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Ahead of the 57th Super Bowl, Catholics look to tackle human trafficking

Experts differ over the Super Bowl's impact on human trafficking, but overall data shows that the problem has risen sharply across the globe. 

Sister Irene Regina and Sister Margaret Ann

Basketball sisters head out on different paths, wind up on same journey 40 years later

Divine intervention may be the only explanation for how two college teammates graduated, ventured off on different career paths miles apart and then, 40 years later, ended up on the same journey in Miami, both wearing habits.

Three Cameroonian children sit at a desk

For children who witnessed atrocities in Cameroon, these sisters' school is home

The Missionary Sisters of the Resurrection own the Catholic Bilingual School of Our Lady of the Resurrection and started running a preschool in 2011. After starting with just 17 children, the school now enrolls 300 and counting.

Sister Andre, oldest known person in the world, dies at age 118.

Sister André, a Daughter of Charity and oldest known person in world, dies in France at age 118

Sister André, a Daughter of Charity and the world's oldest known person, died at age 118, a spokesman of the nursing home where she died told AFP agency on Jan. 17.

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'His memory still resonates with us': Franciscan sister recalls MLK's deathbed

"We were not allowed to go into the ER when [the doctors] were working on him, but after Dr. King was pronounced dead, we were admitted to it, and the authorities gave us the time we needed to pray with him."

Polish Sr. Renata Jurczak gestures to a van full of supplies in the snow

'If we die, we will die together': Women religious are pillars of peace in war-torn Ukraine

While war in Ukraine continues with no end in sight, one group in particular is contributing to a more peaceful world amid the turmoil of Russian invasion — the Catholic religious sisters of Ukraine.

Biden, wearing a suit and aviators, shakes a Border Patrol agents hand by the border fence

Migrant pleas, border realities confront President Biden in El Paso

"Lord, I ask that you take me out of here soon … I want to be with my mom and sister soon. Amen."

Migrants from Central America sit at tables, eating

'Help us': Asylum-seekers cling to hope as Title 42 limbo continues

Just days before the policy was set to expire, the U.S. Supreme Court issued Dec. 27 a 5-4 ruling that Title 42 would remain in place while legal challenges to the policy play out.