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May 21, 2021

Resilient community farms provide ‘living’ nourishment

Small family farms were once the norm across this country, but are increasingly being replaced by large-scale industrial farms. Yet there are families like the Blacks of Markdale, Ont., Mike and Patty and their four boys John, James, Chris and David, who continue to keep the family farm alive. They continue to be an important source of nourishment in their communities, providing food for hundreds of local families.

Winter is not just weather and neither is spring. Our long, grey season of COVID discontent and loneliness is not quite over, but outside our windows and outside our cities spring is relentless.

Published in Features
January 2, 2019

Indian nuns worked to prevent farmers' suicide after Kerala floods

Sister Regin Mathew, right, helped Vincy Joy, a 42-year-old woman, overcome trauma after floodwaters submerged her house on the outskirts of Mananthavady, India, a town in Kerala state.
COCHIN, India – Ouseph Pappachan, a physically challenged farmer in flood-ravaged Kerala, said he and his wife are alive now because of Sister Regin Mathew.
Published in International
May 23, 2018

Nigerian bishops lead thousands in peaceful protests against killings

Nigerians carry placards during a May 22 protest in Lagos against the killing of innocent citizens, presumably by herdsmen, in some parts of the country. Catholics marched in various cities around the country.
LAGOS, Nigeria – Catholic bishops in Nigeria led thousands of people across the country in peaceful protests against repeated killings by herdsmen in a conflict over fertile land.
Published in International
April 17, 2018

Philippines to deport Australian nun who advocated for farmers

Sister Patricia Fox, superior of the Sisters of Our Lady of Sion in the Philippines, speaks to the media after her April 17 release from the Bureau of Immigration headquarters in Manila. Philippine authorities arrested the 71-year-old Australian nun for allegedly engaging in illegal political activities.
MANILA, Philippines – Philippine authorities have arrested, detained and intend to deport a 71-year-old Australian nun for allegedly engaging in illegal political activities.
Published in International
July 14, 2017

Young farmers in the U.S., Uganda learn to help each other

A delegation from Uganda tours a greenhouse June 6 at Paris High School in St. Paris, Ark. Pictured from left are: Paris agriculture teacher Nicole Beirne; Bruce White, Catholic Relief Services project director; George Ntibarikure, agriculture adviser for CRS in Uganda; Mathias Mutema Mulumba with the National Curriculum Development Center; and Ronald Ddungu, deputy head teacher at the Gayaza Girls High School in Uganda.

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – If a man is taught to farm, he is sustained for life.

Published in International
May 8, 2017

Kansas family among first to aid fellow farmers affected by wildfires

Emma Joyce, a junior at Maur Hill-Mount Academy in Atchison, Kan., and a parishioner of St. Benedict Church in Bendena, Kan., helps repair a fence line March 22 at a ranch near Ashland, Kan., The ranch had sustained damage from a devastating wildfire that swept through that portion of the state in early March.

KANSAS CITY, Kan. – Father Prakash Rao Kola was in Coldwater, Kansas, 30 miles east of Ashland, the afternoon of March 6 when he began to get frantic calls from parishioners.

Published in International
February 23, 2017

Vatican offers support to local farmers in Italian earthquake zone

In an effort to support the economy of Italian regions devastated by several recent earthquakes, the Vatican has purchased food from local farmers and producers to feed the homeless.

VATICAN CITY – In an effort to help support the economy of the central Italian region devastated by several earthquakes in 2016, the Vatican has purchased food from local farmers and producers to feed the homeless.

Published in International