GSR Today

This Christmas, embrace the 11th Commandment: 'Thou shall not be alone'

By Julia Gerwe
Dec 22, 2021
Retreat participants of the St. Joseph Worker Program of Orange, California, received shells representing the Camino de Santiago as a sign that we are pilgrims on our faith journey. (Courtesy of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Orange)

A pilgrimage lesson offers a path to purpose

By Jaesen Evangelista
Dec 15, 2021
Fifth year (Unsplash/Anirudh)

Meet the new sisters panel for the fifth year of The Life

By GSR Staff
Nov 29, 2021
A demonstrator holds up a sign at an Oct. 1 Fridays for Future climate strike in Milan, Italy, ahead of the Oct. 31-Nov. 12 U.N. Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Scotland. (CNS/Reuters/Flavio Lo Scalzo)

Save the planet: Sister-related updates from COP26, the UN climate change conference

By GSR Staff
Nov 09, 2021
Typing on a laptop (Pixabay/fancycrave1)

Global Sisters Report wants your opinions and ideas

By Gail DeGeorge
Nov 03, 2021
Volunteers for Catholic Relief Services in Zambia preparing a demonstration meal, stressing the need to use local crops and ingredients in meals. (Catholic Relief Services/Dooshima Tsee)

Inequities in world's food system have only worsened during pandemic

By Chris Herlinger
Oct 15, 2021

GSR writer wins first-place award for stories of emerging religious communities

By Gail DeGeorge
Oct 08, 2021
Members of Taliban forces check a vehicle on a street in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Aug. 16. (CNS/Reuters)

One Catholic sister's harrowing tale of escaping Kabul

By Joyce Meyer
Sep 23, 2021
The planning committee for the Aug. 23-26 assembly for the Association of Consecrated Women of East and Central Africa, or ACWECA, pose for a photo ahead of the 2021 assembly. (Courtesy of ACWECA)

ACWECA's 2021 assembly shows the perseverance and strength of African sisters

By Joyce Meyer
Sep 16, 2021
Good Shepherd Sr. Eva Ribeiro, in white blouse, and project manager Pirai Oriente, in red T-shirt with white trim, work with displaced families from Cabo Delgado province, Mozambique. (Courtesy of Eva Ribeiro)

Good Shepherd sisters in Mozambique minister to refugees fleeing crisis

By Joyce Meyer
Sep 13, 2021
Firefighters walk amid rubble near the base of the destroyed south tower of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. (CNS/Reuters)

9/11 anniversary stirs memories of New York and Afghanistan

By Chris Herlinger
Sep 09, 2021
Sr. Caryn Crook, vocation director for the Sisters of St. Francis of the Neumann Communities, enjoys the view of Green Lake while members of the House of Discernment community visited Syracuse, New York, in late April. (Julie A. Ferraro)

From Franciscans in Pennsylvania, on to new adventure with Benedictines in Kansas

By Julie A. Ferraro
Sep 08, 2021
Sisters and members of the Archdiocese of Juba, South Sudan, attend the Aug. 20 burial of Srs. Mary Daniel Abut and Regina Roba, Sisters of the Sacred Heart who were killed when their bus was attacked Aug. 16. (Courtesy of Christy John)

Amid tragedies in Haiti, South Sudan and Afghanistan, sisters endure

By Joyce Meyer
Aug 23, 2021
Sisters in the Adrian Dominican auditorium in Adrian, Michigan, give Dominican Sr. Elise García a standing ovation at the conclusion of her Aug. 11 presidential address to the Leadership Conference of Women Religious. (GSR screenshot)

Catch up on GSR's coverage of the 2021 LCWR annual assembly

By Pam Hackenmiller
Aug 19, 2021
A choir of young women in Good Shepherd ministries in Sri Lanka open the July 30 webinar on the rights of girls in Asia and the Pacific. (GSR screenshot)

Girls can speak for themselves, and Good Shepherd Sisters are amplifying their voices

By Joyce Meyer
Aug 18, 2021
(Unsplash/Melissa Askew)

Become like children and reclaim our connection with wisdom

By Joyce Meyer
May 26, 2021
Schoolchildren walk past an Afghan National Army soldier keeping watch at a checkpoint on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan, April 21, 2021. (CNS/Reuters/Mohammad Ismail)

Ethical quandary looms on eve of US military withdrawal from Afghanistan

By Chris Herlinger
May 20, 2021
At the New York Botanical Garden, I was awed at the glorious lilac bush in the hills of daffodils. Hundreds of bees were dancing and humming within the bush, making me feel so small in a world so big. (Courtesy of Maddie Thompson)

A year of embracing growth as a mixed, Korean American woman

By Celina Kim Chapman
May 12, 2021

Bringing attention to exploited obedience, spiritual abuse in religious communities

By Joyce Meyer
Apr 28, 2021

How living simply and intentionally can help you live sustainably

By Celina Kim Chapman
Apr 28, 2021