By Ancie Wilfred and Lissy Maruthanakuzhy Nagpur: Lakshmibhai Kotpalliwar is a familiar sight at the gate of St Francis School in Nagpur. The 75-year-old woman has been selling sweets from the same spot for the past 50 years, whether sun or rain, winter or summer. Her admirers include thousands ofContinue Reading
Bishop D’Silva is setting an example for followers of all religionsContinue Reading
Nirmala Carvalho A young widow in Bombay, Corinne Rodrigues, did not let the hardships of life overtake her. Through her faith, grace and strength Rodrigues built a wide scale movement for widows, administered to the needy and faced an earthquake…all while raising three boys. Corinne Rodrigues, single mom and parishContinue Reading
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Thane: They wear uniforms, carry satchels and eagerly recite the alphabet in class, but the students here are different — this is a “school for grannies” near Mumbai. Deprived of an education as children, the women — most of whom are widows and aged between 60 and 90 — areContinue Reading
School on Wheels will formally start mid March at JamshedpurContinue Reading
Tucked away in the dusty town of Sardhana, an hour-and-a-half’s drive from Delhi, is the largest church in north India. Now declared a minor Basilica, the church of Our Lady of Graces is a beautiful monument and a tribute to an amazing woman. No one knows the birth name ofContinue Reading
By : Rajan Luthra Sheroes’ Hangout is a heart-warming café run by five acid attack survivors. Coming out with courage, this is a first of its kind initiative in a country where beyond suppression, there’s fierce trauma and a scarred life. You’ve read about them, seen them and heard aboutContinue Reading
Last month, 44 women from south Asian countries met at St Pius College, a Catholic seminary in a Mumbai suburb, to discuss their perspective on climate change and its impact on vulnerable populations. Engagement with environmental issues is not a new thing for the church. More than two decades ago,Continue Reading
By Saramma Emmanuel Ajmer: Sangram Singh is a worried man today. He does not know where to go with his 70-member joint family after his almost 500–year-old ancestral property is evacuated. “We have been living here for generations,” the 36-year-old resident of Rathodon Ki Dhaani, a dusty village on theContinue Reading