In the first few months of this year two new monasteries of Carmelite nuns have been founded. On the 19th of February the Congregation for Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life (CIVCSVA) issued the decree of initiation of the foundation of the second monastery in Venezuela. The community of Porlamar, formed by three nuns from Santiago de los Caballeros (Dominican Republic), Camaná (Perú) and Machakos (Kenya), have given birth to this community that is dedicated to St. Mary of Mount Carmel in Caño Grande, in the diocesis of Barinas. On the 6th of May, the CIVCSVA issued the decree of initiation of foundation for the monastery of “St. Therese of the Child Jesus” in Azua in the diocesis of San Juan de la Maguana. This is the fifth monastery in the Dominican Republic and it was founded by the nuns from La Vega.