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Ante el aumento de detenciones y deportaciones en los tribunales de inmigración de EE. UU., la Hna. Leticia Gutiérrez ha redimensionado el ministerio de acogida de su parroquia en El Paso, Texas. Ahora, junto a un equipo de voluntarios, la religiosa acompaña a los migrantes en su proceso legal. "Tenemos que ver cómo acompañar a la familia y cómo involucramos a la parroquia (...), porque la separación familiar se sigue dando y, aunque se habla poco, es una realidad", indicó la scalabriniana.

When it comes to advocating for the marginalized, women religious "have the history even before some of the member states became members of the U.N.," Sr. Mary Jane Caspillo said.

Doreen Ajiambo, Global Sisters Report's Africa regional correspondent, has been honored for her reporting during last year's United Nations climate summit, or COP29.

Sr. Jean Dolores Schmidt, the longtime chaplain for Loyola Chicago's men's basketball team, has retired at 106 because of health concerns.

The "guardian angel of East St. Louis," Daughter of Charity Sr. Julia Huiskamp offers practical services as well as emotional support to the locals living in deep poverty.

 The sisters said they had been sent to a care home against their will, and on Sept. 4 — with the help of a former student and a local locksmith — they returned to their quarters at the monastery.

"The mentality," according to what Catherine Corless has heard people say, was "that these children were 'the sin of the mother.'

La Hna. Judy Bisignano, conocida como la 'Hermana Jaguar', dedicó su vida al pueblo achuar y a la selva amazónica ecuatoriana. Después de su muerte en 2023, la organización Maketai —que cofundó y que significa ‘gracias’ en lengua achuar— sigue impulsando proyectos de ecoturismo, reforestación y educación que fortalecen la autodeterminación indígena y honran la memoria de la religiosa.