Doreen Ajiambo

Amid the devastating effects of the Anglophone Crisis in Cameroon, Sr. Janefrancis Kinyuy struggles to balance keeping children safe, providing education, and being the hope needed for society.

 Dozens of sisters from the Association of Sisterhoods of Kenya gathered June 14 in Nairobi for the launch of a media-training project, the Communication Network for Catholic Sisters.

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.

Roughly 100 sisters came together in Lusaka, Zambia, for a gathering organized by the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation's Catholic Sisters Initiative, May 29-31, to collaborate and share best practices.

To celebrate Uganda Martyrs Day, June 3, sisters joined millions of pilgrims across Africa in a trek to the Namugongo Catholic Shrine in Kampala, honoring the dozens of martyrs burned alive in the late 1880s.

Hundreds of African sisters join a mass pilgrimage to the Uganda Martyrs Shrine of Namugongo, ahead of the June 3 Martyrs Day celebrations, honoring the dozens of Christians killed for their faith in the 1880s.

Sr. Amala Ranee Santiago, a member of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Cluny, has been administrator of St. Joseph's School for the Hearing Impaired in Makeni, Sierra Leone, since 2009. 

Sisters from six African countries gathered in Entebbe, Uganda, to learn strategies and income-generating ideas for their ministries, largely in social services.

Catholic leaders and sisters have rescued thousands of children and young girls in Sierra Leone from sexual abuse, offering guidance and counseling, justice and education.

After Sr. Angela Mbalu Bangura became the provincial superior of her congregation, her objective as a leader was to unify all three West African provinces in Sierra Leone, Ghana and Gambia, which are under her authority.

"We have been targeting extremely poor households and asking well-wishers in the church to help us reach out to more people," said Sr. Matilda Mubanga.

With Malawi and other southern African countries still reeling nearly 10 months after Cyclone Freddy, Catholic sisters gathered to learn advocacy skills to lobby on the neglected survivors' behalf.

Nearly 10 years after West Africa's Ebola outbreak, survivors in Sierra Leone continue to live with stigma, isolated from their communities and jobs. Catholic sisters offer education, hope and help. 

Religious leaders, including sisters attending COP28, have vowed to advocate for funds to be adopted and immediately disbursed to vulnerable communities impacted by the effects of climate change and who are unable to adapt to significant loss of lives and livelihoods.

A weeklong in-person training session was held in Nairobi, Kenya, to impart essential leadership skills to promote collaboration for preventing and creating awareness against human trafficking around the globe.

Sisters step up to provide assistance for the thousands who have been displaced after torrential rain, which experts say is related to climate change, flood northern Kenya.  

Catholic sisters foster healing and reconciliation for survivors of Sierra Leone's civil war, many of whom now find themselves neighbors with former rebel soldiers who killed their families during the conflict.

Women religious in Nigeria rejoice after gunmen released three sisters, as well as a priest and their driver, who had been abducted for nine days.

Maasai tribespeople and their supporters, including sisters, face intimidation as the Tanzanian government, in the name of conservation and tourism, has tried to force the Maasai from their northern ancestral land.

A Kenya hospital founded in 1964 and owned by the Catholic Diocese of Lodwar now has 200 beds for inpatient services and specialized doctors to treat life-threatening conditions of Kakuma Refugee Settlement residents.