With their ministries and presence in towns that continue to suffer from Colombia's 50-year-long conflict, nuns contribute to the peace process through accompaniment.
Hope Amid Turmoil
In "Hope Amid Turmoil," learn about the lives, ministries and peacemaking efforts of women religious serving in places torn by conflict and violence worldwide.
Lessons in Hope Amid Turmoil
The church has promoted a wide range of human rights since the end of the 19th century. Help students learn about human rights and the church's support of such rights.
The daily routine of my life at the Salvatorian Sisters' School in Nazareth, Israel, used to be lively, with kids arriving at school with broad smiles. But the horrifying war now casts shadows of fear and insecurity.
Our recent popes have encouraged a just peace in the Middle East, and the work of peacemakers is still needed to make this hope a reality. Peacemaking is a skill that we are called to learn and practice.
To bring healing to South Sudan, Sacred Heart Sr. Mary Atimango and other sisters have gone out to provide training in nonviolence to different groups of people, including gang members.
Learning nonviolence takes time. Helping students reflect on how much violence permeates our culture is a first step in guiding them to become more aware of what they take in and how it might affect them.
Catholic sisters foster healing and reconciliation for survivors of Sierra Leone's civil war, many of whom now find themselves neighbors with former rebel soldiers who killed their families during the conflict.
Catholic sisters have done remarkable work in the challenging process of forgiveness and reconciliation in Africa; they can be models for our students as they learn more about the process of forgiveness.
During the war in Ukraine, it is important to stay alive, not to succumb to the temptation of an easy and false peace, writes Sr. Teodozija Myroslava Mostepaniuk.
First-person accounts such as Sister Teodozija's help us to understand how conflicts like the war in Ukraine affect others and how we are challenged to be in solidarity with those in terrible situations.
Catholic Sr. Agatha Chikelue and Muslim woman Alhaja Bola Usman are building the Nigeria Women of Faith Peacebuilding Network to stand up against violence and to search for peaceful coexistence in their country.
Help students learn about women peacemakers from different faiths who followed the call to end violence and conflict so all God's children can live in peace and flourish.