Chris Herlinger

Chris Herlinger

Chris Herlinger is New York and international correspondent to Global Sisters Report and also writes on humanitarian, international and cultural issues for NCR. He covers the work of Catholic sisters at the United Nations, and in the last decade has reported from Ukraine, Poland, Bosnia, Croatia, South Sudan, Haiti, Lebanon, Italy, Ghana, Uganda and El Salvador, among other locales. Chris has won numerous awards from the Associated Church Press, the Religion Communicators Council and the Religion News Association. The Catholic Media Association named Chris one of its 2024 Writers of the Year. He is the author of five books on humanitarian themes, most recently Solidarity and Mercy: The Power of Christian Humanitarian Efforts in Ukraine, published by Morehouse. 

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Monday Starter: Salesians mark UN's World Water Day

A global Mercy movement reaches out to girls in need

Monday Starter: CSW meetings to focus on 30 years since Beijing Declaration

Q&A with Sr. Roxanne Schares, new associate executive secretary of UISG

After a week of heartbreak about Ukraine, truth still wins out

As third anniversary of war looms, Ukrainian Catholics cling to hope

Slander aside, foreign aid wins goodwill for US — and saves lives

Sisters alarmed by Trump's gutting of US foreign aid

'People can't live in Haiti safely': Sisters struggle to serve surrounded by gangs

For a Florida parish, Haitian self-determination is paramount

Monday Starter: Tracker adds Nigeria, Chad to countries where women face crises