By M L Satyan Bengaluru, May 1, 2023: While working with many religious congregations during the past many years I have been reflecting on the values of a religious person (priest, brother, nun). On April 21-22, I conducted a training program for the junior sisters of the Good Shepherd CongregationContinue Reading
By M K George Rome, May 1, 2023: Four months ago, a fellow Jesuit introduced me to ChatGPT. I was amazed. Immediately, I used it to get an outline for a lecture I had to give soon after. Quick, to the point and absolutely logical and convincing, I felt ChatGPTContinue Reading
By Rani Punnaserril Jaipur, May 1, 2023: The Commission for Migrants of the Conference of the Catholic Bishops of India on May 1 drew plans to combat the issues of forced labor and human trafficking in its Agra region comprising 10 dioceses. Some 30 delegates from these dioceses attended aContinue Reading
By Thomas Scaria Moodabidri, April 27, 2023: Valerie Gastager, a German student, was excited to eat what she grew at the farm of a Catholic convent in southern India. “We harvested and ate the vegetables we grew,” Gastager said Feb. 28 as she showed Global Sisters Report the kitchen gardenContinue Reading
By Isaac Harold Gomes Kolkata, April 27, 2023: In Christianity utmost importance is given to human lives including all other living beings and natural resources. Each life matters. This has been detailed by Pope Francis in his encyclical Letter Laudato si (Care for our Common Home – the ecology). TheContinue Reading
By Thomas Scaria Colombo, April 27, 2023: (Editor’s note: Global Sisters Report’s new series, Hope Amid Turmoil: Sisters in Conflict Areas, offers a look at the lives and ministries of women religious serving in dangerous places worldwide. The news stories, columns and Q&As in this series will include sisters inContinue Reading
By Thomas Scaria Bengaluru, April 27, 2023: Apostolic Carmel Sister Maria Nirmalini was elected the president of the Conference of Religious India, the national body of major superiors of India’s Catholic religious, in November 2021 and assumed office in January 2022. The 58-year-old educator also heads the women section ofContinue Reading
By Salvatore Cernuzio Vatican City, April 26, 2023: The Secretariat for the Synod announces that 70 “non-bishop members” appointed by the Pope—half of whom will be women—will be able to vote at the Synod General Assembly in October. Neither the nature nor the name is changing—which remains the Synod ofContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, April 26, 2023: Bishop Isidore Fernandes, who was sacked by the Vatican ten years before his term could end, died April 26 in Allahabad (now Prayagraj) in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. He was 76. Bishop Fernandes died of a massive heart attackContinue Reading
By P M Antony Bagaicha, April 26, 2023: Friends and associates of late Jesuit social scientist Father Stan Swamy on April 26 observed his 86th birth anniversary at a center he founded near Ranchi, capital of Jharkhand state in eastern India. Father Stan, as he was popularly known, died onContinue Reading
