February 25, 2015
From A Nun's Life podcasts - As Missionaries of Joy, what are some ways that people in circus ministry extend the love of God to others?
February 25, 2015
Three Stats and a Map - If you’re like Global Sister Report’s U.S. sister liaison, Franciscan Sr. Jan Cebula, on Monday night, you were watching Independent Lens’ documentary about race on PBS. It’s a timely piece – it seems that we’re talking about race now more than we have in decades.
by Sharon Abercrombie
February 24, 2015
NCR Eco Catholic blog - Catholic sisters extend their care for Earth into a very specific lifestyle choice: Having a vegetarian or vegan diet is gaining popularity. “[Food] tells a lot about your values. It’s a spiritual act because it connects you back to your soul.”
February 24, 2015
GSR Today - It’s a big thing to understand that you – just as you are – are beautifully and wonderfully created in the image of God. It makes me cherish the work of people like the Kenyan Elizabethan sisters profiled in Melanie Lidman’s latest piece for Global Sisters Report.
by Helen Garvey
Contributor
February 24, 2015
One more Lent, one more chance to return to God with all our hearts. How does that happen?
February 23, 2015
GSR Today - The International Union of Superiors General (UISG), the world’s most representative women religious leadership organization, is moving into a new phase of drawing up a comprehensive strategic plan aimed at revitalizing the group and giving it direction in the coming years.
February 23, 2015
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.
February 23, 2015
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.
Related - ‘Show them that they have special abilities’
February 23, 2015
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.
Related - In Kenya, 'shop locally' extends to prosthetics
by Joan Brown
February 23, 2015
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.