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Sr. Gloria Gonzales, a Colombian Dominican Sister of the Presentation, prioritizes care and understanding in education, rather than punishing children, at the Missionary Center Maripuspal in Corail, Haiti.

Upon seeing Lisa Elmaleh's camera, the Catholic sisters and volunteers at migrant shelters whom Elmaleh met along the U.S.-Mexico border "understand they're being documented in a historic way." 

Crossing the United States-Mexico border is only the beginning for migrants who don't plan on building a home on the finish line. But migrants throughout the U.S. can look to women religious whose ministries direct them to essential services for resettling.

Monday Starter – LCWR encourages its members to meet virtually the 10 women nominated for president-elect or the national board; communication platform launches, free for sisters; archivist sister honored

Sr. Maureen ("Marie Timothy") Fay, known for her pioneering roles in Catholic higher education, died May 27, 2021, in her 68th year as an Adrian Dominican. 

The plight of seafarers is distant to those on land. An international campaign brings it to the fore, educating the public on the link between products and who delivers them, and encouraging corporations to examine suppliers' human rights practices.

Monday Starter - The Confederation of Latin American and Caribbean Religious to convene online; the new Theological Institute for Religious Life in the Americas; "70 Over 70" podcast kicks off with Sr. Helen Prejean.

Monday Starter: Sisters given $1,000 each to help others share how they spent it; A week of events puts the pope's environmental encyclical into action; GSR hosts virtual conversation with Nuns and Nones.

Monday Starter - Eviction moratoriums get struck down; 38 families in El Salvador have their own water now; the "Giving Voice Encuentro" is on for August; Sr. Lou Ella Hickman's poems have been set to music

Catholic sisters and congregational representatives advocating at the U.N., as well as sisters involved in on-the-ground ministries, give U.S. President Joe Biden generally high marks for his first 100 days in office.

Monday Starter – Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration go to the border; Maryknoll webinar to honor the legacy of Ursuline Sr. Dianna Ortiz; highlighting #SistersEmpoweringWomen on social media.

The latest deadline for the federal eviction moratorium is June 30, and some sisters have been organizing fundraisers for rent and utility relief, hoping to help people chip away at their growing bills now.

As U.S. women and men religious become more diverse culturally and ethnically, leadership and membership of their religious communities face the challenge of how to welcome new members and adjust religious life to these new cultural changes, according to a recent study.

President Joe Biden fulfilled a campaign promise when he ended the Migrant Protection Protocols that forced more than 70,000 asylum-seekers to wait for their U.S. court dates in Mexican border cities. But no concrete plan emerged in its place.

Spotlighting the root causes and intersections of human trafficking, the Shine the Light virtual conference demonstrated the range of people and concrete actions needed to combat trafficking effectively.

The robust sense of community in religious life is now a luxury, if not a health risk. That's left sisters who live alone or are otherwise removed from their congregations to find new outlets for deeper connection.

Dominican Sr. Liz Engel has long been concerned about the need to place children in adoptive families rather than foster care, but the ongoing pandemic has heightened the stakes.

GSR Today - With Sr. Norma Pimentel as the film's "heroine," the audience can see the realities on the border in a "highly compassionate, not preachy way," says Robert Bilheimer, director of the 10-minute documentary.

Prayer marathons, informational seminars, survivor panels, and an international Twitterstorm are just some of the many activities taking place Feb. 8 for the International Day of Prayer and Awareness Against Human Trafficking.

Scalabrini Sr. Nyzelle Dondé directs Pastoral de Movilidad Humana, the Honduran bishops' migrant ministry, which has adjusted to both the coronavirus and two hurricanes that struck in November.