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Global Sisters Report is a non-profit organization that provides unbiased news and insights about Catholic sisters and the important challenges they encounter while helping others. Our team of journalists covers stories about their experiences and contributions, while the sisters also share their viewpoints through opinion pieces.

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Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill' not beautiful to these Catholic sisters

3 days ago | globalsistersreport.org | Rhina Guidos

As lawmakers consider a range of drastic cuts in aid to the poor in President Donald Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act, Catholic sisters and their supporters from around the country showed up close to their doorstep June 24 to speak against it. "The 'big beautiful bill' is not beautiful. It is harmful. It is unjust and it goes against everything we believe in as Catholic women religious," St. Joseph Sr. Karen Burke said to the public.
Religiosas en México acompañan a migrantes 'atrapados' por políticas de EE. UU.

5 days ago | globalsistersreport.org | Rhina Guidos

Es difícil saber cuántos han pasado por el mural en el albergue administrado por las Hermanas Josefinas en Ciudad de México y han compartido el sentimiento escrito en la pared: "En un tren viajan sueños sin miedo a cruzar fronteras". Sin duda, uno de los sueños compartidos por los miles que han pasado por Cafemin, un albergue para mujeres y familias migrantes en Ciudad de México, es llegar con bien a los Estados Unidos (EE. UU.).
ENTREVISTA | Hna. Helen Prejean y la lucha del papa Francisco contra la pena de muerte

1 week ago | globalsistersreport.org | Dan Stockman

Independientemente de lo que haga el papa León XIV —o cualquier papa en el futuro— con respecto a la pena de muerte, parece que ninguno tendrá un impacto tan grande como Francisco.
Sisters began a day care for Kansas City's working poor. Now, it's a huge operation.

1 week ago | globalsistersreport.org | Dan Stockman |Julie A. Ferraro |Chris Herlinger

Berta Sailer and Corita Bussanmas — both Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary — had hoped to work themselves out of a job. They weren't able to do that, but the nonprofit they started in 1971 in Kansas City, Missouri, is still going strong, even though Bussanmas died in 2021 and Sailer died in January 2024 and both had retired years before. In some ways, the institution known as Operation Breakthrough is stronger than ever.
The impact of Trump's cuts to humanitarian aid, by the numbers

1 week ago | globalsistersreport.org | Allison Prang

Relief organizations and others have been sounding the alarm on the human toll from the Trump administration's pullback in humanitarian aid funding, which has affected a range of work around the world and has ultimately resulted in deaths. One of the people raising concerns is Brooke Nichols, a Boston University associate professor of global health who models infectious diseases and used to work on a program funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development herself.
Leadership Collaborative gathering in Rome unites sisters from 45 countries

2 weeks ago | globalsistersreport.org | Dan Stockman |Helga Leija

There were nearly 200 sisters gathered in Rome for the five-day event and another 100 sisters joining online. But don't call it a conference. Hope 2025, a gathering organized by the Leadership Collaborative for Catholic sisters under the age of 65, was part retreat, part networking event, part guided prayer and part space for connection. But there were no keynote speakers, no workshops.
Q&A with Masthan Sahib, a Muslim serving alongside Catholic nuns for 43 years

2 weeks ago | globalsistersreport.org | Thomas Scaria |Tawanda Karombo |Paul Jeffrey

Masthan Sahib has worked with Catholic nuns for four decades in a leprosy rehabilitation center in Bengaluru, the capital of the southern Indian state of Karnataka. The center, Sumanahalli, is under the Bangalore Archdiocese, aided by the state government, and managed by nuns and priests of different congregations.
Q&A with Sr. Helen Prejean, on Pope Francis' fight against the death penalty

2 weeks ago | globalsistersreport.org | Dan Stockman |Chris Herlinger

No matter what Pope Leo XIV — or any future pope — does in regard to the death penalty, it seems none will have as great an impact as Pope Francis. In August 2018, the Vatican announced Francis had ordered a revision of the Catechism of the Catholic Church to assert "the death penalty is inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person" and to commit the church to working toward its abolition worldwide.
New leader for Indian diocese vacated by bishop accused of raping nun

2 weeks ago | globalsistersreport.org | Gina Christian

The Vatican has appointed a new bishop for India’s Jalandhar Diocese in Punjab, two years after Bishop Franco Mulakkal stepped down despite a court clearing him of charges of raping a nun. The Vatican named Fr. Jose Sebastian Thekkumcherikunnel as the new bishop on June 7. The 62-year-old priest serves as the financial administrator of the diocese. The diocese, which has been without a bishop for nearly seven years, has not announced the date of episcopal ordination.
Disabled children grow up with love from the Holy Cross Sisters in Bangladesh

2 weeks ago | globalsistersreport.org | Stephan Rozario |Doreen Ajiambo

In the port city of Chittagong, in Muslim-majority Bangladesh, Holy Cross Sisters are providing education, handicrafts training, physical exercise and other services to children with disabilities. The center, called "Apon Griha" (Own House), is now bustling with the noise of children from morning to afternoon, growing up with care and love under the watchful eyes of the sisters. Nusrat Jahan Sadia, 17, was diagnosed with pneumonia five days after birth.