Sahana Ghosh Puri, Mar. 21, 2019: For close to 20 years after a supercyclone ravaged Odisha, a group of women along the coast has been standing sentinel over their beloved storm-shielding forest and mangrove cover. Deftly swinging and beating their sturdy bamboo sticks, 75 women in Gundalba village in theContinue Reading
by Saji Thomas Kuravilangad, March 11, 2019: As the Vatican grapples to devise stronger protocols and responses following a historic summit focused on clergy sex abuse of minors, five nuns in India complain of church repression for their support of a former superior general who was allegedly raped by aContinue Reading
By Damian Carrington March 3, 2019: Humankind is revealed as simultaneously insignificant and utterly dominant in the grand scheme of life on Earth by a groundbreaking new assessment of all life on the planet. The world’s 7.6 billion people represent just 0.01 percent of all living things, according to theContinue Reading
By Rahul Karmakar Guwahati, March 3, 2029: The Indian Army, the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and the Border Security Force (BSF) have never had a problem deploying them to protect the country’s borders. However, these battle-hardened men from a western Assam village have struggled for years to overcome aContinue Reading
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
