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… and learn, said Sr. Faustina Hasford, superior general of the Society of the Infant Jesus in Ghana, which has 66 sisters in four dioceses working in schools, parishes and health clinics. …

… Terese Mumuni, founder of the Nazareth Home for God's Children in the West African country of Ghana. The home is a place of healing for children with mental, behavioral and physical …

… living outside the United States. Then in my congregation, I ministered in Uganda, Ghana, and in leadership in the congregation, and I have visited a number of countries visiting …

… Cali, Colombia, was in Darién working on a project when she learned the story of five men from Ghana who drowned crossing the Chucunaque River in 2015 as they made their way north to the … she dedicated a year to researching it and documenting it in film and photography. She went to Ghana to track the families down, and she contacted the Maryknoll sisters for help in bringing … On Wednesday, Chois came to the pastoral center with Abdullah Audu Salisu, an artist from Ghana's capital of Accra who had come to see the graves and represent the families of the lost …

… how God transcends beyond our imagining," she says, recalling celebrations during her time in Ghana. "It was very, very different than the way we celebrate. The holy was expressed in so many …

… Ghanaian and an American. Together we also work with provincial and regional teams in Nigeria, Ghana, France, the United States, England and Ireland. As most leaders would agree, team building … Nigerian tribes, with cultures and languages that I had never heard of. I also met women from Ghana, because the novitiate was international. Later, when sent to apostolic communities, we …

… series, which can be found in total here , included: The fight against illegal gold mining in Ghana , where foreign countries have set up mines on church land with no regard to the law or the … found here , included: What daily life looks like at the Agbogbloshie electronic waste dump in Ghana, where there are no public toilets and no potable water, and residents have to buy a squirt …

… indigenous farmers' rights and destroys natural environments, most recently in Cameroon and Ghana. Experiencing the Nairobi group's surprise and joy in learning about the SDGs and …

… captured the headlines, further decreasing Ethiopian international adoption. Thirteen-year-old Hana Williams, who had been adopted from Ethiopia three years earlier,  was beaten and starved to …

… Electronic waste: Informal economy supports thousands in Ghana slum …

… Sr. Faustina Hasford, superior general, Society of the Infant Jesus, Ghana: … We in Ghana engage in health care, but we had never thought of health care as related to the …

… anchor and reporter in Tennessee, Virginia, and North and South Carolina. After moving to Ghana to manage communications for a nonprofit, Challenging Heights , she first filed video …

… I had friends, I would go," he says in English. "But it takes money." He came to Sicily from Ghana to escape political unrest. His mother, father and brother are dead, he explains, looking …

… ridges. It is in this place that three Sisters of St. Louis, two from Nigeria and one from Ghana, are making their new home. The popular story in the international media is that the … everything about it was just, I can't even express it," says Sr. Benedicta Boakye-Yiadom, from Ghana, as she recalled the first week in Dawhan. "Our first Sunday when we went to Mass, we took … the experience while I'm still young." Boakye-Yiadom had never been on a mission outside of Ghana, though she had worked in rural areas in her own country. "I'm used to [Ghana's] culture, …

… broadly over the West Africa region, Samuel Zan Akologo, the executive secretary of Caritas Ghana, said he was not pessimistic but acknowledged that, for a number of countries struggling to … of women, work for peace and justice and more. The Nigerian Province includes Nigeria, Ghana, and Burkina Faso. [Chris Herlinger is  GSR 's international correspondent. His email …

… of Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet, for example, has coassociates, consociates, Ohana, and the Familia de San Jose. How to become an associate is just as dependent on the …

… Sodom and Gomorrah has 100,000 residents and no schools. The infamous slum in the south of Ghana's capital of Accra is actually Old Fadama, but everyone outside calls it Sodom and … urban settlement is a crowded maze of ad-hoc buildings where transplanted refugees from Ghana's severely underdeveloped northern region live. Sodom and Gomorrah is its derogatory … who cook in the alleys. Want a drink of water? There's no potable water here (or in all of Ghana), so a plastic bag of water called a water sachet is 20 pesewas (U.S. 5 cents). Need to go …

… is to be aware of what is inside and out , published on Global Sisters Report Image from Ghana's once-laudable health insurance plan puts Catholic hospital at financial risk , published …

… ward in the city. But the hospital is struggling financially due to a delay in payments from Ghana's National Health Insurance Scheme , which is more than eight months behind, forcing the … of the population had insurance, said Selorm Adonoo, the deputy director of communications for Ghana's National Health Insurance Authority. The 11.2 million members can access health care at …

… are perched at the edge of the pit, with a few kids darting among them. One might expect that Ghana's illegal gold mining would be carried out hidden from public view, surreptitiously, … country is Africa's second-biggest gold producer , after South Africa, yet only 16 percent of Ghana's tax revenues come from gold mining, according to the Ghanaian government's Minerals … said Richard Ellimah, the executive director of the Center for Social Impact Studies , a Ghana-based advocacy and research group focused on the extractive industries. The city of 180,000 …