While reporting in Indonesia, international correspondent Chris Herlinger finds sisters responding to natural disasters, poverty and women's issues, all on one small island.
The Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary's efforts in sinking wells and installing water pumps have been instrumental in improving access to clean water and raising living standards in Mongu district.
Across Vietnam's flood-battered central provinces, nuns observed Christmas quietly, scaling back celebrations to redirect resources to those whose homes, crops and livelihoods were swept away by storms and floods.
How can I ignore Christ himself being born this Christmas as a tiny helpless babe when I turn a deaf ear to his whimper in the cry of the poor and the Earth's weakening plight?
At their farm in central Kenya, the Assumption Sisters of Nairobi sustainably curb environmental degradation through non-till practices, agroforestry, and other ways of improving tree cover and soil health.
The viral illness comes on the heels of Cuba's slow recovery from Hurricane Melissa, which made landfall Oct. 29 in Santiago de Cuba in the eastern part of the island as a Category 3 storm.
As world leaders gather in Belém, Brazil, for the COP30 climate summit, faith leaders call out the "tragic, sinful gap between the call to care for creation and the failure of governments to act."
With COP30 underway in Brazil, faith leaders say the time for polite appeals is over. From Turkana's dry fields to the Amazon's burning forests, the church is turning to action and demanding world leaders keep their promises.
