Onize Ohikere graduated in 2015 from Minnesota State University, Moorhead with degrees in mass communications and documentary journalism. In 2012, Onize moved from Nigeria to Minnesota to complete her undergraduate degree. During that time, she interned with Prairie Public in Fargo, North Dakota, and World magazine in North Carolina. When she is not writing stories that delve into the life experiences and survival of others, she enjoys broadening her theological knowledge with the works of writers like St. Francis de Sales and Fulton Sheen.
by GSR Staff
December 14, 2015
“Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord. May it be done to me according to your word.”
December 14, 2015
GSR Today - The 10 sisters who have been training in Rome are off to Sicily today to minister to the spiritual needs and help build bridges between refugees and the Sicilian population.
December 14, 2015
This story appears in the COP21 Paris feature series. View the full series.
December 12, 2015
COP21 Paris - World leaders here Saturday evening, Dec. 12, reached the first-ever globally binding deal to address climate change, concluding two weeks of the "most complicated and difficult," and, at times sleepless, negotiations.
This story appears in the COP21 Paris feature series. View the full series.
December 11, 2015
COP21 Paris - A 20-minute train ride and 10-minute walk from central Paris north to the French capital’s 19th arrondissement, a different conference of the parties has occurred each night during the second week of COP21, the United Nations climate change conference.
December 11, 2015
Sr. Consuelo Morales, a member of the Congregation of Our Lady: Canonesses of St. Augustine, was awarded Mexico's top human rights award Dec. 10 for her work with the families of missing persons.
by GSR Staff
December 11, 2015
"Lo, the days are coming! The rough ways will be smoothed! Death will be destroyed forever and all tears will be wiped away!"
David Agren covers Mexico as a freelance correspondent for Catholic News Service. His reporting also regularly appears in the Guardian, USA Today and the Washington Post. A native of Canada, he has lived in Mexico City for the past 11 years.
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David Agren cubre México como corresponsal independiente para Catholic News Service. Sus reportajes también aparecen regularmente en The Guardian, USA Today y The Washington Post. Originario de Canadá, ha vivido en la Ciudad de México durante los últimos 11 años.
by Colleen Gibson
Columnist
December 11, 2015
As the movie "Spotlight" comes to a close, something other than the credits flash up on the screen: a long list of dioceses around the country and the world that have been consumed by clergy sexual abuse scandals and cover-ups. The list goes on for pages and, sitting in a theater Thanksgiving weekend, on the eve of the beginning of Advent, a silence hung over the crowd.