By Saji Thomas Khandwa, Feb. 10, 2023: Sister Ambika Pillai is seated at a table while answering the children’s questions around the table, all busily creating decorations out of colored paper. Pillai, a member of the Daughters of Our Lady of the Garden, is the secretary of Navjeevan (New Life)Continue Reading
By Molly Fernandes Sancoale, Feb 2, 2023: February 2 is the World Day of Consecrated Life, instituted by Pope John Paul II in 1997, urging the faithful to pray for the religious. The day is also the feast of the Presentation or Offering of Jesus in the Temple which St.Continue Reading
By Thomas Scaria Bengaluru, Feb 1, 2023: The first time Sisters Saly Joseph and Roselin Jose met a transgender woman, they were waiting at a bus stand in a southern Indian city. “Sister, can you come and pray for my mother?” the woman, Ranjitha, asked them. Joseph recalled being hesitantContinue Reading
By Ivan Fernandes Bangkok, Dec 10, 2022: The Covid-19 pandemic which began at the end of 2019 has caused “serious hardship” relating to domestic violence, sexual abuse, increased child labor exploitation and mental health to children and adolescents, particularly girls, says a new study by nuns from four congregations. TheContinue Reading
By Jessy Joseph New Delhi, Nov 15, 2022: For Jaishree Sabharwal, Shanti Avedna Sadan (Home of Painless Peace) was a heaven on Earth where some “angels” took care of her mother, a terminally ill cancer patient. “I brought my mother here on July 22 after she was diagnosed with stageContinue Reading
By Thomas Scaria Bengaluru, Nov 6, 2022: No relatives or friends turned up to receive Nanjamma when she was released after 14 years from a southern Indian prison. However, the Hindu woman found a Catholic nun waiting for her at the prison gate, ready to take her to a rehabilitationContinue Reading
By Saji Thomas Kochi, Oct 27, 2022: A book narrating a legal battle by six nuns with an archdiocese over a decades-long property dispute exposes the underbelly of the church hierarchy, say people who have followed the case. “Like the story of David and Goliath, these simple sisters took onContinue Reading
By Thomas Scaria Vizhinjam, Oct 4, 2022: A fall from a bike during a rally did not deter Sister Sali Joseph from supporting fishers protesting the construction of an international port in coastal southwestern India. The fishing harbor being converted into an international seaport “has already caused severe damage toContinue Reading
By C M Paul Shillong, September 18, 2022: Little Flower Nursery School under Salesian Holy Family Church Rongjeng in East Garo Hills of Meghalaya state is an unconventional way of running a nursery school for most deprived and below poverty line families. “Here we run 11 barefoot schools in 11Continue Reading
By Thomas Scaria Kottayam, Sept 17, 2022: Teachers noticed Theresa* behaving strangely as she started the second of her four-year engineering course in the southwestern Indian state of Kerala. The studious student turned pale and frequently skipped classes, ignored studies, and moved with a few select friends. The teachers suspectedContinue Reading