Ministry

The Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life at Georgetown University organized a panel highlighting the downstream and life-or-death effects of the recent cuts to USAID.

Seeing a need and responding is in the DNA of religious communities. CPS saw a need and responded with faith and prayer. Their commitment and generosity have provided a future filled with hope for hundreds of children.

Sr. Lucia Caram, who ministers to Ukrainian war victims in Spain, shares her outrage at the heated exchange between Presidents Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

The recent fighting in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a significant escalation of a decadelong conflict, has led to nearly 3,000 deaths and the displacement of hundreds of thousands of people.

"Malnutrition, rickets and malaria are the three biggest health challenges we face here," says Sr. Juliana Ekwoanya, who works at the clinic run by Hope for the Village Child Foundation, a local nonprofit in Kaduna.

As the full-scale Russian invasion in Ukraine reached a tragic threshold of three years Feb. 24, religious sisters are bringing rays of sunshine to those who don't know how to smile anymore, including children whose carefree childhood disappeared, and farmers, whose fields are mined and useless.

By following their vocation at the Caritas Baby Hospital Bethlehem in the West Bank, the Charity sisters from India say they have been called to be sister and mother to everyone.

The dramatic rescue of a group of nuns and Catholic officials from war-torn Sudan last year highlights the shifting dynamics in a largely overlooked conflict, which may be the world's worst in terms of human suffering.