Chris Herlinger

Chris Herlinger

Chris Herlinger is New York and international correspondent to Global Sisters Report and also writes on humanitarian, international and cultural issues for NCR. He covers the work of Catholic sisters at the United Nations, and in the last decade has reported from Ukraine, Poland, Bosnia, Croatia, South Sudan, Haiti, Lebanon, Italy, Ghana, Uganda and El Salvador, among other locales. Chris has won numerous awards from the Associated Church Press, the Religion Communicators Council and the Religion News Association. The Catholic Media Association named Chris one of its 2024 Writers of the Year. He is the author of five books on humanitarian themes, most recently Solidarity and Mercy: The Power of Christian Humanitarian Efforts in Ukraine, published by Morehouse. 

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Monday Starter: Sr. Donna Markham to retire as head of Catholic Charities USA

War, climate change, inflation: Multiple crises have led to a boom in global hunger

Monday Starter: UISG, USG joint report on synodality finds consensus for change

Hospital chains with sister roots respond to New York Times reporting

Increased nuclear threat may renew interest in disarmament, advocates say

Monday Starter: Sisters disappointed at outcome of UN nuclear disarmament meetings

Monday Starter: African sisters honored for contributing to continent's development

LCWR award honors Sr. Patricia Murray, quiet peacemaker who carries 'the hope of the transformation of lives'

Q & A with Jyoti Thottam, exploring the international history of an Indian hospital

Monday Starter: Maryknoll begins discernment process in the face of climate change

Monday Starter: Sisters in India denied compensation for COVID-19 deaths

Monday Starter: Advocates hail UN resolution on universal right to clean environment

Monday Starter: Washington Post report says DRC bishop covered up rape allegations

Monday Starter: New UISG video highlights sisters' ministries globally

Monday Starter: Mercy Sisters denounce Ohio killing, Illinois mass shooting

New book on Solidarity with South Sudan examines a 'communal journey' of religious

The next step in a post-Roe world is to support women, sisters say

Shinnecock women, allied with Catholic sisters, farm kelp to restore bay waters

Q & A with Sr. Dorothy Hall, feeding Harlem's hungry as the pandemic continues

Catholic sisters join outcry over Texas shooting, call for stronger gun safety