By Emily TeKolste Indiana, April 7, 2022: Almost 10 years ago, I spent a month working at a farm in northern India. Every day about the same time, as we were working in the fields, we’d hear a beautiful, melodic chant. I loved hearing this call to prayer punctuate myContinue Reading
By Thomas Scaria Mangaluru, April 7, 2022: A Catholic nun from India serving the war-hit people of Ukraine says hungry and frustrated Russian soldiers now invade Ukrainian homes, loot food and rape women. “We hear stories of such atrocities almost daily, and we too live in fear and anxiety,” saysContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, April 7, 2022: A Catholic nun working among the poor, especially Dalits, has expressed shock at the exposure of an infant selling racket in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. Poverty alone is not the reason for the “rather unfortunate” racket, asserts Sister ManjuContinue Reading
By Monita Soni Jalsa is a stunning story about two mothers trapped at the crossroads of guilt and revenge… Vidya Balan plays Maya Menon, an accomplished, ambitious, and cut-throat journalist for the TV channel “Face the Truth.” She lives in a posh sea-facing flat in Mumbai with her son, Ayush,Continue Reading
By Rani Punnaserril New Delhi, April 6, 2022: Catholic dioceses in northern India have decided to launch a series of steps to help the poor and migrant workers. To start with, they would launch programs to educate migrants about various government welfare programs as part of the Church’s attempts toContinue Reading
Vatican City, April 6, 2022: Global outrage continues to mount against Russia as Ukrainian authorities said that the bodies of more than 410 civilians have been found in towns around Kyiv after the Russian pullout from the besieged city. Photos and videos online purportedly showed the streets of Bucha, northwestContinue Reading
By Lisa Zengarini Vatican City, April 6, 2022: The Vatican has called for closer international cooperation to ensure that victims of human trafficking receive adequate care and appropriate forms of restoration. Monsignor Janusz Urbańczyk, the Vatican Permanent Observer to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), reaffirmed thisContinue Reading
By Sami Ahmad Ranchi, April 3, 2022: A notification by the government of Jharkhand banning ‘illegal mining and selling of mica’ has put the livelihoods of thousands of mica scrap dealers and laborers in jeopardy. Around 200,000 unorganized workers are involved in mica business in Jharkhand, a mineral rich state,Continue Reading
By Anand Mathew Varanasi, April 3, 2022: The Indian Missionary Society has a new pan Indian service team for the coming six years headed by Father Prasanna Raj. They were elected at a week-long general chapter that ended March 1 at Vishwa Jyoti Gurukul, Christnagar, Varanasi, the mother house ofContinue Reading
By Francis Sunil Rosario Kolkata, April 3, 2022: Sister Mary Joseph, the newly elected superior general of the Missionaries of Charity, says her global congregation will continue its original mission of serving the poorest of the poor, despite numerous hurdles. She also asserts that religious conversion is not their agendaContinue Reading
