By Christopher Khoo Singapore, Oct 28, 2021: When will all this end? I remember asking myself this several times last year as the Covid-19 pandemic dragged on week after week, month after month. And then, when it looked as if the clouds were lifting and infection rates dropping, another surgeContinue Reading
By Lavina D’Souza Ministry Mumbai, Oct 25, 2021: Crossing a river or stream to reach certain villages used to be part of my local travels when I served in a village in the interior of India a few years ago. And many times when I reached midway in the stream,Continue Reading
By Jan Tellis Guwahati, Oct 17, 2021: Let me start with the words of Roderick Davis, the actor: “Love is the root of missions; sacrifice is the fruit of missions.” That sums up my four years of stay in faraway Paraguay, in South America. Life in the missions helps meContinue Reading
By Irudhaya Jothi Kailashahar, Tripura, Oct. 16, 2021: In the 2021 Global Hunger Index, India ranks 101 out of the116 countries with sufficient data to calculate 2021 scores. With a score of 27.5, India has a level of hunger that isserious. India was ranked 94 in the previous year, nowContinue Reading
By Celine Paramundayil Khandwa, Oct. 14, 2021: “You may find snakes in the garden but please don’t kill them. They have a right to live in this property like us. They will not hurt you unless you hurt them.” This was the instruction Sister Molly Vadaken, the community coordinator, gaveContinue Reading
By Gepsina Fernandes Mumbai, Oct 14, 2021: I would like to share the wonders Lord Jesus has worked in my life. I thank God for the innumerable opportunities He has given me to praise Him and to testify to His goodness and faithfulness in my life. With Him by myContinue Reading
By Lissy Maruthanakuzhy Panaji, Oct 13, 2021: When September came this year, it brought joyful memories of my school life and of my teachers, beginning with nursery school. I remember with love my teachers who stood by me in my moments of doubt and pain, and rejoiced at even myContinue Reading
By Fr F. M. Britto Raipur, Oct 11, 2021: Just two years after my priestly ordination, having served as an assistant in rural Pithora parish, our then Raipur Diocesan Administrator Monsignor Francis Werner Hunold appointed me as the first priest in charge of a new town parish Kawardha in aContinue Reading
BY Shalini Mulackal New Delhi, Oct 11, 2021: The first phase of the 16th Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops will take place from October 17 to April 2022. Preparations are already underway towards this. The Preparatory Document (PD) and the handbook (Vademecum) that accompanies it for conductingContinue Reading
By Jaswant Kaur New Delhi, Oct. 10, 2021: Asha (name changed) stays with her extended family in the slums of Noida, a planned city in India’s northern state of Uttar Pradesh. Ever since she was born, she had been facing constant abuse. For a family of 12, where seven areContinue Reading