Chris Herlinger

Chris Herlinger is New York and international correspondent to Global Sisters Report and also writes on humanitarian, international and cultural issues for NCR. He covers the work of Catholic sisters at the United Nations, and in the last decade has reported from Ukraine, Poland, Bosnia, Croatia, South Sudan, Haiti, Lebanon, Italy, Ghana, Uganda and El Salvador, among other locales. Chris has won numerous awards from the Associated Church Press, the Religion Communicators Council and the Religion News Association. The Catholic Media Association named Chris one of its 2024 Writers of the Year. He is the author of five books on humanitarian themes, most recently Solidarity and Mercy: The Power of Christian Humanitarian Efforts in Ukraine, published by Morehouse.

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Mar 19, 2019

Dartmouth physicist, known for doubting skeptics, wins 2019 Templeton Prize

A Dartmouth College professor who says he is a religious agnostic but whose work has focused on the links between science and the mysteries of creation is the winner of the 2019 Templeton Prize.

James Cone at a theology conference in Detroit in August 1980 (NCR photo/Stephanie Russell)

Dec 05, 2018

James Cone's memoir recounts journey as pioneer in black theology

Book review: Those of us lucky to have had Cone as a professor will hear his impassioned voice throughout his often-moving memoir, Said I Wasn't Gonna Tell Nobody.

Oct 10, 2018

Catholics urge action as UN report forecasts climate crisis in coming decades

Catholics who work on the climate change issue say the world has "a moral and ethical imperative to act," following the release of a major report that foresees a global climate crisis.

Jun 27, 2018

King of Jordan wins Templeton Prize for fostering Muslim cooperation

King Abdullah II of Jordan has won the 2018 Templeton Prize for promoting dialogue and cooperation between Muslims of differing traditions.

Apr 19, 2018

Environmental vulnerabilities are linked to every other problem in Haiti

Cap-Haïtien, Haiti — "We are all seeing how natural disasters are increasing in intensity as well as the devastating effects on people in their paths. Communities in Haiti, especially farmers, are trying their best to adjust accordingly, but more is needed."

Aug 21, 2017

South Sudan church balances prophetic role, practical challenges

Bishop Santo Loku Pio Doggale is not a man to mince words and he didn't earlier this year when he discussed South Sudan’s descent into a worsening, seemingly never-ending civil war.