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While reporting in Indonesia, GSR correspondent Chris Herlinger was struck by the strong partnership between sisters and priests working together to support women and children.
Though they resisted labels such as "activist" and "feminist," Catholic sisters in the Philippines during the Marcos dictatorship were models for justice movements in their own quiet way.
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"What unsettles me the most is not the sophistication of the scam itself, " writes Sr. Helga Leija, "but the way it exploits the goodness of religious men and women."
While reporting in Indonesia, international correspondent Chris Herlinger finds sisters responding to natural disasters, poverty and women's issues, all on one small island.
