilgrimage to the Demilitarized Zone on the border between North and South Korea.

“Given the nuclear threat North Korea poses to South Korea and to the world, it will be an appropriate place for us to visit, reflect and pray,” Sister Hughes said.

The meeting in Seoul will be led by Sister Clare Pratt, Superior General of the Society, Sister Pratt is an American and a former provincial in the United States.

In Japan, Sister Hughes will visit Sacred Heart ministries in Tokyo, including an international school where Sister Shell Olson of the United States teaches math.

The month-long trip will be Sister Hughes’ first to Asia. “I will do as much as I can to experience the Society’s life and work in Asia and to absorb the culture of these countries,” she said. “It will help me to live out the Society’s call at Chapter 2000 to expand our multicultural awareness and to ‘live interculturality.’ ”