When refugees from heavily attacked eastern Ukraine arrived in the sisters' city en masse in the first few months of the war, the Basilians scrambled to offer them food, clothes and shelter at the monastery.
Officials and religious sisters see a perfect storm that began with the war in Ukraine, which rattled international markets and disrupted grain exports, leading to a rise in global hunger that will not be easily solved.
Trained pastoral caregiver and counselor Sr. Eusebia Maselitso Lerotholi's ministry has evolved into being the mother of many through an orphanage home. Despite the challenges, she tells GSR that she has achieved a lot.