Sr. Cordelia Anikwem, a nun of the Tertiary Sisters of St. Francis in Gboko, a town in Benue State, Nigeria's Central North, never had an interest in caring for the elderly before becoming a nun.
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The COVID-19 pandemic limited traveling. But through online sessions, many more sisters can now benefit from educational programs than the few who were chosen to travel in the past.
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'It does not matter if I am doing the highest or the humblest work, or if I am resting, or watching a good movie, or ill and bedridden, because I am always a beloved child.' — Sr. Begoña Costillo
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#AvanceGlobal #AscensiónDelSeñor ¿Que llevó a los discípulos de Jesús a ir por el mundo y predicar el Evangelio? Hna. Susana Vanni reflexiona sobre la Buena Noticia en #Columna de este viernes por #GSRenespañol #HermanasCatólicas #10AniversarioGSR #SolemnidadAscensiónDelSeñor

In an interview a year before her death, Sr. Nijole Sadunaite recounted her time in a Soviet prison camp, seeming to dismiss years of persecution as nothing too out of the ordinary.
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#10aniversarioGSR 'Es increíble la resiliencia de todas estas mujeres ( #migrantes ), es admirable. Son #mujeres con una increíble capacidad de sobreponerse a las agresiones': Hna. Rosa María López Palacios #Entrevista #GSRenespañol #HermanasCatólicas globalsistersreport.org/es/noticias/en…

'My Muslim sister gives me a glimpse into a path to peace,' writes Sr. Quincy Howard. 'There is a way to sit with the pain while praying for love and healing to displace hatred and violence.'
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Catholic sisters from different congregations — along with lay people, interreligious and community leaders, priests and bishops — participated in a march in El Paso, Texas, supporting the dignity of immigrants.
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The founder of the Oblate Sisters of Providence, Venerable Mary Lange, was raised in Cuba before coming to America. A 2021 film explores the Oblates' work there after Lange's death.
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While we're thrilled with the growth we've established in the first year of GSR en español, we're more excited thinking about all that can still be done to expand our international readership — all with the power of language.
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'I tell them we're not trying to convert them. We're trying to give them a place where they can be near God,' Sr. Anne Marie Lamoureux told GSR.
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Carole Sargent 'wanted to see sisters' lives in places where everyone might find them.' So she puts Catholic sisters' biographies on Wikipedia and invites sisters and friends of sisters to join the effort.
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People on both sides of the reality-TV discernment journey claim significant benefits from the experience, even though none of the young women from the show actually became a nun.
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Doreen Ajiambo and Global Sisters Report were honored May 3 as first runner up in the Annual Journalism Excellence Awards, presented by the Media Council of Kenya during World Press Freedom Day.
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Global Sisters Report and NCR have been honored by the Religion News Association for reporting in 2023, including for the GSR series 'Hope Amid Turmoil: Sisters in Conflict Areas.'
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At their annual CLAR leadership gathering, this year held in Honduras, Latin American men and women religious reflected on their role as a synodal church amid political instability, persecution and economic inequality.
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The founder of the Oblate Sisters of Providence, Venerable Mary Lange, was raised in Cuba before coming to America. A 2021 film explores the Oblates' work there after Lange's death.
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With their ministries and presence in towns that continue to suffer from Colombia's 50-year-long conflict, nuns contribute to the peace process through accompaniment.
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Sr. Cecilia Olson is a Benedictine Sister of Mount Saint Scholastica in Atchison, Kansas.

This week she shares this piece of wisdom: 'God doesn't expect you to change anyone else. He only asks that you change yourself.'

Follow along for more wisdom from women religious.

'When I became a Daughter of Charity, I started to get my spiritual life in order, and I thought it would also be a good time to get my physical health and nutrition in order.'
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