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Border Compassion invites volunteers to cross the border every month to provide migrants at the shelter with critical supplies, health care and legal services as they anxiously await transitioning to the next stage of their lives.

Although the country nationalized private schools in 1960, "We have full freedom and dignity," said Apostolic Carmel provincial Sr. Mary Nilanthi. 

Claims against the famous artist have brought attention to the widespread sexual, psychological and spiritual abuse of religious sisters.

En un censo de Vietnam de 2019, la tasa de matrimonio infantil entre la comunidad étnica hmong se situaba en el 51.5 %. Hermanas católicas vietnamitas, las Amantes de la Santa Cruz, desafían esta realidad: educan, protegen y empoderan a las jóvenes para romper el ciclo de pobreza y las animan a esperar la edad legal para casarse. 

Gender-based violence was the focus of many of this year's sessions at the United Nations' Commission on the Status of Women, showing the extent to which the problem remains persistent, serious and endemic.

La Hna. Roxanne Schares, secretaria ejecutiva adjunta de la UISG, comparte su rica experiencia en África con refugiados y su visión —desde su nueva responsabilidad en el Vaticano— para fortalecer la sororidad universal. La religiosa aspira a promover la colaboración entre congregaciones y reforzar el trabajo de la UISG como voz profética y defensora de los marginados. 

God "does not disown his children": Jyothis Bhavan, a home run by the Congregation of the Mother of Carmel in Kochi, Kerala, India, offers a lifeline to one of society's most marginalized groups.

Through all the changes since President Trump took office, volunteers at Kino Border Initiative south of the Arizona-Mexico border have continued to show up for migrants at the nonprofit's dining room and shelter.