Sociologist Marla Asis discusses a Vatican-commissioned report documenting how Catholic sisters across Asia serve migrants, refugees and left-behind families with resourceful, holistic and distinctly Catholic care.
For over five decades, Congregation of the Mother of Carmel Sr. Elite Mattappillil has served people with intellectual disabilities through education, vocational training and caretaking.
Good Samaritan Sr. Jaya Anto Mangalath, who began donating blood in 1987 at the age of 18, has received numerous awards for social service and for voluntary blood donation, which she calls "a simple act of love."
Gill, a Franciscan Missionary of Mary and the principal of an all-girls school in Karachi, Pakistan, hopes to save youth from exploitation through Sunday school classes and faith formation.
In her work for the pastoral care of migrants at the U.S. bishops' conference, Sr. Joanna Okereke leads workshops that "create awareness for the bishops to know these ministries exist, that these people are in need."
Tumelo Catholic Media is shaped by the vision of Sr. Perpetua Namasiku Mutonga, a member of the Little Sisters of St. Francis and a pioneer of the Catholic media landscape in Livingstone, Zambia.
Sister Anna Maria of the Sacred Heart celebrated her 106th birthday on March 14. During the COVID-19 pandemic, she learned to use digital media as a means of evangelization.
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.
