By Irudaya Jothi SJ Kolkata, October 26, 2018: A Jesuit NGO has given birth to a women’s movement in Kolkata. “I am extremely happy and confident to run this movement and ready to take over the responsibility of running a NGO,” Basanti Saren, secretary of “Nari Mukti Chetna Sangatan.” “NariContinue Reading
By Kai Schultz New Delhi, Oct. 24, 2018: Before Hindus can climb the 18 golden steps leading to the Sabarimala Temple, a centuries-old hillside shrine in southern India, there are customs to observe. Devotees fast for 41 days, avoiding alcohol, tobacco and sex. They prepare bundles of goods to beContinue Reading
Manas R Bannerjee Siliguri, Oct 10, 2018: A section of artisans engaged in making Durga idols is reluctant to collect soil from red light areas, as is the tradition, due to several reasons, though they say they still believe in mythology and practice what their ancestors have taught them. Moreover,Continue Reading
Fr Cedric Prakash SJ (A personal tribute to GIRISH PATEL, doyen of the human rights movement in Gujarat- who died in Ahmedabad on 6 October 2018) It is hard to say “goodbye” to someone who has been so very special; someone who has meant so much to me and manyContinue Reading
By Saji Thomas Junagadh: Sr. Prasanna Devi says she badly misses the company of mongooses for evening tea in the tranquility of the forest. The Catholic hermit, who has lived among lions, panthers and other wild animals deep inside a forest in western India for 40 years, emerged to liveContinue Reading
By Philip Mathew Bengaluru: Sisters Ancila Devadass and Mary Nijo belong to two different congregations, but that does not hinder them from working together for Color the Fallen Stars, a project helping people who live in poverty in Bengaluru, a southern Indian city. Devadass, 37, a member of the DaughtersContinue Reading
The “experienced” Kurichyarmala people helped rebuild another schoolContinue Reading
Sister Elsie Vadakkekara started the mission moved by a story of a mentally ill person eating cow dungContinue Reading
‘We don’t have any fear’Continue Reading
The church deployed its personnel and opened its institutions across Kerala to help the flood victimsContinue Reading
