Philippine Salvatorians' pioneering program protects children from abuse

Salvatorian Sr. Cyrel Peralta is the book reading program and advocacy coordinator for the Salvatorian Pastoral Care for Children program in Metro Manila, the Philippines. The program's mobile library for book reading on the Gospel and children's rights has toured communities regularly since it began in 2004. (Courtesy of Salvatorian Pastoral Care for Children)

Child advocates, former victims and even entire families who serve as advocates vouch for the difference the parish-based Salvatorian Pastoral Care for Children has made in the lives of children, teens and adults.

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Salvatorian Sr. Cyrel Peralta is the book reading program and advocacy coordinator for the Salvatorian Pastoral Care for Children program in Metro Manila, the Philippines. The program's mobile library for book reading on the Gospel and children's rights has toured communities regularly since it began in 2004. (Courtesy of Salvatorian Pastoral Care for Children)

Philippine Salvatorians' pioneering program protects children from abuse

Child advocates, former victims and even entire families who serve as advocates vouch for the difference the parish-based Salvatorian Pastoral Care for Children has made in the lives of children, teens and adults.

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Salvatorian Sr. Cyrel Peralta is the book reading program and advocacy coordinator for the Salvatorian Pastoral Care for Children program in Metro Manila, the Philippines. The program's mobile library for book reading on the Gospel and children's rights has toured communities regularly since it began in 2004. (Courtesy of Salvatorian Pastoral Care for Children)

Philippine Salvatorians' pioneering program protects children from abuse

Child advocates, former victims and even entire families who serve as advocates vouch for the difference the parish-based Salvatorian Pastoral Care for Children has made in the lives of children, teens and adults.

Sr. Minita Chisim hands out food to residents of the Bangladeshi village of Mariapolli, who lost their house, foods, and clothes in a storm April 9. Amid a cyclone May 26-27, the Congregation of Our Lady of the Missions Sisters also arranged shelter and provided food in their school for people in the southern village of Bagerhat. (Courtesy of Sr. Sukriti B. Gregory)

With storms affecting Bangladeshis, Catholic nuns offer shelter, support

Locals took refuge in sister-run schools after severe storms in May and April destroyed their homes, with sisters offering food and support in the aftermath.

Workers collect tea leaves at a plantation in Pussellawa, Sri Lanka. (Thomas Scaria)

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Sr. Judith Auma, a member of the Little Sisters of St. Francis of Assisi, plays with two children on Jan. 17 at St. Josephine Bakhita Babies Home in Busia, a town in western Kenya on the border with Uganda. Religious sisters are taking care of abandoned children, especially those born out of incest. (GSR photo/Doreen Ajiambo)

Sisters in Kenya shelter infants born of incest and high maternal mortality

At St. Josephine Bakhita Babies Home in Busia, western Kenya, religious sisters and social workers take in abandoned and orphaned newborns in a region that has seen rising cases of incest and maternal mortality.

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