Kripalaya Special School is celebrating 25 years of providing education and life skills to children and adults with disabilities. GSR spoke with Sr. Anseena Memadathil, the school headmistress since 2008.
"I learned that you can inspire people in a shelter to do what they did not even think they could do, like painting. And when they find out they can paint, they appreciate what they are doing," said Sr. Pegar.
In the second of a two-part interview, two veteran congregational representatives further reflect on their long ministries at the U.N., and call for needed structural reforms to address pressing global needs.
Now retired, Sr. Winifred Doherty of Ireland and Sr. Teresa Kotturan of India remain passionate advocates for the causes they championed while in New York.
The sister of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Nagasaki, is president of Nagasaki Junshin Catholic University and is committed to educating her students on peace and nuclear disarmament.
A Franciscan Sister of the Holy Cross, Hanna is the director of one of the largest psychiatric hospitals in the Middle East, Hôpital Psychiatrique de la Croix.
Ahanihu's book explores the sustainability of religious congregations "that do not maintain a presence in the Global South" and what it means for the future of those communities in the U.S.
With hundreds of thousands of followers across TikTok and Instagram, Sr. Josefina Cattaneo from Argentina has wielded social media as a tool for evangelizing.
Scalabrinian Sr. Carla Luisa Frey Bamberg is on the front lines of Africa's trafficking crisis, as leader of the Angolan church's Episcopal Commission for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People.
