By C.M. Paul Bilaspur, Oct. 29, 2018: Two year old Reshmi (name changed) tried every trick she knew not to go to her neighborhood school. Prakash (name changed) her father, an advocate in the district court had heard about Didaskaleinophobia – kid’s fear of going to school. He consulted SabinaContinue Reading

By Luke Hansen, SJ Rome, Oct. 28, 2018: A young priest in the Czechoslovak Hussite Church has been pleasantly surprised by the welcome and openness she has experienced at the Synod of Bishops on young people, she told America in an interview. A fraternal delegate, Reverend Martina Viktorie Kopecká, 32,Continue Reading

By Irudaya Jothi SJ Kolkata, October 26, 2018: A Jesuit NGO has given birth to a women’s movement in Kolkata. “I am extremely happy and confident to run this movement and ready to take over the responsibility of running a NGO,” Basanti Saren, secretary of “Nari Mukti Chetna Sangatan.” “NariContinue Reading

By Kai Schultz New Delhi, Oct. 24, 2018: Before Hindus can climb the 18 golden steps leading to the Sabarimala Temple, a centuries-old hillside shrine in southern India, there are customs to observe. Devotees fast for 41 days, avoiding alcohol, tobacco and sex. They prepare bundles of goods to beContinue Reading

Fr Cedric Prakash SJ (A personal tribute to GIRISH PATEL, doyen of the human rights movement in Gujarat- who died in Ahmedabad on 6 October 2018) It is hard to say “goodbye” to someone who has been so very special; someone who has meant so much to me and manyContinue Reading

By Philip Mathew Bengaluru: Sisters Ancila Devadass and Mary Nijo belong to two different congregations, but that does not hinder them from working together for Color the Fallen Stars, a project helping people who live in poverty in Bengaluru, a southern Indian city. Devadass, 37, a member of the DaughtersContinue Reading