COP21 Paris - As the second day of the International Tribunal on the Rights of Nature opened in the packed auditorium of Maison des Métallos, a cultural center in the heart of Paris, a disturbing word was shared about the COP21 negotiations taking place just north of the city.

Out of this context of creation that I'm puzzling over my response to Pope Francis, especially as a Global Sister. How have I, trusting my life experience, education and collaboration, responded out of the agency that we women have?

Sr. Megan Rice, a Society of the Holy Child Jesus sister, now 85, has been arrested almost 40 times and has spent some three years in jail in her quest to rid the world of nuclear weapons. One might think she's been doing this all her life, but most of her activism and subsequent arrests came after she'd spent 33 years teaching science and running schools in Nigeria and Ghana.

This blog generally is about the church’s response to crises around the world. But there are some days when I just don’t know how to respond anymore.

COP21 Paris - The study, which examines 100 incidents of co-violations of human rights and rights of nature, underscores the reality that the well-being of humans and nature is inextricably linked.

“We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.”

Bumper stickers can say a lot about a person. I pay attention to bumper stickers, when I walk and when I drive. Some make me think. Others make me angry. Some make me laugh. Others can make me groan and roll my eyes.

GSR Today - Global Sisters Report and National Catholic Reporter editors led a two-day planning and brainstorming gathering at National Catholic Reporter Publishing Company’s headquarters Dec. 1-2 with full-time GSR staff and contributors to plan expanding reporting coverage in Latin America.

For Christians in India and other parts of Asia, dialogue with people of other religions is not a debate or attempt to persuade the other person. Nor is it a forum to compare and contrast one's religion with another. Instead, it is a platform to learn from one another's religious traditions and values, insights and experiences, in a process of sharing.

Sr. Mary Francis Wangare is worried about the young people in Kenya. The Franciscan sister knows that, in Kenya, young people are most at risk of religious radicalization. To combat the threat of radicalization, she wants to create better relationships between the Christians and Muslims.