The resourcefulness of ordinary people has much to teach us. How could we apply it to consecrated life in today's India? How do we live through the energy crisis in the spirit of the Gospel?
In 2022, the Daughters of the Redeemer launched the Community Transformation Programme, which supports five Zambian villages with agricultural mentorship, nutrition programs, and water, sanitation and hygiene activities.
The day we inaugurated a protected water source in a village in Congo, women sang. Children danced. One elder said, "Today, our daughters get their future back." Moments like this remind me why this work is sacred.
Across northern and eastern Kenya, prolonged droughts have stretched for years, and communities are forced to move constantly in search of water and pasture. For pregnant women, the consequences are severe.
The Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary's efforts in sinking wells and installing water pumps have been instrumental in improving access to clean water and raising living standards in Mongu district.
Across Vietnam's flood-battered central provinces, nuns observed Christmas quietly, scaling back celebrations to redirect resources to those whose homes, crops and livelihoods were swept away by storms and floods.
How can I ignore Christ himself being born this Christmas as a tiny helpless babe when I turn a deaf ear to his whimper in the cry of the poor and the Earth's weakening plight?
At their farm in central Kenya, the Assumption Sisters of Nairobi sustainably curb environmental degradation through non-till practices, agroforestry, and other ways of improving tree cover and soil health.
