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November 11, 2009

November 12 Event: The Religious Lives of Migrant Minorities

To improve understandings of religion in the lives of international migrants, this SSRC Project investigates the roles of Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism for immigrants settled in Malaysia, South Africa, and Great Britain. The conference offers comparitive research findings.

November 9, 2009

Katherine Marshall Blogs: "And the Opus Goes to . . . "

Aicha Ech Channa, a gutsy Moroccan woman, has worked for five decades with young unmarried mothers, who stand at the very bottom of the social heap in her country. Even if their pregnancy resulted from rape, they are condemned as prostitutes and thrown out by their families, and their babies are stigmatized as bastards...

November 9, 2009

Michael Kessler blogs: "Marriage and discrimination"

This week, Keith Bardwell quit his post as Justice of the Peace for the Eighth Ward of Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana. This would hardly be noteworthy except that Bardwell refused to marry couples from different races. Outrageous. But did Maine just sanction discrimination of a different sort?...

November 6, 2009

Interview with Aicha Ech-Channa on Changing Womenâ™s Realities in Morocco

On November 4, the Opus Prize Foundation announced Aicha Ech-Channa the winner of its annual million-dollar faith-based humanitarian award. In this interview, conducted by Katherine Marshall, Ms. Ech-Channa discusses her five decades of work helping unmarried mothers and their children in Morocco.

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May 16, 2025

Apply to Join the 2025-2026 Cohort

The application for the 2025-2026 cohort of the Women Faith Leaders Fellowship is open to Catholic sisters from Sub-Saharan Africa who are actively engaged in religious and community service. The fellowship seeks applicants dedicated to the development of their communities and the empowerment of women and girls, in service to the common good. 

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