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More than 1,200 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo received healthy meals through Rise Against Hunger’s partnership with Salesian Missions. (Courtesy of Salesian Missions)

Monday Starter: Amidst violence in the world, UISG calls for global day of prayer

And Salesian sisters mark two international dates established by the United Nations — International Youth Day on Aug. 12 and World Humanitarian Day on Aug. 19.

ByChris Herlinger
]Sr. Joyce Meyer, in the center without a headpiece, joins sisters in Lusaka, Zambia, during a 2024 convening of sisters by the Conrad Hilton Foundation. (Courtesy of Joyce Meyer)

Joy is a necessary ingredient to change the injustices in our world

During these days of feeling disappointment, frustration and at times helplessness, Sr. Joyce Meyer believes it would help all of us to keep in mind the importance of joy.

ByJoyce Meyer
This illustration, provided by the Shrine of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, announces an upcoming celebration to mark the 50th anniversary of her canonization. (Courtesy of the Shrine of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton)

Monday Starter: Seton Shrine to mark saint's canonization anniversary in September

Plus, advocacy group offers an educational webinar ahead of World Day Against Trafficking in Persons, and a California sister wins a medal in a weight lifting competition.

ByRhina Guidos
Pope Leo XIV greets people as he arrives in Castel Gandolfo, Italy, July 6, 2025, after reciting the Angelus at the Vatican. (CNS/Vatican Media)

Norah O'Donnell hopes Pope Leo XIV moves the church forward for women

CBS News senior correspondent Norah O'Donnell is watching and waiting to see how Pope Leo XIV widens Francis' legacy of elevating women within the church.

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The Nuns on Bus and Friends tour highlights voter issues for this year's election. (GSR photo/Carol Zimmermann)

Monday Starter: Network announces new executive director

Plus, the National Advocacy Center of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd responds to passing of Trump's Big Beautiful Bill.

ByRhina Guidos
Carmen Jiménez explains to visitors the Comuna 13 cemetery's wall of portraits honoring victims and their mothers. Among them are haunting composite images: half the face is that of a missing son or daughter, the other half their grieving mother — their features fused into a single, powerful symbol of loss and remembrance. (Tracy L. Barnett)

Reporter's Notebook: Walking Medellin's Comuna 13 with Carmen Jiménez

Her younger brother, Guillermo, set off for high school one day in 2002 and never came back. 

ByTracy L. Barnett
Workers from CAFEMIN, a shelter for women and families run by Josephine sisters in Mexico City, check in on the welfare of migrants living in a camp near the train tracks. Some were weighing returning home since they said they can't head north to the U.S., and Mexico makes it difficult for them to obtain documents to work and survive. (GSR photo/Rhina Guidos)

Reporter's Notebook: Mexico's changing tune on immigration

Unable to enter the U.S. to seek asylum, many migrants are finding themselves homeless, stuck and unwanted in an increasingly unfriendly Mexico.

ByRhina Guidos
Displaying a sister's profession ring are the hands of a sister from the Society of the Holy Child Jesus, one of the congregations who took part in Sexton's research. This image was used in Sexton's book cover. (Courtesy of Catherine Sexton)

How does a sister's apostolic vocation change when aging slows her activity?

In a new book called Becoming Apostolic, theologian Catherine Sexton engages Catholic sisters from five apostolic communities to discover their evolving understanding of their role in religious life.

ByJoyce Meyer

Monday Starter: Salesian Sisters leader appointed to Vatican dicastery

ByMatters India, UCA News, Chris Herlinger

Reporter's Notebook: Joy as an act of resistance in Colombia's peace community

ByTracy L. Barnett

'Not forgotten, not forgiven' say the survivors of the patronato to the church in Spain

ByHelga Leija

Monday Starter: GSR to host July 1 mental wellness forum for sisters

ByChris Herlinger

UISG assembly: Sisters in conflict zones display power of solidarity, fragility

ByJoyce Meyer

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