Monday Starter

Monday Starter is a biweekly feature from Global Sisters Report staff writers that rounds up news from or about women religious.

Auxiliary Bishop Ludger Schepers, left, of the Diocese of Essen, Germany, poses for a photo with Sr. Lorena Jenal, to his right, Rakieta Poyga, of Burkina Faso, and Gregor von Fürstenberg, vice president of Missio Aachen, Oct. 13, 2024 during an awards ceremony in Germany. Jenal received a lifetime achievement award from Missio Aachen for her ministry among victims of "sorcery accusation related violence" in Papua New Guinea. (Courtesy of Missio Aachen)

Monday Starter: Franciscan sister receives award for battling sorcery-related violence

By Rhina Guidos, Stephan Uttom Rozario
Nuns from the Catholic Health Association of India undertake a blind walk in Bengaluru, India, to spread awareness on eye donation and eye care. (Courtesy of Catholic Health Association of India)

Monday Starter: Sisters join blind walk to promote eyesight protection

By Thomas Scaria, Dan Stockman
Advocates from sister congregations and peace groups concerned about arms trafficking into Haiti gather outside U.S. Senate office buildings Sept. 27.

Monday Starter: Sisters seek federal action to curb US arms trafficking into Haiti

By Dan Stockman, Chris Herlinger
A group of children cool off in a plastic pool donated by California nonprofit Border Compassion to the Cobina Posada del Migrante shelter in Mexicali, Mexico, where temperatures reached 120 degrees July 8. The nonprofit, founded by Sr. Suzanne Jabro, a member of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet, organized a hot weather fund this summer to purchase plastic pools, popsicles, fruit and transportation to cooler venues for those at the shelter, which has no air conditioning.

Monday Starter: Sisters help children at the border find respite from the heat

By Rhina Guidos

Monday Starter: New film dramatizes life of founder of Apostles congregation

By Chris Herlinger, Dan Stockman
In this image taken from body camera video released by Illinois State Police on July 22, former Sangamon County Sheriff's Deputy Sean Grayson, left, points his gun at Sonya Massey, who called 911 for help, before shooting and killing her inside her home in Springfield, Ill., July 6. (Illinois State Police via AP)

Monday Starter: Sisters condemn fatal Illinois police shooting

By Chris Herlinger
Theologian Sr. Mary Catherine Hilkert, a member of the Dominican Sisters of Peace and professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame, received the Catholic Theological Society of America's John Courtney Murray Award June 15.

Monday Starter: Sr. Hilkert honored with John Courtney Murray award

By Dan Stockman
Women stand with hands on a woman's shoulders.

Monday Starter: WATER hosting 'Saving Grace of Fun' liturgy

By Dan Stockman
Asylum-seeking migrants stand in line to be transported at a staging area near the border wall in Jacumba Hot Springs, California, June 5, after U.S. President Joe Biden announced a sweeping border security enforcement effort. (OSV News/Reuters/Go Nakamura)

Monday Starter: Immigration group condemns new asylum rules

By Chris Herlinger
CBS News' Bill Whitaker interviews Ne'Kiya Jackson and Calcea Johnson on 60 Minutes (NCR screenshot/CBS News)

Monday Starter: Barkley donating $1 million to New Orleans Catholic academy

By Chris Herlinger, Dan Stockman
The exterior of St. Benedict's Abbey is pictured in Atchison Kansas.

Monday Starter: Benedictine sisters denounce remarks by NFL's Butker

By Rhina Guidos, Dan Stockman
Palestinian men sit amid the rubble of destroyed houses and buildings at the area around Al Shifa Hospital amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Gaza City April 1.

Monday Starter: Sisters join other Catholics in letter to stop US weapons to Israel

By Rhina Guidos
The Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati partnered with other religious congregations in their region to place an anti-gun violence billboard along Interstate 75.

Monday Starter: Sisters in Cincinnati sponsor billboard against gun violence

By Dan Stockman
A voter carries a ballot to a polling place in Phoenix as Arizona's Democratic and Republican parties held primary elections on March 19.

Monday Starter: Network series aims to inform and engage voters

By Dan Stockman
A screenshot of the Women, Peace and Security (or WPS) Conflict Tracker

Monday Starter: Georgetown institute announces conflict 'tracker' initiative

By Chris Herlinger
Superiors of women's religious orders meet for the plenary assembly of the International Union of Superior Generals in Rome May 3, 2022. More than 500 superiors were in attendance, with more than 100 participating online. (CNS/Paul Haring)

Monday Starter: UISG announces date for 2025 plenary assembly

By Rhina Guidos
A makeshift memorial is seen in Lewiston, Maine, on Oct. 28, 2023, near Schemengees Bar & Grille Restaurant, one of the locations of Oct. 25 mass shootings.

Monday Starter: As Lenten season begins, women religious focus on US gun violence, Gaza

By Rhina Guidos, Aimable Twahirwa
Voters arrive to cast ballots at the Webster School in Manchester, New Hampshire, shortly after polls opened in the New Hampshire presidential primary election Jan. 23. (OSV News/Reuters/Mike Segar)

Monday Starter: LCWR initiative seeks to 'bring grace' into election year

By Chris Herlinger
Israeli military vehicles move out of the Gaza Strip, as seen from southern Israel Jan. 15, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas.

Monday Starter: Loretto sisters call for peace in Middle East

By Dan Stockman
Delegates at a 1974 Network legislative seminar (Courtesy of Network Lobby for Catholic Social Justice)

Monday Starter: New book chronicles the history of Network

By Chris Herlinger