Roman Catholic Womenpriests is an organization that advocates for and ordains women as Catholic priests. Its ordained women are not recognized as priests by the broader Roman Catholic Church. It maintains a page listing all of its ordained women with contact information as well as a page of women priests by region with contact information. The main […]

Mary Keldermans was ordained as a Catholic priest by Roman Catholic Womenpriests in April 2014, an act for which she was excommunicated by her local bishop. She leads services at Holy Family Inclusive Catholic Community in Jacksonville, Ill., at the Congregational United Church of Christ.

The Rev. Trudy Robinson is a United Methodist Church clergywoman and was a leader in its Lead Women Pastors Project from 2008 to 2011. She leads the First United Methodist Church of Cheyenne, Wyo.

Hee Ann Choi is the director of the Anna Howard Shaw Center at Boston University’s School of Theology. She was the lead investigator on a 2012 study of retention of women clergy.

The Anna Howard Shaw Center at Boston University School of Theology is an ecumenical center focused on women in the clergy and women’s issues in religion that is affiliated with the United Methodist Church. In 2012, the center published a study on the retention of women clergy. Rev. Dr. Hee An Choi is the director […]

Dalia Hashad is the Arab, Muslim, South Asian advocate for the American Civil Liberties Union. She is part of the Campaign Against Racial Profiling, which focuses on issues facing Arab, Muslim and South Asian Americans in a post-9/11 world. 

Read an Oct. 4, 2013, story by the Thomson Reuters Foundation about infants being stolen in Guatemala so they can be put up for illegal adoption or sold into child pornography or prostitution.

This report, the first of its kind by the federal government, puts forth a five-year plan for improving government and nongovernment responses to human trafficking.