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… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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, …

… bags filled with water that are the most popular way for people to get drinking water in Ghana. The collaborative donated two other water sachet machines to other congregations in Ghana. The collaborative is supported by the Conrad N. Hilton Fund. "With the water, we're …

… hospital, St. Michael's Catholic Hospital – Pramso, to understand more about health care in Ghana and Frimpong's challenges as a female administrator in the patriarchal medical environment. … you're not qualified. I have a master's degree in governance and leadership from GIMPA [the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration] in Accra. So it's not really about me …

… by the Taliban See also Q & A with Sr. Angelina Gerharz, founder of Porter Girls Project in Ghana by Melanie Lidman, published on Global Sisters Report …

… Melanie Lidman … Madina market in northeastern Accra, the capital of Ghana, is a riot of colors and smells: dried fish heaped on top of hampers filled with wiggling … Sr. Angelina Gerharz, 72, a Holy Spirit Sister who is originally from Germany but has been in Ghana for 48 years, founded the Porter Girls Project in 2010. Global Sisters Report recently …

… Faces and stories of brothers and sisters from places like Bangladesh, Indigenous Nations, Ghana, Cartaret Islands, and Central America appear at unexpected moments. As I find myself in a …

… arrests came after she'd spent 33 years teaching science and running schools in Nigeria and Ghana. In the late 1980s and 1990s she returned to the United States twice from Africa to help …

… cost of hunger. Reporting from Burkina Faso , a western Africa country sandwiched between Ghana and Mali, they explain that nearly one-third of the children there suffer from a form of …

… in Des Moines to celebrate International Women’s Day, I heard of the struggle of women from Ghana and other countries in Africa. As a sister Ambassador on the Planet, I am spreading the …

… Adrian Dominican sister from Michigan. After teaching elementary and junior high, she lived in Ghana, West Africa and Kenya with indigenous religious sisters in their initial formation … hermana dominica adrianense de Michigan. Después de enseñar en primaria y secundaria, vivió en Ghana, África Occidental y Kenia con religiosas indígenas en sus programas de formación inicial. …

… final vows, Fajaro went to North Carolina, where she taught for three years, then in Ghana for a year and a half. After that she went to Utah, where she became a certified legal … with companies where we can put pressure on them to improve their practices. For example, in Ghana, children are being used to pick cocoa beans. But if we’re shareholders in Hershey, we have …

… of the deadly Ebola virus in the region. Flanigan took the last flight to neighboring country Ghana before routes were shut down Aug. 31. His hockey bags contained some of the first …

… sales worldwide is because 70 percent of the world’s cocoa beans come from the Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria and Cameroon. Although none of the countries have been hit in the current Ebola …

… Since the SLDI program started in 2007, 2,100 sisters have participated in courses in Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi and South Sudan. HESA started …