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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Violence begets violence, Catholic sisters say, about airstrikes on Syria

Dominicans, students join global town hall of UN meeting on women

UN women's commission agrees on measures to empower rural women and girls

Q & A with Sr. Joanna Chan, playwright who finds inspiration in the Gospels

Improvements come to Haiti slowly but surely

At UN development meetings, sisters present pathways to eradicate poverty

Q & A with two sisters and a volunteer serving at the Haiti-Dominican Republic border

Presidents Day takes place amid US struggles with division, identity

At Haitian-Dominican border, shelter protects children vulnerable to human trafficking

Q & A with Sr. Jean Quinn, bringing congregations together at the UN

One year into Trump presidency, US foreign policy frustrates UN sisters

Q & A with Sr. Jane Remson, teaching Laudato Si' to high school students

2017 was the year I started to take peace more seriously

Women religious, bishops denounce US withdrawal from UN talks on migration, refugees

Q & A with Sr. Leema Rose, training health professionals in a war environment

It is our duty to liberate people from poverty

Q & A with Sr. Joan Dawber, providing secure housing for victims of trafficking

Working without a lot of fanfare in a time of blaring self-promotion

Haiti's fragility of infrastructure, strength of people remain one year after Hurricane Matthew

Q & A with Sr. Carla Magnaghi, caring for people with disabilities in South Sudan