On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization said COVID-19 could be characterized as a pandemic. One year later, millions of lives have been lost to the virus, and people worldwide are taking stock of the last year and what the future holds.
The Leadership Conference of Women Religious, which represents about 80 percent of U.S. sisters, issued a statement Aug.
The Ebola outbreak that began in March 2014 was the deadliest in recorded history. On August 8, the World Health Organization declared the epidemic a global emergency and an “extraordinary event.”
A four-part series on religious communities that have been created since 1965, the year the Second Vatican Council ended.
Tom Fox will be reporting from Korea during the 2014 papal visit, filing news stories to NCRonline.org and sisters' stories about their ministry in Asia to Global Sisters Report.
In May 2015, “The Nun in the World: Catholic Sisters and Vatican II” brought together women religious, historians and scholars for a three-day international symposium at the University of Notre Dame’s London Global Gateway campus.
A 7.8-magnitude earthquake ravaged Nepal a little before noon on April 25, 2015. Some 100 large and small aftershocks over the past five days, along with rain, have added to people’s woes and hindered rescue and relief work.
Global Sisters Report focuses on the coming together of experienced Catholic sisters and young people identifying as "nones" — shorthand for the box they check next to religion.
Coverage of the October 2015 synod on the family.
Global Sisters Report is focusing on the efforts of sisters to end human trafficking as Talitha Kum, the international anti-trafficking network of religious, marks its 10th anniversary and launches its
The Life is a monthly feature about the unique, challenging and very specific lives of women religious around the world. The format is simple: GSR poses a question and publishes responses from several sisters who are part of a panel of 20.
La Vida es un artículo mensual sobre la vida singular, desafiante y muy específica de las religiosas alrededor del mundo. El formato es sencillo: GSR plantea una pregunta y publica las respuestas de varias hermanas que forman parte de un panel de 20.
Three years after Pope Francis announced he would create a commission to study the history of women deacons in the Catholic Church, approximately 850 leaders of the world's congregations of Catholic women religious gathered for their triennial weeklong meeting of the International Union of Superi
Web of Life is a new eco-spiritual retreat and study program based at the Maryknoll Sisters' Pastoral Center in Santa Fe, Darién, Panama.
This series, written by a member of the Pontifical Commission for the Study of the Diaconate of Women, addresses questions related to women religious and the ordained diaconate.
Catholic women made sure their voices were heard among the millions who gathered at marches and rallies in cities and towns across the United States and around the world on January 21 to stand up for women's rights and send a signal to President Donald Trump about a wide range of issues.
Global Sisters Report asked U.S. congregations how they are inviting young women to consider religious life following the World Day for Consecrated Life.
Coverage of the 2016 International Union of Superiors General (UISG) plenary in which the organization asked Pope Francis to create a commission to study the possibility of women serving as deacons in the Catholic Church.
Stories of sisters fighting the threat of nuclear war and remembering their own experiences at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
