On the 39th anniversary of the closing of the Vietnam War, 20 percent of the countryside is still littered with thousands of unexploded bombs and munitions; the very poor have taken to diffusing them to sell for scrap, and many lives and limbs are lost each year by farmers and others who accidentally dig them up.
by Joan Brown
Women have persisted in making a difference and must continue to do so, if we are to face the greatest moral, ethical and spiritual challenge of climate change.
From a Nun's Life podcasts - Award-winning filmmaker Sr. Judy Zielinski, OSF, talks about storytelling about the lives of people as a way to bring the gospel to light.
Social gospel movement - The Brookings Institution has released Faith in Equality, a report detailing the struggles religious progressives face in dealing with economic injustice in the United States. The ecumenical report looks at the history of the social gospel movement and how the increasingly polarized nature of American politics has transformed what it means to be both religious and political.
by Joyce Meyer
International Liaison, Global Sisters Report
GSR Today - See Sr. Rosemary Nyirumbe's powerful keynote speech, which she gave at the 2014 TIME magazine The 100 Most Influential People in the World event April 30. Nyirumbe is a Sacred Heart of Jesus Sister from Uganda who works to shelter, soothe and train women and girls traumatized and displaced by Kony's reign of terror.
by Anne Kiragu
NCR Contributor
Sr. Anne Kiragu works in South Sudan and shares the secret of her inner joy and fulfillment as a consecrated person with the Daughters of St. Paul.
Daughters of St. Paul Sr. Anne Kabura Kiragu is from central Kenya. She attended Our Lady of Fatima Kiriko Girls High School , a mission school run at the time by the Assumption Sisters of Nairobi (ASN), who helped shape her interest in joining religious life. She studied philosophy at Consolata Philosophicum Nairobi, and theology at the Jesuits School of Theology, Hekima College, Nairobi She has worked in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and South Sudan and speaks Kiswahili, English, Italian and Arabic.
by GSR Staff
"For the very same kind of people Jesus attended to as he walked from Galilee to Jerusalem, sisters give themselves away. Like Jesus, they refuse to abandon the refugees that so many today call lepers. . . ."
by GSR Staff
Sr. Giovanna Rita Sguazza is the provincial of the Comboni Missionary Sisters of South Sudan, coordinating the ministries and formation of more than 50 sisters and networking with religious and civil authorities. Born in 1945, a devoted student and music lover, she left school to help support her family as a young teenager then was inspired by the mission work in Africa when she met a Comboni sister in Erba, Italy.
by Carol Stanton
Contributor
What is the legacy of the Notre Dame Sisters at Hope CommUnity Center in the small, still rural town of Apopka, Fla.? Director Sr. Ann Kendrick took a brightly colored Russian matryoshka doll off of her shelf.
