India fails to meet illiteracy rate reduction target
2015-04-09
A new Unesco global education report says India could reduce illiteracy rate only by 26 percentContinue Reading
The ‘angel’ among the garbage-pickers
2015-04-08
Amid the filth and despair of Cairo’s worst slums, a middle-class ‘lady in white’ feels called by God to protect the children who must sort rubbish to stay aliveContinue Reading
Muslim Actor: ‘It’s An Honor to Play Jesus’
2015-04-06
From Jeffrey Hunter and Max von Sydow to Robert Powell and Willem Dafoe, the actors who play Jesus have been strikingly European, ethnically speaking. Even Campus Crusade’s Jesus movie, which once advertised the fact that all the Jewish supporting characters were played by local Israeli actors, cast British actor BrianContinue Reading
Sexual violence: A collusion of silence & suppression
2015-04-04
During a recent youth retreat 15 girls shared they were sexually abused by friends and relativesContinue Reading
“Limb”ing back to life
2015-03-31
Armed with new limbs Rajesh gained confidence and got back to his jobContinue Reading
Miao diocese charts new frontiers
2015-03-31
The diocese is committed to providing value-based, soulful higher education in order to help them become agents of transformation within and around themContinue Reading
Beggars run bank for beggars
2015-03-28
40 beggars are members of this unique “bank”Continue Reading
Built to feed poor but revered by all
2015-03-21
Hyderabad –The Medak Cathedral, the largest in South-Asia is located in the Medak Town about 90kms from Hyderabad, the capital of Andhra Pradesh. The Medak diocese, under the Church of South India (CSI) is the single largest diocese in Asia and the second in the world after Vatican. The formerly Anglican CathedralContinue Reading