From A Nun's Life podcasts - Sister Maxine talks with Holy Cross Sr. Sharlet Wagner, an immigration lawyer and executive director of the Newcomer Network, who addresses controversies associated with immigration.
Started by the Sisters of Holy Family of Nazareth in 1986, the Kiran Niketan Social Centre is a ray of light to marginalized and deprived migrant women in three slum areas in Sancoale, Goa, India.
Consecrated persons in Uganda have teamed up with Jesuit Refugee Service to advocate, listen and respond to the cry of urban refugees in Kampala, with assistance that includes education and child care.
A photographer and a writer join the Ajo and Tucson Samaritans to highlight the harshness of the experience of migrants who cross the U.S. border into the sprawling Sonoran Desert — where it's mostly about the water.
Felician Sr. Maria Louise Edwards, vice president of the Aguilas del Desierto, spoke to GSR in Arizona, where she was networking with church and civic groups working in border ministry.
Judy Bourg, a School Sister of Notre Dame, talks to GSR about her daily work at migrant resource center in Agua Prieta, Mexico, as well as recalls migrants' stories that motivated her to be a "link of hope."
In U.S. border communities, staff and volunteers at the Migrant Resource Center and similar organizations help migrants expelled from the country rest and get advice while they figure out their next step.
Sr. Norma Pimentel is the 50th recipient of the award, inspired by Pope John XXIII's 1963 encyclical, "Pacem in Terris" (Peace on Earth), which called all people to secure peace among the nations.
