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As Sudan's war escalates, Catholic sisters fear for colleagues and ministries
5+ hour, 53+ min ago (887+ words) A Sudanese refugee girl from al-Fashir, Sudan, rests next to a burnt tree in the middle of the Tine transit camp in eastern Chad, Nov. 23, 2025, amid the conflict in Sudan between the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces and the Sudanese army....
LCWR leaders meet with Pope Leo, discuss 'painful' treatment of people in the US
1+ day, 8+ hour ago (534+ words) The heads of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious made their annual trip to Rome last week, meeting with dicastery officials at the Vatican and having a private audience with Pope Leo XIV. LCWR represents about two-thirds of the nearly 35,000 sisters…...
Q&A with Sr. Nwanneka Uduh, overseeing leprosy care at Nigeria hospital
1+ day, 16+ hour ago (423+ words) Sr. Nwanneka Udu, a member of the Congregation of the Medical Missionaries of Mary, poses in her office at the Mile Four Hospital in Abakaliki, Nigeria. She and other sisters and medical staff at the facility care for people with…...
Compassion calls us to sacred kinship with immigrants
2+ day, 16+ hour ago (583+ words) Sisters of Charity of the'Incarnate Word Srs. Jean Durel, Josetta Eveler, Michele O'Brien, Margaret Snyder and Martha Ann Kirk participated in a vigil and procession to South Texas Family Residential Center on Jan. 28, 2026, in Dilley, Texas. (Courtesy of Martha Ann…...
Seton Shrine exhibit explores role of nuns in shaping US history
5+ day, 16+ hour ago (661+ words) Visitors view"Do the Good: The Sisters Who Shaped America"at the National Shrine of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton on opening day, March 19. (Courtesy of the National Shrine of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton) A new museum exhibit at the National…...
Sisters mark St. Oscar Romero feast with protest of ICE enforcement tactics
6+ day, 7+ hour ago (838+ words) Agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, detain a man as they conduct an immigration enforcement action in St. Paul, Minn., Jan 27, 2026. (OSV News/Reuters/Seth Herald) Sisters joined Catholics and others outside the headquarters of U.S. Immigration and Customs…...
At UN women's summit, nuns warn gender-based violence persists worldwide
6+ day, 16+ hour ago (986+ words) Halfway through the two weeks of meetings of the United Nations' Commission on the Status of Women,Sr. Isabelle Izika Tsamba sounded frustrated. "When will gender-based violence end?" she said to a visitor in the small office she shares with…...
Missionary Benedictine Sisters in Kenya minister in herbal medicine
1+ week, 5+ day ago (877+ words) Sr. Mary Grace, a postulant of the Missionary Benedictine Sisters, and staff make cayenne pepper capsules at the Medicine at Your Door Step production unit" in Karen, Nairobi, Kenya. (Lourine Oluoch) "There is a lot of herbal medicine that we…...
Q&A with Kenyan Sr. Esther Njoka, on missionary life in Cuba
1+ week, 1+ day ago (547+ words) Sr. Esther Njoka, a member of the Missionary Congregation of the Evangelizing Sisters of Mary in Kenya, always dreamed of going on a mission. It didn't matter where, she said, but she was surprised when an official from her order…...
Monday Starter: UN commission meetings focus on challenges faced by women
1+ week, 2+ day ago (1121+ words) On the second day of the United Nations' Commission on the Status of Women, held at U.N. headquarters in New York, United Nations Secretary-General Ant'nio Guterres met with members of nongovernmental groups. (U.N./Eskinder Debebe) Sisters and congregational lay representatives praised the…...