GSR Today - Global Sisters Report staff and contributors received seven awards for editorial excellence from the Associated Church Press last week during the organization's annual meeting in Chicago. Two more recent awards came from the Religion Communicators Council.

Our Lady of Sion Sr. Patricia Fox has been in the news almost daily in the Philippines since her 22-hour detention by the Bureau of Immigration. GSR spoke with Fox at her Quezon City home, where she is a familiar face in the neighborhood. Neighbors, associates and friends as well as tricycle drivers were surprised to learn about her case.

"How in our day can we understand cosmic redemption? At a time of advancing ecological devastation, what would it mean to rediscover this biblical sense of the natural world groaning, hoping, waiting for liberation?"

The Philippines' immigration bureau has revoked the missionary visa of Australian Sister Patricia Fox over her alleged involvement in "partisan political activities."

Recently I shared with the sisters in my local community a song I learned in third grade about the kookaburra bird. Little did I know that the kookaburra would teach me a lesson a few days later.

Elizabeth Johnson is retiring from full-time teaching and university-related work so she can better attend to her own quest for God, both spiritually as a Sister of St. Joseph and as an academic theologian — two vocations that cannot be separated for her.

Notes from the Field - The communal section of Pendus is rural and reaching it can mean multiple modes of transportation and an entire day of travel. But when I talk to people there, I find they are amazingly mobile, connected to the larger cities in Haiti and to countries across the ocean.

"Sometimes, when we are together, it is the only time they are not working. Every day, they are working and working, and then we come to church and we sing together."

Amman, Jordan - A nurse from Sri Lanka, Salvatorian Sr. Theresa Perera spends weekdays helping migrant workers obtain the health care they need with Caritas Jordan and weekends planning gatherings and outings to ensure they have a bit of fun amid their busy work schedule.

Fighting for women's humanity is often like "fanning the face of the sun with a feather. But someone has to do it."