After 60 years in religious life, Reiley has worked in Japan with cancer patients and their families, day laborers, refugees, children from troubled homes and communities recovering from disaster.
Combining her advanced surgical training with her vocation as a Franciscan Missionary of Mary, Long has spent decades providing critical, life-altering healthcare to underserved populations in Madagascar, Papua New Guinea and parts of Africa.
A member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and an expert in conducting research using denominational records, Sunny Jane Morton has recently published the book Searching for Sisters.
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.
