With its nursing and midwifery program, the Catholic Health Training Institute in Wau, South Sudan, remains a small beacon of hope in a nation struggling to recover from both old and new wars.
Ursuline Srs. Kathleen Neely and Mary Martha Staarman volunteer as Spanish translators for patients at the Family Community Clinic, a free medical clinic on the St. Joseph Parish campus in Louisville, Kentucky.
Despite years of shortages in Cuba, and now more constant blackouts, Catholic sisters and priests are committed to remain with those suffering on the island.
"There is something deeply disturbing about the entrenched resistance of women in the church, as sufficient reasons for full inclusion are lacking in terms of theology, biology and culture," writes Franciscan Sr. Ilia Delio.
At the Youth Community Training Centre run by Baptistine sisters in Livingstone, Zambia, young people acquire valuable skills in food production, electrical engineering, plumbing, carpentry and other vocational fields.
In Benin City, Nigeria, the Medical Missionaries of Mary are building a tech community with the 3M ICT Hub, a skills training center that aims to bridge the digital divide for young Nigerians.
The Mother Theresa Hospice, a refuge for the sick and dying, is on the outskirts of Kabulonga, a suburb adjacent to Kalingalinga, a Lusaka slum. Missionaries of Charity run the facility and care for almost 300 people a day.
In excerpts from his new book, GSR reporter Chris Herlinger profiles two women displaced in the war, and Sr. Lucia Murashko, one of the Basilian sisters who continue to aid refugees in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine.
