The International Union of Superiors General - UISG provides a place for female Superiors General to meet in an ecclesial setting. With a worldwide membership, UISG builds bridges and develops networks in order to create different ways for religious sisters to communicate across geographical distances, different languages and cultures in order to be in communion with one another and build a global community together.

The UISG

• Provides an international forum where Superiors General can share experiences, exchange information and mentor one another in their role as leaders.
• Encourages the leaders of religious congregations to foster dialogue and collaboration within both the Church and larger society.
• Offers regular programs, meetings and publications to assist members in their leadership of religious congregations.
• Communicates with the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples and other significant Church and social organizations on matters concerning religious life.
• Fosters networking and solidarity among women religious across the world.

Founded in 1876 by Fr. Augustine Planque, first Superior General of the Society of the African Missions (SMA) of Lyons (France), the Sisters of Our Lady of Apostles desire to be seeds of unity and hope especially among the poor. Sisters are engaged in ministries of health care, education and social services with special attention to the education of women working with them for the recognition of their value and dignity, in society and in the Church. With sisters from 19 countries and ministries in over 20 countries, the Sisters of Our Lady of Apostles have a particular commitment to intercultural and interreligious dialogue as well as justice, peace and the integrity of the environment.

The Missionary Sisters of the Precious Blood, CPS  (the abbreviation CPS stands for Congregatio Pretiosi Sanguinis in Latin), are an international congregation of women, founded by the Trappist Abbot Francis Pfanner in Mariannhill, near Durban, South Africa, on the 8th of September 1885. As the name implies, the congregation is missionary and works primarily for evangelization among people and nations who do not know Christ and his Gospel. We are also active in areas where the local Church is not viable. The congregation has sisters and pastoral and social service ministries in 19 countries. Sisters focus on the family apostolate and the holistic education of children and youth, especially the poor, vulnerable and marginalized, as well as supporting women in their needs and difficulties and acting with them against all forms of oppression to promote their dignity. Since its founding, the congregation has guided and accompanied seven African Sisters’ Congregations until they became autonomous in South Africa, Zimbabwe, Kenya and Tanzania. In all of its work and mission, the Missionary Sisters of the Precious Blood seek to be instruments of reconciliation, hope and new life.

The Congregation of Jesus Mary Joseph was founded by Fr. Mathias Wolff at Amersfoort, in the Netherlands in 1822 to educate the poor and the marginalized girls and to revive the faith of the clandestine Catholic families. This was a period of significant repression of the Catholic faith, and women and girls were neglected and voiceless. The Congregation grew quickly and spread throughout the Netherlands and currently throughout the world with sisters in India, Ghana, the United States, Germany and Austria and a headquarters in Rome. The ministries of the congregation include education at all levels, including workforce programs, healthcare including geriatric care, a specialty and experience that is particularly important to the work of the Anna Trust, social work, including day care centers for the elderly, and evangelization. The congregation emphasizes its charims as “An ever-adaptable Apostolic availability,” courageously following the footsteps of the Founder in response to the signs of the times emerging in today’s world and continually intent on the most Holy Will of God.

The Congregation of the “Sisters of St. Joseph Benedict Cottolengo,” founded in 1833 by St. Joseph Benedict Cottolengo to care for the most disadvantaged people in society, consists of Sisters of Apostolic Life and Sisters of Contemplative Life. It is part of the charismatic foundation Little House of Divine Providence.

The Little House of Divine Providence, founded by St. Joseph Benedict Cottolengo in 1832 in Turin-Italy, is an institution, spread over four Continents, which includes, in addition to the Congregation of the Sisters, the Congregation of the Cottolengo Brothers and the Society of Cottolengo Priests. All three Congregations are of Pontifical Right.

The Sisters currently live out their mission of charity in Italy, Switzerland, Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Florida-USA, Ecuador, Kazakhstan and in several states in India: Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, New Delhi, Uttar Pradesh. There are 6 monasteries, 5 in Italy and 1 in Kenya.

The Sisters' service, both apostolic (e.g., hospitals, health centers, care residences, rehabilitation and educational centers, schools, university residences, parishes, dispensaries) and contemplative (monasteries) and are directed to the sick, differently abled people, elderly, children, young people, vulnerable women, and the homeless. The services are particularly directed “to those who have no person to think of them.”

The “Charity of Christ impels us” and the total faith and trust in Divine Providence, which animated the Founder's heart, still enlivens the hearts of his Sisters, who desire to live as “ministers of Divine Providence” and “mothers and sisters of the Poor” to witness and communicate to them the tenderness and mercy that God the Father has toward each of them, His beloved children.