NCR Today - Sr. Houda Fadoul is a Syrian-Catholic nun who presides over a congregation of women religious near Nebek, Syria. Nebek a city of around 50,000 inhabitants, is 50 miles north-east of Damascus and about the same distance south the ancient Christian center of Homs. There are about 120 Catholic families there, served by one Syrian-Catholic parish and one Melkite parish.

On-site workshop at Naromoru Disabled Children’s Home, run by Elizabethan Sisters, helps build customized prosthetics, braces and walkers for a fraction of the cost of importing materials or finished products.
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The Naromoru Disabled Children’s Home, started 33 years ago by Elizabethan Sisters from Italy, organizes surgery and rehabilitation for 100 children annually now. The sisters’ work has been a catalyst for changing community perceptions of disabilities in Kenya’s interior.
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As part of the 50 years of Sisters of Mercy presence in Peru, those who ministered among the people and were part of the history of the sisters in Peru were invited to celebrate at the beginning mission in Acora in the Alti Plano. I was invited to attend this celebration and see where the Mercy Sisters and other women religious communities and Maryknoll Sisters and Brothers worked since the call of Pope Saint John XXIII 50 years ago.

“You have to accompany them. For each one, the journey is different.”

GSR Today - Since Global Sisters Report is about facilitating connections among women religious around the world – and to the wider world – we’re happy to share the efforts of a community looking toward the future. The Journal News in White Plains, N.Y. reported on how the Dominican Sisters of Hope have revamped, retooled and relaunched their website.

Nothing quite wakes up the world like a snowstorm! The power of snowflakes is in their togetherness. And so it is in the Christian life. We are stronger together. In religious life, this is particularly central. We are sisters because of our shared life. The title we are blessed to assume implies that our primary identity is one of relationship.

Jesus called, 'Cast your nets on the other side!' As disciples perhaps we too are called to recognize 'the other side' may actually bring us life.

See for Yourself - News reports this week announced that the film, “Fifty Shades of Grey,” rocketed to Number 1 as the box office draw for Valentine’s Day weekend 2015. Is anyone surprised at that? I’m not. After all, when the Catholic church specifically singles out this movie as something not to go see, isn’t that all the more reason to go see it?

GSR Today - I learned about last week’s triple homicide in Chapel Hill, N.C., on Twitter. Checking Twitter on my phone is one of the first things I do in the morning, and I didn’t have to scroll long to see post after post both about Deah Bakarat; his wife, Yusor Abu-Salha and her sister, Razan Abu-Salha. There was also a lot of talk about the lack of media attention given to their deaths.