Sociologist Marla Asis discusses a Vatican-commissioned report documenting how Catholic sisters across Asia serve migrants, refugees and left-behind families with resourceful, holistic and distinctly Catholic care.
Carmelite Missionaries in Quezon City help homeless people look for work, secure government documents, access medical and dental care, learn livelihood skills and, whenever possible, find a path toward stable housing.
The Africa Faith and Justice Network is tackling child labor and domestic servitude in Nigeria with advocacy, awareness campaigns, economic empowerment, and partnership with government and traditional institutions.
Founded in 1972 as a joint initiative between the Sisters of St. John the Baptist and the Zambian government, St. Joseph's School for the Deaf aims to meet the needs of an expanding population of deaf children.
Now the administrator of the Caritas Philippines Development Center, Taboclaon previously served as the first Filipina to lead the Sisters of Charity of Our Lady of Good and Perpetual Help in her country.
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.
