Doreen Ajiambo

Catholic and faith representatives will join global leaders and national delegates Nov. 11-22 in Baku, Azerbaijan, host to the United Nations climate change conference, COP29. 

With their eyes on the U.S. presidential election, Catholic sisters throughout the world consider how the policies of each candidate could impact those they serve in ministry.

The allure of quick cash through fishing is leading to alarming rates of school absenteeism and dropouts in Port Victoria, a town on the shores of Lake Victoria along the Kenya-Uganda border, advocates say.

ASEC initially brought sisters from Africa to the U.S. for training. Since its founding in 1999, the collaborative has evolved to offer scholarships, service opportunities and alumnae programs.

The African Sisters Education Collaborative, based on the campus of Marywood University, a Catholic school in Scranton, Pennsylvania, is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year.

Working to raise awareness for preventing the spread of the mpox virus, sisters throughout Africa help curb fatality rates.

Left without shelter or access to infrastructure following severe floods, Kenyans live in vulnerable conditions in camps for displaced people, where sisters regularly minister to them.

The religious sisters who operate Talitha Kum Zambia assist trafficking victims like Angela, who responded to an ad for a teaching job in Thailand and was instead held captive and coerced into scamming people online.

Amid the devastating effects of the Anglophone Crisis in Cameroon, Sr. Janefrancis Kinyuy struggles to balance keeping children safe, providing education, and being the hope needed for society.

 Dozens of sisters from the Association of Sisterhoods of Kenya gathered June 14 in Nairobi for the launch of a media-training project, the Communication Network for Catholic Sisters.

At St. Josephine Bakhita Babies Home in Busia, western Kenya, religious sisters and social workers take in abandoned and orphaned newborns in a region that has seen rising cases of incest and maternal mortality.

Roughly 100 sisters came together in Lusaka, Zambia, for a gathering organized by the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation's Catholic Sisters Initiative, May 29-31, to collaborate and share best practices.

To celebrate Uganda Martyrs Day, June 3, sisters joined millions of pilgrims across Africa in a trek to the Namugongo Catholic Shrine in Kampala, honoring the dozens of martyrs burned alive in the late 1880s.

Hundreds of African sisters join a mass pilgrimage to the Uganda Martyrs Shrine of Namugongo, ahead of the June 3 Martyrs Day celebrations, honoring the dozens of Christians killed for their faith in the 1880s.

Sr. Amala Ranee Santiago, a member of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Cluny, has been administrator of St. Joseph's School for the Hearing Impaired in Makeni, Sierra Leone, since 2009. 

Sisters from six African countries gathered in Entebbe, Uganda, to learn strategies and income-generating ideas for their ministries, largely in social services.

Catholic leaders and sisters have rescued thousands of children and young girls in Sierra Leone from sexual abuse, offering guidance and counseling, justice and education.

After Sr. Angela Mbalu Bangura became the provincial superior of her congregation, her objective as a leader was to unify all three West African provinces in Sierra Leone, Ghana and Gambia, which are under her authority.

"We have been targeting extremely poor households and asking well-wishers in the church to help us reach out to more people," said Sr. Matilda Mubanga.

With Malawi and other southern African countries still reeling nearly 10 months after Cyclone Freddy, Catholic sisters gathered to learn advocacy skills to lobby on the neglected survivors' behalf.