Doreen Ajiambo, Global Sisters Report's Africa regional correspondent, has been honored for her reporting during last year's United Nations climate summit, or COP29.
At Presentation Arts Center in St. Louis, Missouri, Daughters of Charity offer a variety of creative programs for locals who otherwise wouldn't have access to the arts.
"They acted on their wits; I am just so full of admiration for them. They knew what was ahead: arrest, torture and deportation, execution. The risks were enormous," said Clodagh Finn, author of The Irish in the Resistance.
GSR celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2024 by bringing to readers updated versions of some of its first reported stories in 2014, as well as two powerful series, "Welcoming the Stranger" and "Evolving Religious Life."
GSR Today - Often, after a sister publishes a column, columns editor Sr. Helga Leija receives emails from readers who are deeply moved by the messages. Here, she shares a particularly beautiful one.
For nearly two years, the Benedictine Abbey of Sainte-Marie des Deux-Montagnes in Canada opened its doors to filmmaker Lessandro Sócrates, resulting in the documentary "De l'autre côté" ("On the Other Side").
"My superiors were skeptical when I expressed my desire to study journalism, an unconventional choice within the convent walls," writes Sr. Adelaide Ndilu. "The fulfillment of my dream was worth the wait."
