Charity Durano

Charity Durano is a journalist based in the Philippines.

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Within days after the typhoon hit, Missionary Sisters of Mary sisters sort through donated goods to repack and send to various communities in need, in Lapu-Lapu City, Cebu province, in the Philippines. (Courtesy of Missionary Sisters of Mary)

Feb 03, 2022

Sisters support recovery efforts in Philippines after typhoon destruction

More than six weeks after a super typhoon raked a large swatch of the central and southern Philippines, Catholic sisters are assessing damages, repairing buildings and assisting neighbors in the storm-affected area.

Smiling Jane Ollivier with another younger girl

Mar 15, 2021

Sisters set troubled Filipino teens on course to self-sufficiency

Meet the alumni of a pair of programs started in the Philippines that help young people in trouble with the law or who are recovering from trauma and need advocacy and guidance — and the Missionaries of Mary sisters whose ACAY program provides them foundations for life.

Dec 12, 2019

Nuns' retreat house, built by Muslim benefactor, signifies interfaith bond

A civil engineer built — for free — a new, two-story retreat house for a community of Carmelite nuns in the southern Philippines. The house has multiple guest rooms and serves as a new income stream.