Nuns Archives

Event urges participants to discover, respond to God-given gifts

Jul 6, 2020

The Given Institute’s inaugural online event “Discover the Gift” featured five speakers who expanded on the event’s three-part theme centered on young adult Catholic women, calling them to receive the gift that they are, realize the gifts they’ve been given and respond with the gifts only they can give.

By Sydney Clark, CNS

Women taken from African mothers by Belgium now want redress

Jul 1, 2020

During colonial times thousands of biracial children known as “métis” were taken away and raised in Belgian institutions as the colonial power promoted a strict separation of white and Black people and systematically tried to prevent interracial unions.

By Samuel Petrequin

During pandemic, Nairobi nuns expand their reach

Jun 29, 2020

Normally, the Missionary Sisters of the Precious Blood feed about 200 children in Nairobi’s informal settlements of Kawangware and Riruta. But with the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown, the sisters are expanding their reach.

By Francis Njuguna

Foundations’ plan: $1,000 each for 1,000 nuns to allay COVID-19 impacts

Jun 25, 2020

After the success of a pair of pilot programs this spring, a nationwide “Sisters on the Frontlines” fundraising effort aims to give 1,000 sisters $1,000 each to help blunt the negative impacts of the coronavirus on some of the United States’ most vulnerable people.

By Mark Pattison

Caring for Kenyan elderly during pandemic requires extraordinary steps

Jun 21, 2020

Phylis Nyambura sits on a plastic chair, pensive and alone in the shade of a tree at Cheshire Home for the Elderly in the Kariobangi slum northeast of Nairobi. She laments how her social life has changed as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak.

By Doreen Ajiambo

Women religious, inspired by current protests, also see long road ahead

Jun 16, 2020

Across the country, women religious have joined in peaceful protests against racial inequality, while others, home for health reasons amid the pandemic, are very much in spirit with the marchers.

By Carol Zimmermann