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GSR Today - Welcome to the seventh year of our monthly series called The Life. Our 2023-24 panel of 20 sisters will reflect on issues that impact the lives of Catholic women religious around the globe.

As the Synod on Synodality is taking place in Rome, Global Sisters Report, in conjunction with National Catholic Reporter, is offering this resource page as an easy one-stop place to find information about this historic event.

Global Sisters Report is delighted to welcome its new column editor, Benedictine Sr. Helga Leija. Sister Helga will be taking over for Ursuline Sr. Michele Morek, whose retirement will become effective on June 30.

The Associated Church Press recognized the 2022 journalism of Global Sisters Report with seven awards related to convention coverage and the war in Ukraine.

GSR Today - Welcome to the sixth year of our monthly series called The Life. Our 2022-23 panel of 20 sisters will reflect on issues that impact the lives of Catholic women religious around the globe.

Global Sisters Report, the National Catholic Reporter, and EarthBeat launched updated and newly redesigned websites on Oct. 17.

GSR won nine awards from Catholic Media Association for stories published in 2021, with many related to coverage of the effects of the pandemic. Notably, judges recognized GSR's signature series "A Just Transition."

The National Catholic Reporter Publishing Company has received a $3.3 million grant from the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation for the continuation and expansion of the online publication Global Sisters Report.

The Associated Church Press recognized the 2021 journalism of Global Sisters Report with several awards, including Awards of Excellence related to national reporting, in-depth coverage, theme issues and interviews.

Sisters at the UISG plenary included prayers for Russian President Vladimir Putin "to hold this space of goodness, even for him. The spirit of good is extraordinary." 

As the world seeks normalcy in the COVID-19 pandemic's third year, leaders and experts urge vaccination and vigilance amid complacency, vaccine opposition, economic hardship, and inequalities in vaccine access.

Few years have felt as connected to the previous one as 2021 — largely because the global pandemic of 2020 continued this year. Amid COVID-19 and other challenges, sisters served with commitment and care. Here is a rundown of 2021 as chronicled in Global Sisters Report.

GSR Today - Welcome to the fifth year of our monthly series called The Life. Our 2021-22 panel of 20 sisters will reflect on issues that impact the lives of Catholic women religious around the globe.

Global Sisters Report is supplementing NCR and EarthBeat coverage of COP26, the U.N. climate change conference in Glasgow, Scotland, with updates and dispatches sent to us by sisters and/or congregational representatives attending COP26 in person or virtually.

The killing of Sacred Heart Srs. Mary Daniel Abut and Regina Roba along a South Sudan highway Aug. 16 has shocked sisters and supporters throughout several African nations, Rome and the United States.

The Associated Church Press and the Religion Communicators Council have recognized Global Sisters Report and National Catholic Reporter for work in 2020, including reporting, columns and book reviews.

Tell us - The COVID-19 pandemic has upended all of our lives. Global Sisters Report would like you to tell us how. 

Sisters worldwide are finding ways to highlight the season with the people they minister to and within their own communities, despite COVID-19 restrictions. Here's a sampling of such efforts from around the world.

In what has become an annual tradition of assessing the year, Global Sisters Report held an extended discussion with the leaders of the International Union of Superiors General and the Leadership Conference of Women Religious. The sisters spoke with GSR on Dec. 10; the 2020 conversation, naturally, focused on the effects of COVID-19.