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2 weeks ago | 
ncronline.org | Chris Herlinger |Carol Glatz
Two ambulances are seen March 23, 2025, in Romanina, a suburb of Rome. On the same day Pope Francis was discharged from Rome's Gemelli hospital after a five-week stay for treatment, a group of Vatican doctors took their Lenten alms initiative a step further, drove two ambulances from the Vatican to Romanina and helped provide medical care to a group of migrants.
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2 weeks ago | 
ncronline.org | Chris Herlinger |Carol Glatz
Citing commitments to the Gospel and the need to affirm justice-oriented values, Catholic sisters joined thousands in April 5 demonstrations against the administration policies of President Donald Trump. They and others say these policies are unjust and inflict pain on the marginalized and the vulnerable.
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2 weeks ago | 
globalsistersreport.org | Chris Herlinger |Carol Glatz
A group of more than a dozen faith-based activists — sisters of different congregations, lay associates, supporters — who participated in the April 5 "Hands Off!" demonstration in Washington D.C. were among those attending the nationwide rally. (GSR photo/Chris Herlinger) Citing commitments to the Gospel and the need to affirm justice-oriented values, Catholic sisters joined thousands in April 5 demonstrations against the administration policies of President Donald Trump.
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2 weeks ago | 
globalsistersreport.org | Chris Herlinger |Fredrick Nzwili
From A Nun's Life podcasts - Young women in India trying to get a good education were falling prey to human traffickers. The nuns discuss how the sisters confronted the issue.
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1 month ago | 
ncronline.org | Chris Herlinger |John Dear |Michael Sean Winters
Today Global Sisters Report launches "Out of the Shadows: Confronting Violence Against Women," a yearlong series on the ways Catholic sisters are responding to this global phenomenon. The series begins with an examination of how the issue has been addressed during the 69th session of the United Nations' Commission on the Status of Women, March 10-21. On Feb.
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1 month ago | 
ncronline.org | John Knebels |Pat Marrin |James V. Grimaldi |Chris Herlinger
Long before Catholic writer Flannery O'Connor raised her famous peacocks as an adult in rural Georgia, she kept canaries and chickens at 207 E. Charlton St., her childhood home in Savannah. She made the chickens' outfits — complete with underwear — with one donning a "white piqué coat with a lace collar and two buttons," she would later recall.
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1 month ago | 
globalsistersreport.org | Chris Herlinger |Jonathan Luxmoore
Sr. Roxanne Schares, a School Sister of Notre Dame, was recently named associate executive secretary of the International Union of Superiors General, or UISG, after having served as general superior of her congregation from 2018 to 2024 and as a UISG executive board member. She continues to serve as a member of the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, a post she has held since 2021.
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2 months ago | 
sightmagazine.com.au | Chris Herlinger |David Adams
CHRIS HERLINGER, an international correspondent for Global Sisters Report, says civilians and combatants alike are tired of “blood and muck, loss and terror”…Via RNSOne of the few upsides, if it can be called that, of covering the war in Ukraine for the past three years has been witnessing the passionate resolve of Ukrainians in their hope for victory over the Russian threat.
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2 months ago | 
ncronline.org | Chris Herlinger |Kate Scanlon
I can't read the minds of President Donald Trump or Elon Musk. So I can only speculate on what is really happening with the dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID — an action decried by Catholic sisters and congregational representatives engaged in humanitarian ministries and in advocacy at the United Nations. One representative told me last week (the week of Feb.
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2 months ago | 
globalsistersreport.org | Dan Stockman |Chris Herlinger
A woman holds a placard outside the U.S. Agency for International Development building in Washington as it sits closed to employees Feb. 3, 2025, after a memo was issued advising agency personnel to work remotely.
