Sr. Stella Akello has been working with young adult refugees in Chicago for the past eight years. She's now a house mother to the dozen or so 18- to 25-year-old women at Chicago's Bethany House of Hospitality.
Social Service Sr. Elizabeth Lopez is as comfortable serving a bowl of soup to migrants on one side of the border as she is fighting for them in immigration court on the other.
"Accompanying the Indigenous people and listening to their dreams has been a reaffirmation of my vocation," says Sr. Zully Rojas Quispe, provincial of the Dominican Missionaries of the Rosary in Peru.
Sr. Leah Drong, a member of the Salesian Missionaries of Mary Immaculate, built Salesian Sisters' Nursing College in Mymensingh, Bangladesh, where poor students are studying.
Former students admire Sr. Miriam Francis Perlewitz of the Maryknoll Sisters of St. Dominic for her remarkable contribution to the formation of priests in Bangladesh.
"I have a very beautiful and good community and school staff, and when you have that around you to lead you and protect you, you feel you are in safe surroundings," says Indian-born Salvatorian Sr. Suneela Polimetla.
Among the many programs Clark has established to improve and enrich offenders' lives at the Massachusetts Correctional Institution-Framingham are initiatives to help the incarcerated overcome substance abuse and trauma, as well as guide them in re-entering society after their release.
Kuzhinapurathu spoke to Global Sisters Report about various challenges faced by the religious congregations in India — dwindling vocations, aging members and the culture of working together.
As a result of the crisis between the minority Anglophone and the French-speaking Cameroonians, the plight of the refugees has become a major focus for Anikwem's congregation.