New Delhi, Fe 24, 2019: After realizing that proper education is a distant dream for his soon-to-be born child, Ahmed Ali decided not to let the coming generation suffer in privation and penury. The rickshaw-puller from Karimganj district Assam has built nine schools, ever since he envisioned the need forContinue Reading
by Lekshmi Priya S Kochi, Feb. 15, 2019: Five years ago, Sister Lizzy Chakkalakkal, principal of a school in Kochi, Kerala, discovered that one of her students was homeless. This prompted the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary nun and some students of Our Lady’s Convent Girls Higher Secondary School, Thoppumpady, toContinue Reading
By Joanna Slater Angadippuram, Feb 12, 2019: A mother of two from a conservative family in southern India, Kanakadurga was told over and over again by her relatives how a good wife should behave. She should obey her husband’s wishes. She should adapt to his family’s ways. And she shouldContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, Feb. 11, 2019: Students of a regional theology center in Jharkhand state say their recent visit to the tomb of a Belgian Jesuit martyr has helped them understand the cost of engaging in interfaith dialogue. “I went to the pilgrimage without much enthusiasm, but feltContinue Reading
Aden, Feb. 2, 2019: Vandalized, caught in the crossfire, burnt to the ground: Yemen’s churches, once filled by small but diverse Christian communities, are now abandoned after years of devastating conflict. As Pope Francis prepares to make his first trip to the Gulf, neighboring Yemen — in the grip ofContinue Reading
New Delhi, Jan 31, 2019: Late one night in the fall, about 200 female students in Bhopal, a city in central India, held a rare demonstration on their college’s basketball court. Their very presence there was an act of protest: Women were not allowed to be outside their dormitories afterContinue Reading
By Elizabeth Sangeetha Paul Kolkata, Jan. 29, 2019: Sujata Chiti, an ordinary village dalit woman in her mid-30s, is vibrant women leader in 24 Parganas (South) district of West Bengal. She has mobilized around 1000 Dalit women and takes care of the issue of Rights and intervenes when there isContinue Reading
By Ria Das Beerwah, Jan 28, 2019: Inshah Bashir, who hails from Budgam district’s area in Kashmir, recalls herself as a sober and patient child. Now 24, Inshah fell from a height of 40 feet in her own under-construction house in 2008 and lost the ability to walk. However, sheContinue Reading
By Joanna Slater Edalpur, Jan 23, 2019: Late last month, the government administrator who oversees this area of farmland in northern India was in a meeting when she received a strange phone call. It was from a middle school principal in Edalpur, a village of 2,000 people surrounded by fieldsContinue Reading
Bhawana One evening, 26-year-old Silvy Kalra was walking down a Delhi street when she heard some domestic workers discussing how they and their daughters are teased and bullied by young boys and men in the neighbourhood throughout the day. Not only did Kalra understand the stress these women were goingContinue Reading