by Dorothy Fernandes
Contributor
May 21, 2019
When a suicide bomber hit a Central Reserve Police Force bus in February, India received the news with shock and horror. Our response was one of shame.
by Thomas Scaria
May 21, 2019
Sr. Samantha Kuruppuarachchi is the only Catholic nun who was directly affected by the Easter Sunday bombings in Sri Lanka. She lost her sister, Wales Indira Kuruppuarachchi, and her sister's husband, Sanath Rohan Fernando, in the April 21 blasts at St. Sebastian's Church in Negombo, and her community has given her a year's leave of absence to help care for her niece and two nephews.
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by Maryann Agnes Mueller
May 20, 2019
When Catholic Charities asked the Felician congregation if it would be possible to use their convent to house asylum-seekers, the sisters and a small army of volunteers worked tirelessly to feed, clothe and shelter 50 weary guests.
by Doreen Ajiambo
May 20, 2019
Sr. Lilly Manavalan from the Franciscan Clarist congregation applies her passion for serving the impoverished toward the rescue of children who have been abandoned due to the stigma of HIV. Manavalan, a nurse, brings the children to St. Clare Girls' Centre, a home where they receive medicine, treatment and compassion.
by Joyce Meyer
International Liaison, Global Sisters Report
May 20, 2019
GSR Today - Last summer, at a meeting of the Dominican Sisters of Peace, I met a number of Vietnamese sisters who were part of a 1975 migration from Vietnam. My curiosity was piqued as I learned that each found her way to the Kentucky Dominicans and later as a group to the Dominican Sisters of Peace.
Thomas Scaria is a senior journalist based in India who has worked in Sri Lanka until recently in an intergovernmental organization. He has written for the Union of Catholic Asian News since 1991 and received its 2000 Best Reporter award. He also writes for Matters India, a news portal that focuses on religious and social issues and collaborates with Global Sisters Report.
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May 17, 2019
Horizons - It's normal to hold out hope that things will go back to what we once knew, what made sense to us. Yet, I also struggle with the longing for things to be as they once were. What if God is changing the way things work right in front of us, and we're not paying attention?
by Maxine Kollasch
Contributor
May 17, 2019
From A Nun's Life podcasts - In this Random Nun Clip, Sr. Mindy Welding of the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
Maryann Agnes Mueller is a Felician Sister of North America. Before her entrance into the congregation, she worked as a dietician and research tech in cholesterol metabolism. Later, she worked as a certified diabetes educator and taught science in high school. Now, she serves as the full-time justice and peace coordinator for the Felician Sisters of North America in Enfield, Connecticut, and edits the congregational justice and peace newsletter. She serves on several boards; among them is U.S.
May 16, 2019
Online child sexual abuse is a booming international business and religious congregations holding stocks in major telecom firms are stepping up their advocacy to thwart it.