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Jun 20, 2024 | 
ncronline.org | Thomas Scaria |Teresa Anyabuike
Behind every cup of world-famous Ceylon tea, there is a story of exploitation and bonded labor, says Apostolic Carmel Sr. Maria Amali, whose congregation has worked among Sri Lanka's tea plantation workers for almost 100 years. Sri Lanka (which was known earlier as Ceylon) ranks third behind China and Kenya as the largest tea exporters in the world.
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Jun 20, 2024 | 
globalsistersreport.org | Teresa Anyabuike |Thomas Scaria
Domestic servitude and early marriage were the issues discussed during our stakeholders' workshop at Bishop Thomas McGettrick Pastoral Center in Abakaliki, Ebonyi state, Nigeria. The workshop was organized by Africa Faith and Justice Network in collaboration with in January 2024.
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Jun 20, 2024 | 
ncronline.org | Oliver Samson |Teresa Anyabuike |Thomas Scaria
The Sisters of the Divine Savior in the Philippines are unanimously opposed to a proposed constitutional change on economic provisions, said Sr. Adeline Abamo, the congregation's outgoing regional superior. On March 6, the House of Representatives adopted a resolution calling for a convention to amend the constitution; the delegates to vote on the resolution will be elected in October, though the constitutional convention still has no date.
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Jul 17, 2023 | 
globalsistersreport.org | Teresa Anyabuike
The women of the Peruvian Andes drive two wooden stakes into the ground. With them they build a frame on which they weave a loom. Once finished, they pull the stakes out of the ground and, with sacred respect, fill the hole left in the ground by the stakes with a few coca leaves. This is the way they restore what was taken away and heal the small wound that Pachamama has suffered because of the work of human beings.
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Jul 14, 2023 | 
globalsistersreport.org | Teresa Anyabuike |Oliver Samson
Listener Sarah is considering religious life, but she has a life-threatening peanut allergy and wonders if the needs that spring from that will bar her from community life and the apostolate. "The common life doesn't mean that we all have to be a certain way and all of our health has to be absolutely perfect — I mean, I don't know of any human being that could achieve that," says co-host Immaculate Heart of Mary Sr. Maxine Kollasch.
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Jul 13, 2023 | 
ncronline.org | Oliver Samson |Teresa Anyabuike
Being in God's presence moment by moment is the most fulfilling experience I've ever had. It is hard to describe or express. One can be calm and at peace even in the midst of disturbing moments — not that you don't feel unease about it, but you just won't allow your feeling to take over. I believe it's all God's grace in action when I permit God to take charge of the situation.
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Jul 13, 2023 | 
globalsistersreport.org | Oliver Samson |Teresa Anyabuike
Being in God's presence moment by moment is the most fulfilling experience I've ever had. It is hard to describe or express. One can be calm and at peace even in the midst of disturbing moments — not that you don't feel unease about it, but you just won't allow your feeling to take over. I believe it's all God's grace in action when I permit God to take charge of the situation.
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Jul 13, 2023 | 
globalsistersreport.org | Teresa Anyabuike |Oliver Samson
"We are going to support them after they have completed the trainings," she said. "We are going to help them sell their products."The congregation would also offer backyard gardening to its beneficiaries so they could produce their own food right at their home, which would also help decongest the traffic of commuters and cut domestic expenses. Skill and livelihood trainings also include massage and reflexology, and bag and T-shirt printing, Solitario mentioned.
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Jul 13, 2023 | 
ncronline.org | Teresa Anyabuike |Oliver Samson
A mother of three, Narcisa depended on her sewing machine: The clothes and materials she made were how she provided for her family, as her husband had had a stroke and was left unfit to work. When her sewing machine broke in mid-2022, she worried that she would not be able to buy food for her family — until the Claretian Missionary Sisters stepped in.
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Apr 26, 2023 | 
globalsistersreport.org | Julie A. Ferraro |Gina Christian |Teresa Anyabuike |Thomas Scaria
Long plagued by open-air drug use, overdoses and trafficking, Kensington is now experiencing a spike in overdoses from xylazine, a veterinary tranquilizer that has been found in 90% of Philadelphia's street opioids. Resistant to the opioid-reversing naloxone, xylanzine — "tranq," as it is popularly known — restricts blood flow through skin tissue, leaving users covered in ulcerated, necrotic wounds.
