Sr. Justicia Nekesa said girls' education is not a priority for most parents, and young brides are weighed down by poverty as they solely depend on their polygamous husbands for support.
A Franciscan Sister of the Holy Cross, Hanna is the director of one of the largest psychiatric hospitals in the Middle East, Hôpital Psychiatrique de la Croix.
Ahanihu's book explores the sustainability of religious congregations "that do not maintain a presence in the Global South" and what it means for the future of those communities in the U.S.
With hundreds of thousands of followers across TikTok and Instagram, Sr. Josefina Cattaneo from Argentina has wielded social media as a tool for evangelizing.
Scalabrinian Sr. Carla Luisa Frey Bamberg is on the front lines of Africa's trafficking crisis, as leader of the Angolan church's Episcopal Commission for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People.
"My focus is on contemporary themes that touch lives," says Sr. Seby Thomas, a member of the Missionary Sisters of Mary Immaculate. "I keep observing films, news and issues that come up in society."
"I am surprised to see so little presence of Black people in religious communities. This should be a call to reflection, especially for congregations," the Afro-Colombian sister said.
"Addressing gender-based violence isn't a distraction from economic issues — it's actually one of the root ways to solve them," says Notre Dame de Namur Sr. Eucharia Madueke of the Africa Faith and Justice Network.
