Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich, two orders of nuns, and a pharmacist sued Illinois Sept. 3 over the state's physician-assisted suicide law, which permits physicians to aid terminally ill adults in dying by suicide.
The African Conference for Catholic Sisters in Canon and Civil Law acknowledged that for safeguarding to be inherent in sisters' everyday life, it must be woven into formation and nurtured throughout their vocation.
"Most transgender persons do not want charity. They want love. They want their parents to accept them, their siblings to stand beside them, and society to treat them with dignity," said Sr. Amitha Polimetla.
In her cosmetology and health ministry, Daughter of Charity Sr. Oanh Tran restores clients' dignity, cutting like a surgeon through matted hair, washing and sometimes mending their feet, and listening to their stories.
Three Daughters of Charity were among 13 people who filed a high-profile impeachment complaint against Vice President Sara Duterte, accusing her of corruption.
Operating outside the bureaucracy of Kenya's formal shelter system, at least 10 Catholic convents across Kenya have turned their peaceful residences into informal safe havens for domestic abuse survivors.
