June 30, 2016

  • School children in Agartala, India, pray during a June 29 candlelight vigil to show solidarity with the victims of the suicide attack at Istanbul's Ataturk Airport. The June 28 bombings killed dozens and wounded more than 200 as Turkish officials blamed the carnage at the international terminal on three suspected Islamic State group militants. (CNS photo / Jayanta Dey, Reuters)

"Because the serious issues in our 21st-century world are not contained by national boundaries, our responses to these issues cannot stop at our borders."

- Sr. Eileen Reilly, director of the School Sisters of Notre Dame's U.N. office, as quoted in a recent interview published on Global Sisters Report