Rhina Guidos

A Catholic sister in Nicaragua told GSR that she feels indignation when she hears Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega and his wife, Rosario Murillo, the country's vice president, refer to themselves as Christians.

At an event organized by the Confederation of Latin American and Caribbean Religious, sisters shared experiences of helping victims and other work against human trafficking, a "profound violence to the body of humanity."

A course in September at the headquarters of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development in Rome will help women religious learn more about migrants, refugees and asylum seekers. 

It may not break summer blockbuster records, but the film "With This Light," about an orphan who became a Franciscan sister and made it her life's mission to help other orphans in her native Honduras, may melt hearts. 

Catholics at the U.S.-Mexico border, including many sisters, are working to better assess how to help migrants and to talk about what they have learned and how to go forward post-Title 42. 

The Sisters Poor of Jesus Christ announced July 3 they've left their post in Nicaragua, becoming the latest community of nuns to leave as Catholics see increasing persecution by the government.

The president of the Confederation of Latin American and Caribbean Religious encouraged women and men religious to go forward with renewed enthusiasm, compassion and greater joy amid multiple challenges.

In a meeting of women and men religious from Latin America and the Caribbean, U.S. St. Joseph Sr. Carol Zinn proposed a "new beginning" that would include groups of consecrated life from all corners of the Americas.

St. Oscar Romero was killed in a hospital chapel in San Salvador. Sisters keep his memory alive on the hospital grounds in what they consider his "shrine": a small residence they built for him at the property's entrance.

Sisters and friends celebrate Mother's Day with women and families at a migrant shelter in Mexico May 10, the day before Title 42 was set to expire.

Costa Rica has become a place where itinerant flows of people fleeing economic and political crises in Latin America mingle — some staying, some moving on — and women religious there have joined forces to respond.

It seemed like an apt thing for a spiritual son of St. Teresa of Ávila to say, "The history of the church has been made by you, women, and while you suffered." It still was a surprising thing for me to hear from a man at the ambo.

Church officials from a diocese in northern Costa Rica confirmed that they welcomed two women religious, members of the Dominican Sisters of the Anunciata, after they were expelled from Nicaragua in mid-April.

Sr. Liliana Franco said that while Latin America remains a place of pain and bloodshed, it is one where the church can help the "perpetually excluded."

Sisters who advocate for immigrants call a Biden administration proposal an asylum ban that will add to the danger migrants face when they are not be allowed to seek refuge in the U.S.

GSR Today - Call it a prompting by the Holy Spirit. When I asked to go along on a trip to Ukraine, that leap into the unknown took me on a long path of meeting Catholics who are helping victims of this terrible war.

Communities of women religious have stepped in following a 7.8 magnitude earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria Feb. 6 to help with shelter, food and other aid.

When refugees from heavily attacked eastern Ukraine arrived in the sisters' city en masse in the first few months of the war, the Basilians scrambled to offer them food, clothes and shelter at the monastery.

Organizations led by women religious in the U.S. as well as other Catholic institutions denounced those who threaten democracy and efforts that make it difficult for some U.S. citizens to vote.

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.