Catholic News Service

In the days leading up to the Feb. 13 Super Bowl in the new SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California,, local authorities have warned of coming sting operations and criminal penalties associated with sex trafficking.

"We are family and if the members of our family are suffering, are in pain, or being persecuted, we are obligated to do something about it. And our obligation means to start an educational experience by teaching people about it."

Six Auxiliary Sisters in Montreal will have to decide whether to stay or move after a new management firm took over the seniors' residence where they live.

Consecrated men and women are ready to give up everything to follow Christ, but "it's so easily abused and exploited."

Mercy Sr. Janet Mead, who earned gold records for her 1974 hit version of the Our Father, died Jan. 26, 2022, in her native Adelaide. She was 84 and had been battling cancer.

Panelists at a Jan. 31 plenary session of the Catholic Social Ministry Gathering spoke about the importance of creating relationships in their session, "Listening at the Border."

In a project led by the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary, regular working folks will have dwellings they can afford in one of Oregon's highest rent districts by fall 2023.

Pope Francis encouraged religious sisters and consecrated women to continue to show courage amid difficulties, even if it means pushing back against the church they serve faithfully.

Representatives from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops celebrated Mass Jan. 20 at the tomb of two Maryknoll sisters from the U.S. buried in El Salvador. Salvadoran bishops are working on a canonization cause for "martyr friends/companions," which will include the four women, as well as foreign-born priests, such as a group of Spanish-born Jesuits assassinated in 1989 and other Salvadoran Catholics slain during the country's civil war.

Sr. Jeannine Gramick, co-founder of New Ways Ministry, has exchanged a series of letters recently with Pope Francis. She describes the correspondence as including a "beautiful letter" from the pope. . 

The Indian government reversed its ban on the Missionaries of Charity receiving and using foreign funds, reported ucanews.com.

The Missionaries of Charity have had to strictly rationing the food and daily use items for their regular 600 beneficiaries at their motherhouse and Shishu Bhavan, a children's orphanage since Christmas after the government did not approve its license to receive foreign contributions. 

As we reflect on the Holy Family and their hasty departure to Egypt fleeing Herod during this Advent and Christmas season, we can look closer and see those who are fleeing from other perils.

Indian Catholic leaders suspect the police investigation initiated against a Missionaries of Charity-run orphanage in Gujarat state may be intended to discredit the globally renowned institution founded by St. Teresa of Kolkata.

Sister Ann Rose Nu Tawng, whose photo of her begging Myanmar soldiers not to shoot protesters went viral, was honored by the BBC as among the 100 most influential and inspiring women of the year. 

Members of 24 congregations of women religious from around the country and supporters gathered outside the White House on Dec. 3 to protest the continued use of Title 42, enacted in March 2020 under the Trump administration as coronavirus infections began rising in the U.S. and around the world. Immigration advocates say the rule is another pretext to keep migrants out.

 Two months after they were arrested on charges of allegedly converting Hindus by coercion and allurement, a court in Nepal has granted bail to two South Korean missionary nuns.

Sr. Marlene Weidenborner entered the religious community of the Franciscan Sisters of Allegany, New York not intending to stay. Instead, she received confirmation that religious life was her calling and recently celebrated her 65th anniversary of religious life. 

The Handmaids of the Heart of Jesus, a congregation started in 2007 with four women, now has a new place to call home -- a newly renovated convent at St. Gabriel the Archangel in Hopkins to begin their work in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis.

A new crisis is affecting Lebanon's hospitals, which are still struggling with multiple challenges, including having to rebuild after the port blast in August 2020: dozens of nurses are resigning to seek more stable work in other countries.