To make the transition to a sustainable future, humanity must pay attention to cities and the attendant challenges of affordable housing, energy-saving and transportation, say sisters who attended a recent three-day United Nations conference on sustainable urban areas.
by Saji Thomas
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Nearly 10,000 people living in eight villages in northwestern India have found new meaning in their lives after the intervention of the Missionary Sisters, Servants of the Holy Spirit in 2012. Through water projects, micro-loans, farming diversity and other means, the nuns not only checked migration to cities but also fought several social evils that subjugated women, such as child marriage.
by Espérance Kanyere
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In 2005, I was on mission to mentor teachers at a high school in in Kalima, in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The very first time I met with the sixth level students, I cried for some of them, because they were unable to read or write.
by Linda Romey
How much of the talk about the future of religious life is really about the future of our religious traditions, not the life itself? Vowed members will continue to be as important to the lifeblood of the traditions as non-vowed members are coming to be.
Espérance (Hope) Kanyere is a Congolese sister, a member of the Congregation of the Ursuline Sisters of Tildonk in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in Goma, the North-Kivu province. After working in the Ursuline school's accounting department for ten years, she did graduate work in French African languages. Currently she works at Saint Ursule High School, teaching French in the morning, and in the afternoon teaching and mentoring neighborhood girls who have not had the chance to finish high school.
Adrian Dominican Sr. Elise García tells GSR that she is used to finding herself between two worlds. At 69, she has only been in religious life for 14 years, so she identifies with both sisters her own age, and millennial sisters still relatively new to religious life. "I'm very much a bridge," the LCWR president-elect says.
by Nancy Linenkugel
Contributor
"He who calls you is faithful." The trusty clock radio's alarm goes off and a new day gets underway that is ready to receive your best efforts, your best thinking and your best self.
Summer affords precious time for ethnic students in Vietnam's Central Highlands to prepare for the coming academic year with the help of several communities of women religious. The students take courses in such subjects as math, English, Vietnamese and music.
by Maxine Kollasch
Contributor
From A Nun's Life podcasts - In this Random Nun Clip, sisters field questions from a listener who is wrestling with conflicting feelings about religious life; they offer him a way forward, and also discuss whether God communicates to us in dreams.
by Tracey Horan
Contributor
Horizons - For people who live within 100 miles of the U.S./Mexico border, the surveillance, having your photo taken every time you cross, seeing Border Patrol vehicles everywhere, passing through checkpoints and having to announce your citizenship — this is part of daily life.
