"I truly believe in the power of community initiatives to drive social change," says Sr. María Torres Pérez, or Pepa Torres as people know her. "We have to raise our voices and gritar to denounce injustices."
Sr. Delnise Silva belongs to the Our Lady of Sorrows congregation, which runs a school and an orphanage for children orphaned by HIV/AIDS in two impoverished rural communities in Zimbabwe.
Gender-based violence was the focus of many of this year's sessions at the United Nations' Commission on the Status of Women, showing the extent to which the problem remains persistent, serious and endemic.
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.
God "does not disown his children": Jyothis Bhavan, a home run by the Congregation of the Mother of Carmel in Kochi, Kerala, India, offers a lifeline to one of society's most marginalized groups.
Through all the changes since President Trump took office, volunteers at Kino Border Initiative south of the Arizona-Mexico border have continued to show up for migrants at the nonprofit's dining room and shelter.
The Vatican's central number is public — and the sisters of the Pious Disciples of the Divine Master make sure all who call it get a real person, not the "press 1 for English, 2 for Latin" version of the automation that's become the norm at major institutions and businesses worldwide.
The Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life at Georgetown University organized a panel highlighting the downstream and life-or-death effects of the recent cuts to USAID.
