Sr. Shuly Pascalina Rozario, a Missionary Sister of the Immaculate, serves as a parish-level coordinator in Parintins, a town near the Amazon River in Brazil.
Sr. María Inés Castellaro, general secretary of the Latin American and Caribbean Confederation of Religious, spoke to GSR about the challenges of consecrated life in the region, and the promise of synodality.
Sr. Paulina Melite has been active since 2016 in pro-life ministry in India. Melite played a central role in organizing India's first national march for life in 2021.
Her flight disrupted by Iran's bombing of Dubai, Sr. Edith Olaguer spent six days not knowing if she might be killed from the missiles that kept falling throughout the city or get home safely.
Since 2008, she has accompanied families living inside a public cemetery, teaching Bible lessons at tombs, and finding sponsors for children's school allowances and food.
With few vocations to consecrated life in Cuba, the church relies on missionaries like Njoka to help with catechesis and to take the Gospel to places where there's a reluctance to embrace religious beliefs.
Sr. Jean Rose, a member of the Sisters of the Destitute, is the first Catholic nun to be appointed as a medical officer in a government hospital in India's Kerala state.
"Our mission has always been simple: to provide primary care to people without a hospital nearby, especially pregnant mothers from villages," Sr. Lucky Gomes told Global Sisters Report.
