Josephine Kwenga

Jan 22, 2024 | ncronline.org | Kat Armas |Josephine Kwenga

As we sit down to reflect on what receiving the prestigious People's Choice SDGs Award means to us as the Sisters of St. Joseph of Tarbes, we are compelled by how this award was an exceptional experience of communion for us, not only in Kenya, the project location, but the entire St. Joseph of Tarbes family.

Jan 21, 2024 | ncronline.org | Josephine Kwenga |David Agren

Six nuns from the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Anne were kidnapped Jan. 19 while traveling on a bus in the country's capital, Port-au-Prince, according to the Haitian Conference of Religious. Other passengers on the bus also were taken in the abduction, the conference said in a statement. "These many kidnappings fill the consecrated people of Haiti with sadness and fear," said the statement, signed by conference president P. Morachel Bonhomme. Pope Francis appealed Jan.

Jan 21, 2024 | ncronline.org | Josephine Kwenga |Dan Stockman

Israeli military vehicles move out of the Gaza Strip, as seen from southern Israel Jan. 15, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas. (OSV News/Reuters/Amir Cohen)  Editor's note: Global Sisters Report's Monday Starter is a feature from GSR staff writers that rounds up news from or about women religious that you may otherwise have missed. The Loretto Community has joined the ever-growing chorus of voices calling for peace in the Middle East.

Apr 3, 2023 | globalsistersreport.org | Josephine Kwenga |Stephan Rozario

After earning her medical degree, Italian Sr. Roberta Pignone heard the call of God. Four years later, at the age of 31, she became a member of the Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate, known as the PIME sisters. "Jesus saved me, so I will work for Jesus," Pignone said.

Apr 3, 2023 | ncronline.org | Julie A. Ferraro |Kathryn Press |Chris Herlinger |Josephine Kwenga

When I learned that Global Sisters Report has been featuring articles about regenerative agriculture, I wanted to share my experience here in Kenya of a new way of farming that my congregation, the Sisters of St Joseph of Tarbes, is piloting. The method is called permaculture. Permaculture has three core values: care of the earth, care of people and fair sharing, which encourages farmers to share what they produce.