The Ozanam House, run by the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul, has sheltered and reintegrated over 600 struggling young women and girls in Nigeria since its establishment in 1995.
"It's to show solidarity that we're very much their partners. We just feel like they've gone through so much," said Benedictine Sr. Mary Elizabeth Schweiger.
Missionary Sisters of Santo Domingo in the municipality of Kimbanseke in Kinshasa, the Congolese capital, fell victim to the attack on March 18. The attackers smashed the wall of the congregation's residence to gain entry.
The communities at Assumption Abbey, the Monastery of St. Joseph, home to the Benedictines of Mary, Queen of the Apostles, and Nazareth Hermitage all left their properties in the early afternoon of March 19 as wildfires inched dangerously close.
At Presentation Arts Center in St. Louis, Missouri, Daughters of Charity offer a variety of creative programs for locals who otherwise wouldn't have access to the arts.
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.
