Bed-Stuy Sisters Offer Tools for Financial Prosperity
March 1, 2017Two Bedford-Stuyvesant sisters offer what they learned about money after starting life in poverty. Our Liz Faublas meets successful entrepreneurs Nadia and […]
Topic: Poverty
Riva Silverman of HIAS
October 27, 2016Trailer for “Refugees: Enemies or Victims” featuring interviews with Riva Silverman of HIAS, a refugee aid organization. The Syrian Civil War has created […]
Local Leaders Gather to Discuss Poverty
October 19, 2016At Fordham University’s Manhattan campus, Church leaders and practitioners gather to discuss the issue of poverty throughout the world.
Brooklyn Cafe Helps With Hurricane Matthew Relief
October 14, 2016Tim Harfmann reports from Bedford Stuyvesant as a Haitian cafe collects hundreds of items to send to the homeland. After Hurricane Matthew […]
Transitus of St. Francis of Assisi
October 4, 2016Transitus is the annual celebration by Franciscans throughout the world of St. Francis’ passing from this life to eternal life with God. It […]
Liz Faublas Previews Tonight’s News
September 14, 2016Liz Faublas gives the rundown for the September 14th edition of Currents, including the outcome of the New York Primaries, a report […]
A New Statue of the Newest Saint
September 1, 2016Though she was born in Albania, Mother Teresa has a deep connection to the nearly one million Indian-Americans living in New York. […]
’92: The Striped Sari Comes to Brooklyn
August 23, 2016It was in 1992 when Father Joseph Nugent spoke with Mother Teresa and asked her to send sisters who would work with […]
Catholic Charities
June 16, 2016Today, Joe Estevez visits Catholic Charities in East Los Angeles and talks to Roberto Ramirez and the director of the branch, Mary […]
Sheltering the Soul, Part One
May 19, 2016In this first report of the series on homelessness in New York City, Currents correspondent Konrad Aderer visits a parish-run homeless shelter […]