Philippine-based Maryknoll nuns joined their counterparts in other parts of the world in celebrating their order's centenary this year and focusing on interfaith work.
Church officials have welcomed the conviction of a Brazilian rancher in plotting the murder of Dorothy Stang, a US-born Catholic nun and land rights' activist in Brazil.
Women of faith have a special calling to restore religion’s principles of nonviolence in a conflicted world, Sister Joan Chittister has told more than 2,000 women at a gathering in the USA.
Roman Catholic nuns in Poland who mounted an occupation of their convent in a protest against the appointment of a new mother superior are refusing to leave the building, despite being expelled from their order by the Vatican - writes Jonathan Luxmoore for Ecumenical News International.