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Pandemic vignettes

Lovers of the Holy Cross nuns hold a "Christmas market" serving food with budget prices to local people on Dec. 12 at Pho Thach Parish in Phong Dien District of Thua Thien Hue Province, Vietnam. (Peter Nguyen)

Re-creating Christmas: In global pandemic, sisters adapt their celebrations

Sisters worldwide are finding ways to highlight the season with the people they minister to and within their own communities, despite COVID-19 restrictions. Here's a sampling of such efforts from around the world.

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Notre Dame Sr. Mary Rashmi Mattappally teaches Masai women in Simanjiro, Tanzania, in fall 2019. (GSR file photo)

Checking in on sisters around the world: COVID-19 has constrained ministries

By GSR Staff

Amid pandemic, women religious persevere in ministries to those in need

By GSR Staff
The administration and nursing staff of St. Joseph Villa, the retirement community of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Philadelphia, encourage people to stay home to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. (Courtesy of Sisters of St. Joseph of Philadelphia)

While keeping their distance under lockdown, sisters adjust with grace

By GSR Staff

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

'We haven't lost Christ in this': sisters under COVID-19 lockdown

Keeping up community: what sisters are doing amid COVID-19 lockdowns

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