Missionary Sisters of the Holy Family talk about their experiences as part of their 2019 canonical visitation meeting in Nairobi, Kenya. (Courtesy of Lilian Atieno)
I want to echo the words of Sr. Elizabeth Nziwa Oyuka of the Assumption Sisters of Nairobi, Kenya: Wherever people are living and/or working together, there will be conflict. Religious communities are not an exception since religious live in a world filled with conflicts.
Oyuka presented a webinar workshop on conflict management in November in Nairobi, part of a series of education for leadership by the Leadership Guild of Tangaza University sponsored by the Association of Sisterhoods of Kenya and the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation. (Editor s note: The Hilton Foundation also funds Global Sisters Report.) She was addressing religious across the globe who are called by our vowed life to be ministers of reconciliation and resolution at all costs. I found her words very valuable and proper for myself, as I li