by GSR Staff
July 3, 2014
"The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. . . ."
by GSR Staff
July 2, 2014
"The beauty of universality is that the church is able to speak to people in whatever language they understand best – and we’re not just talking about verbal language."
July 2, 2014
Birth control access - June 30, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that certain companies are not legally obligated to cover certain birth control types for employees if doing so violates the company’s religious beliefs. While American Christians generally support a company’s right to be exemption from contraception coverage on religious grounds (55 percent of Catholics and 51 percent of Protestants agree), the topic has been widely debated, usually in terms of religious rights vs. women’s rights.
by Cova Orejas
Contributor
July 2, 2014
Sr. Cova Orejas, a Carmelite Sister of Charity, Vedruna, spent three years Lainé refugee camp in southeastern Guinea, where knowing refugee women, her teachers, was a gift from God.
Covadonga (Cova) Orejas is a member of the Carmelite Charity Sisters of Vedruna. Originally from Spain, she is now a member of the African Province. She is in charge of child protection programs in Togo and Gabon, West Africa. Orejas has been working in child protection and Justice and Peace commissions in these countries since 2005 and in collaboration with the Jesuit Refugee Service in Laine refugee camp (2002-2005) during the Liberian civil war and Ivory Coast conflict. She also worked in Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo in 2009.
by Marko Phiri
July 1, 2014
With reports that the Zimbabwean government is failing to build new schools – as thousands of pupils are out of school because parents cannot afford tuition fees – Precious Blood Sr. Ludo Ncube, CPS, can be found deep in a rural outpost in Esigodini, Mzingwane district (29 miles outside Zimbabwe’s second largest city), working against what looks like insurmountable odds to provide education to impoverished villagers.
Marko Phiri is a freelance journalist based in Zimbabwe. He has written for numerous Catholic publications including The Tablet, The Irish Catholic and America Review. He is a published author whose work also appears in the Kala
by GSR Staff
July 1, 2014
“The God of peace is never glorified by human violence.”
July 1, 2014
GSR Today - Despite severe genocide under the Pol Pot regime and the resulting political and economic fallout over the past few decades, there is an almost tangible optimism in Cambodia, which is why I love the report from Claire Schaeffer-Duffy we published last week about a Maryknoll sister ministering to sex-trafficking victims in Cambodia.
July 1, 2014
Analysis - When the Supreme Court on Monday issued a split decision narrowly backing the right of for-profit corporations to deny contraception coverage to their employees for religious reasons, many assumed that faith-based nonprofits would have it easy when their own cases eventually reach the high court.