"Our mission is to console and bring hope to the hopeless and helpless in society by reflecting the merciful nature of Jesus Christ," Sr. Jeremia Mrowiec said.
"We don't have a national peace movement as it relates to nuclear weapons… It just went off people's radar," said Sr. Carol Gilbert, a prominent anti-nuclear activist.
Dublin-born Mercy Sr. Mary Killeen has spent nearly five decades transforming lives in one of Kenya's most impoverished corners. Her story is a tapestry of faith, grit and relentless service — a testament to the power of small acts done with great love.
The new foreign agents law in El Salvador is "a copy of the one in Nicaragua with the same objectives of social control and control of criticism against human rights abuses," said one political analyst.
Activists are fighting a copper mine planned for a site sacred to Apache people. "Religious freedom for Christians looks one way right now, and religious freedom for Native Americans another," said a Loretto Community co-member.
"We cannot preach peace while people are bleeding and starving," an Oblate sister in Goma told Global Sisters Report. Congolese Catholics pleaded for help amid ongoing violence.
For decades, Nigeria has remained in the news for being a source, transit and destination country for human trafficking. Sr. Ebegbulem spoke to GSR about her work and passion for fighting human trafficking in the country.
