By: Matt Hadro. Years before Pope Francis’ ecology encyclical was published, a Trappist monastery in the State of Virginia in USA went back to its spiritual roots by embracing environmental stewardship. “This really is a re-founding,” Fr. James Orthmann of Holy Cross Abbey in Berryville, Va. told Catholic News Agency, aContinue Reading
The village has named its lanes after its educated girlsContinue Reading
More than 10 years after being executed, Saddam Hussein remains a huge presence in the life of one man.Continue Reading
Sarita Santoshini A large room in an abandoned government building has been home to Babita (not her real name), 32, her husband and three children for about three years. It is strewn with tattered furniture and personal belongings, clothes drying on the window grille and a few pictures stuck toContinue Reading
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
The Mission Sisters of Ajmer was founded in 1911)Continue Reading
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
