At the U.N.'s Commission on the Status of Women, Catholic sisters and advocates pointed to community-based solutions and women's leadership as essential to advancing justice and ending gender-based violence.
Let's face it: It looks like the bad guys are winning. Where is God? Is there no heavenly response on the horizon? Believing that love of God and love of neighbor are one and the same, what am I being asked to do?
A recent interfaith witness in Cleveland, Ohio, is just one of many such gatherings held in U.S. cities as the Trump administration ramps up deportation strategies denying the human and civil rights of immigrants.
Brooke Nichols, a professor of global health who models infectious diseases and used to work on a USAID-funded program herself, is crunching the numbers to quantify the impact of the pullback on U.S. humanitarian aid.
Religious sisters said that Francis consistently demonstrated a profound concern for the poor in Africa, reflecting his broader commitment to the marginalized worldwide.
A Jerusalem Voice for Justice is an ecumenical witness for equality and peace in Palestine/Israel. Christine Schenk interviews its spokesperson, Jesuit Fr. David Neuhaus.
Dominican Sr. Carol Gilbert joined Catholics and members of various faiths for a Holy Week vigil April 14 in the park in front of the White House, to support the family of deported Maryland resident Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
"Women and children are suffering the most from the war," says a nun based in Goma, Congo. "They are subjected to rape, and their dignity is being eroded, with little they can do because the perpetrators are armed."
Sr. Susan Francois has spent the past four years filing shareholder resolutions against Citigroup, urging the company to rethink its financial ties to fossil fuel projects that impact Indigenous communities.
