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.
Sisters and clergy attending meetings assessing the United Nations' sustainable development goals affirmed the progress they see in small-scale projects. However, they say the 2030 deadline is not realistic.
Catholic sisters created a nonprofit to help financially vulnerable women achieve economic sustainability and overall independence. Women Partnering has helped over 5,400 women and 5,000 children since its opening in 2001.
At an international migration conference held in Mexico City this month, Josephine Sr. María Magdalena Silva Rentería and fellow panelists shared the reality of the migration crisis as seen from Mexico's capital.
The Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament sold their convent in Philadelphia and moved into a retirement community, a Lutheran facility where most of the other residents are Jewish and much of the staff is Muslim.
"My first appointment was in a conflict area, so you could say my religious journey was among war victims on the battlefield. I lived my religious life in the war zones for 26 years and even after the war."
"For the past forty years, [Sr. Hilkert] has leavened and led the theological community in major academic institutions, international venues, and our guild itself," said president Kristin Heyer at the ceremony.
As the administrator of the St. Joseph's Home for Children near Zagreb, Croatia, Sr. Marija Lucija Eršek gives children safety, structure and order — things that they often do not have in their families.