Chris Herlinger

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.

Artists Athena LaTocha, Mary Mattingly and Tyler Rai come from different religious and cultural backgrounds and bring differing approaches to the exhibit "To See This Place: Awakening to Our Common Home."

In the abrupt decision to cut off USAID to hurting countries and vital programs, the United States chose the market over morality as a primary value.

With President Donald Trump overseeing massive sudden cuts to the United States Agency for International Development, sisters and organizers express grave concern for the global health ramifications.

"We don't go in and build houses. We don't go in and dig ditches. We go in and talk to the Haitian people about what their needs are," said Adrian Dominican Sr. Rosemary Finnegan in a recent interview.

Haiti's problems are seemingly almost never-ending. Advocates — like congregational representatives at the U.N. — say the beleaguered country needs more attention and more support from the global community.

The Sisters of St. John the Evangelist combat human trafficking in Haiti through Santa Teresita del Niño Jesús, a shelter for potentially trafficked children and unaccompanied minors trying to cross the border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic.

Sisters all over the world share how Advent offers hope and needed silence after a year rife with uncertainty that follows war, violence and division.

Fearing President-elect Donald Trump's promise of mass deportations, sisters and Catholic groups organize support for undocumented immigrants living in uncertainty.

A new translation of "The Iliad" pairs well with Ukranian war poetry and a documentary on its suffering people.

US congregations of women religious released statements following President-elect Donald Trump's victory, calling for hope and sharing their determination to serve the vulnerable.

In the immediate aftermath of former President Donald Trump winning a second term, sisters consider the global and local implications for immigrants, the environment, and the common good.

An outpouring of tributes followed the death of Peruvian theologian Fr. Gustavo Gutiérrez, regarded as the father of Latin American liberation theology.

The Conrad N. Hilton Foundation awarded its Hilton Humanitarian Prize for the first time to a South American Indigenous organization, Amazon Frontlines.

In excerpts from Solidarity and Mercy, a new book compiling and adding to his reporting for GSR and NCR, Chris Herlinger profiles Fr. Aleksandr Bohomoz, a Catholic cleric who left Russia-occupied Ukraine in late 2022.

Amazon Frontlines is "the first organization of Indigenous and Western human rights and climate activists to receive the Prize," the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation said.

Janet Hennessey Dilenschneider's exhibit "Come to the Light" offers art lovers a chance to respond, reflect and recharge — all derived from the power and embrace of light in a collection of 21 oil paintings.

Some 1 million pilgrims a year flock to Medjugorje, a Marian shrine located in a village 16 miles southwest from the city of Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina. 

The Oscar-winning film "The Zone of Interest," in its focus on Rudolf and Hedwig Höss, asks a disturbing and damning question: What was it like to live at Auschwitz if you were part of the camp's machinery of death?

"With God's help, we survive," says one Ukrainian villager. That source of hope is made tangible by the presence of St. Basil sisters, who continue to visit Preobrazhenka and other villages at least once a month.