Laura Sheahen is Catholic Relief Services’ Regional Information Officer for Asia. CRS is the international humanitarian agency of the Catholic community in the United States. It works to help impoverished people in nearly 100 countries, without regard to race, religion or nationality.

	July 27th, 2011 Responding to Hunger, Drought and Famine in East Africa Fleeing war and famine, fighting off attacks from bandits and lions, thousands of refugees are flooding out of Somalia on foot each week. Busted Halo contributor Laura Sheahen, a communications officer with the humanitarian aid ...
	July 22nd, 2011 Making Peace in the Philippines "When our first child was born, my husband said, 'Now I have a son to avenge my family.' He named our baby boy Rambo." I usually associate the birth of a baby with fuzzy booties, not ...
	April 13th, 2010 Freeing India’s Sex Slaves My visit to Mumbai's red light district So this is where my work for Catholic Relief Services had led me: to a brothel. I was in the middle of a red light district in the go-go city of Mumbai on India's west ...
	October 16th, 2009 Impressions of a Quake’s Aftermath A Catholic Relief Services worker in Indonesia I'm an information officer for Catholic Relief Services in Asia. This past month, we've had our hands full keeping up with the string ...
	March 24th, 2005 Travels of the Great White Visitor Journeying to the third world to meet my sponsored child. "Noticeably fuller, sexier lips in 90 seconds," read the subject line of the spam email. Interesting news, but not something I could focus on. I was leaving the next ...