By Fiona Power Melbourne, Sept 10, 2023: Eighty years ago, Doctor Sister Mary Glowrey, an Australian born and educated medical missionary, founded India’s largest non-government healthcare network. Now called the Catholic Health Association of India, CHAI comprises more than 3,500 healthcare and social service member institutions across India. Thousands ofContinue Reading
By Thomas Scaria Guwahati, Aug 12, 2023: Sister Sanrupe Kharsyiumiong and her companion were busy recruiting candidates for her congregation in some parishes of Manipur, when ethnic violence targeting Christians erupted May 3 in the northeastern Indian state. After escaping, “our plan was to return in three days, but [we]Continue Reading
By Pretesh Kiran Bengaluru, Aug 12, 2023: St. John’s Medical College, Bangalore is celebrating its 60th year of existence this year. What was conceived as an idea in 1944, and started as a Medical College in 1963, is now known to many as a worldclass Medical College with over 750Continue Reading
By Thomas Scaria Bengaluru, July 28, 2023: Shalini Mathew (not her real name) thanks a home for women in distress managed by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Tarbes for bringing her out of her trauma. “I used to get up in the middle of night and scream for help,Continue Reading
By Thomas Scaria Bijapur, May 22, 2023: Gadyamma, who has been living as a devadasi since childhood, does not want her daughter to follow the oppressive tradition of being a female dancer in Hindu temples. “I became a devadasi when I was 12 under our village tradition, but I wantContinue Reading
By Robancy A Helen Konankuppam, May 11, 2023: Can a woman forget her nursing child, or show no compassion for the child in her womb? Even these may forget, but I will not forget you. See, I have inscribed you on the palms of my hands (Isaiah 49:15-16). These areContinue Reading
By Saji Thomas Kochi, May 11, 2023: Catholic nuns in Kerala continue to demand a ban on a controversial play two months after it was staged at an international theater festival in the southern Indian state. The play allegedly depicts them as lesbians and sexual partners of priests. “It isContinue 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 Thomas Scaria Mangaluru, March 24, 2023: Maria was 9 and a fourth grader in a convent school when she tested positive for HIV. She had lost her mother when she was just 3; her father, also an HIV patient, died last month in February. Maria (name changed) recalled herContinue Reading
By Maria Nirmalini Bengaluru, March 15, 2023: It is indeed a joyous occasion to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Pope Francis’ papacy and a genuine privilege for me to share a few thoughts on the impact the Holy Father has had on the world in general and on Indian womenContinue Reading