Sisters in Accra, Ghana, run an empowerment program for young girls working as porters in one busy city market. Sr. Angelina Gerharz, 72, a Holy Spirit Sister who is originally from Germany but has been in Ghana for 48 years, founded the Porter Girls Project in 2010.
Kerry DiNardo is a Notre Dame Mission Volunteer AmeriCorps member in her second year of service at Cristo Rey Boston High School, where she works in the Student Life Office. There, she plans retreats and events, directs the extracurricular program, and coaches basketball and softball. Originally from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Kerry graduated from St. Joseph's University with a degree in business intelligence in May 2014.
by GSR Staff
"No human being is worthless or disposable, like they might make us feel. And I know that if we unite, we will accomplish something."
Sr. Kathryn James Hermes is a Daughter of St. Paul, an author, and is blessed to be able to spend all her life living Jesus and giving him to the world. Two of her titles, Surviving Depression: A Catholic Approach and Reclaim Regret: How God Heals Life's Disappointments, spring from her own experience of healing and love of spirituality.
by Margaret Galiardi
Contributor
Among the better-known Native American tales is a conversation between a grandfather and his grandson. The elder explains to the younger that two wolves live inside of each of us. One is ferocious, harmful and vengeful. The other is gentle, loving and steadfast. They are, the grandfather explains, perpetually at war with one another.
GSR Today: To this day, the 1980 murders of four U.S. churchwomen in El Salvador looms large in the consciousness of the religious community. Also, did you know that the things refugees bring across the U.S.-Mexico border are thrown away by the authorities?
"Ave Maria," a 14-minute comedy about an unexpected encounter between a group of nuns living in the Palestinian West Bank and a family of Jewish settlers, is one of five shorts nominated in the category of best live action short film.
Life skills combined with a vocational education help young women in Tanzania gain confidence and skills to be able to say "no" to early marriage based on financial need. Sisters and others are helping them to start their own businesses and make their own choices.
Religious and clergy in the Philippines say their experiences in the People Power Revolution 30 years ago have had a lasting impact on their faith and vocations. Sr. Porferia "Pingping" Ocariza, a member of the Daughters of St. Paul said that what she did Feb. 23, 1986, was worth it.
Simone Orendain has returned to work as a freelance multimedia journalist after eight years of caregiving. She reports from the Chicago/Midwest area and Asia, and she regularly covers the Catholic Church in the United States and Asia. She was a foreign correspondent based in Manila for six years before returning to the United States in 2016. In the United States, Simone was an education reporter and regularly covered business and religion.
