Solidarity is a main theme of Catholic social teaching, and sisters model solidarity with people oppressed, people living in poverty, in violence, and those who suffer injustice.
With their ministries and presence in towns that continue to suffer from Colombia's 50-year-long conflict, nuns contribute to the peace process through accompaniment.
The church has promoted a wide range of human rights since the end of the 19th century. Help students learn about human rights and the church's support of such rights.
The daily routine of my life at the Salvatorian Sisters' School in Nazareth, Israel, used to be lively, with kids arriving at school with broad smiles. But the horrifying war now casts shadows of fear and insecurity.
Our recent popes have encouraged a just peace in the Middle East, and the work of peacemakers is still needed to make this hope a reality. Peacemaking is a skill that we are called to learn and practice.
To bring healing to South Sudan, Sacred Heart Sr. Mary Atimango and other sisters have gone out to provide training in nonviolence to different groups of people, including gang members.
Learning nonviolence takes time. Helping students reflect on how much violence permeates our culture is a first step in guiding them to become more aware of what they take in and how it might affect them.
Catholic sisters foster healing and reconciliation for survivors of Sierra Leone's civil war, many of whom now find themselves neighbors with former rebel soldiers who killed their families during the conflict.
Catholic sisters have done remarkable work in the challenging process of forgiveness and reconciliation in Africa; they can be models for our students as they learn more about the process of forgiveness.
During the war in Ukraine, it is important to stay alive, not to succumb to the temptation of an easy and false peace, writes Sr. Teodozija Myroslava Mostepaniuk.