Sr. Mary Nguyen Thi Phuc of the Secular Institute of the Sacred Heart of Jesus designed a savings and credit program for women living with HIV/AIDS in Nha Trang, Vietnam. Most of the women were infected with HIV/AIDS by their husbands or boyfriends and have poor education and no vocational skills, so being able to get a start in something productive makes a difference in their lives. The money helps them start small businesses so they can support themselves and afford to send their children to school.

Since 1980, Mercy Sr. Marilyn Lacey has worked with displaced populations in the United States and in refugee camps overseas. Through her work, she had the opportunity to visit South Sudan in 1992, and the experience vastly altered the course of her life and work. In 2008, Lacey founded an organization called Mercy Beyond Borders to aid women and girls living in extreme poverty in South Sudan (and, eventually, Haiti). She spoke to Global Sisters Report about the culture of the war-torn region and the work Mercy Beyond Borders is doing.

See for Yourself - At this point in the fall presidential political season, we Americans have endured three debates among Republican presidential contenders and one Democratic presidential contenders’ debate.

Most cancer survivors will admit that they never quite stop looking over their shoulders to see if a recurrence is creeping up on them. Having been caught by surprise once, nobody wants to be blind-sided again. My initial experience of ovarian cancer came in February 2008 when I was 52 years old, a Sister of Charity of Cincinnati practicing family medicine at the U.S.-Mexico border near El Paso, Texas.

Three Stats and a Map - The conflict in Syria has resulted in millions of Syrians fleeing the country, seeking refuge elsewhere, while millions more are internally displaced. Where are they finding welcome?

"The Universe story needs to be accepted simultaneously as the human story and the story of every being in the Universe."

We don’t always know who we’re going to encounter on the Internet or in any other place where people gather. We can bump into not only the joy-filled, funny, thoughtful, and creative types, but also the surly, heart-broken, fragile, and unfriendly too! On any given day, we ourselves might be any or many of these. What can we do to bring our best selves to our online encounters with others? How can we extend hospitality online?

"We fail to see that some are mired in desperate and degrading poverty, with no way out, while others have not the faintest idea of what to do with their possessions, vainly showing off their supposed superiority and leaving behind them so much waste which, if it were the case everywhere, would destroy the planet."

Sacred Heart Sr. Florence de la Villeon and nine other sisters are training to minister to refugees in Sicily, Italy, attending to people's spiritual needs and helping to build bridges between the refugees and the Sicilian population.

"When the harvest is plenty, why are so many people left hungry?"