By Robancy A Helen Konankuppam, May 11, 2023: Can a woman forget her nursing child, or show no compassion for the child in her womb? Even these may forget, but I will not forget you. See, I have inscribed you on the palms of my hands (Isaiah 49:15-16). These areContinue Reading
By Saji Thomas Kochi, May 11, 2023: Catholic nuns in Kerala continue to demand a ban on a controversial play two months after it was staged at an international theater festival in the southern Indian state. The play allegedly depicts them as lesbians and sexual partners of priests. “It isContinue Reading
By Thomas Scaria Moodabidri, April 27, 2023: Valerie Gastager, a German student, was excited to eat what she grew at the farm of a Catholic convent in southern India. “We harvested and ate the vegetables we grew,” Gastager said Feb. 28 as she showed Global Sisters Report the kitchen gardenContinue Reading
By Thomas Scaria Mangaluru, March 24, 2023: Maria was 9 and a fourth grader in a convent school when she tested positive for HIV. She had lost her mother when she was just 3; her father, also an HIV patient, died last month in February. Maria (name changed) recalled herContinue Reading
By Maria Nirmalini Bengaluru, March 15, 2023: It is indeed a joyous occasion to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Pope Francis’ papacy and a genuine privilege for me to share a few thoughts on the impact the Holy Father has had on the world in general and on Indian womenContinue Reading
By Saji Thomas Khandwa, Feb. 10, 2023: Sister Ambika Pillai is seated at a table while answering the children’s questions around the table, all busily creating decorations out of colored paper. Pillai, a member of the Daughters of Our Lady of the Garden, is the secretary of Navjeevan (New Life)Continue Reading
By Molly Fernandes Sancoale, Feb 2, 2023: February 2 is the World Day of Consecrated Life, instituted by Pope John Paul II in 1997, urging the faithful to pray for the religious. The day is also the feast of the Presentation or Offering of Jesus in the Temple which St.Continue Reading
By Thomas Scaria Bengaluru, Feb 1, 2023: The first time Sisters Saly Joseph and Roselin Jose met a transgender woman, they were waiting at a bus stand in a southern Indian city. “Sister, can you come and pray for my mother?” the woman, Ranjitha, asked them. Joseph recalled being hesitantContinue Reading
By Ivan Fernandes Bangkok, Dec 10, 2022: The Covid-19 pandemic which began at the end of 2019 has caused “serious hardship” relating to domestic violence, sexual abuse, increased child labor exploitation and mental health to children and adolescents, particularly girls, says a new study by nuns from four congregations. TheContinue Reading
By Jessy Joseph New Delhi, Nov 15, 2022: For Jaishree Sabharwal, Shanti Avedna Sadan (Home of Painless Peace) was a heaven on Earth where some “angels” took care of her mother, a terminally ill cancer patient. “I brought my mother here on July 22 after she was diagnosed with stageContinue Reading
