Global Sisters Report

Not working together has been biggest failure of pandemic

by Dan Stockman, GSR | April 24, 2021 | News | 0 Comments

The coronavirus pandemic has exposed how unprepared the world is — even wealthy, technologically advanced nations — to work together to stop an urgent crisis.

Affordable Housing and Social Protection for all to Address Homelessness

by | February 21, 2019 | News, Vincentian Family, Vincentian Family at the U.N. | 0 Comments

The UN CSocD priority theme for their meeting in 2020, “Affordable Housing and Social Protection for all to address Homelessness” and the Vincentian Family.

At UN Development Meetings, Sisters Present Pathways to Eradicate Poverty

by Elizabeth Astridge | March 23, 2018 | News | 0 Comments

Sabitri Dakhal and her husband, Nilaram Dakhal, were struggling to make ends meet, as do many residents of the west Nepal region of Surkhet. Finding it harder to eke out a living in their mountainside village, the couple migrated to a more populated valley in the area...

Sisters Killed ‘Would do Anything for their Patients’

by Dan Stockman | September 3, 2016 | News | 0 Comments

Four weeks ago, Sr. Ruth Hoerig got a rare chance to spend some time with her good friend Sr. Margaret Held, who was back in Milwaukee for a visit. Over lunch, the two School Sisters of St. Francis talked, laughed and reminisced. And Hoerig tried to talk Held into...