By Moin Qazi Nagpur: For Pyare Zia Khan, the best Zakat or charity during the holy month of Ramadan is to help his pandemic-ravaged city get oxygen. He has arranged more than 20 oxygen tankers for Nagpur at his own expense as the Orange city grapples with shortages of life-savingContinue Reading
By Sr Lissy Maruthanakuzhy An Ashram in the midst of a modern cosmopolitan city like Mumbai sounds an anomaly. In the digital era of speed in every aspect of life, particularly communication; silence of an ashram resounds strangeness. However, Dhyan Kutir (House of Meditation) at Gyan Ashram Campus, Andheri andContinue Reading
By Jessy Joseph New Delhi: A hermit nun’s mission deep inside the Girnar mountain range in western India’s Gujarat state has a new successor. “I had no plan or desire to lead an ascetic life, but God called me to continue the Mathaji’s mission,” says Father Christanand who moved intoContinue Reading
Today, Dominique Dawes is a three-time Olympian and Olympic gold medalist. But back in 1996, she was a teenage girl feeling the weight of the world on her shoulders. “Before the 1996 Olympic games, all of us, we were known as the Magnificent Seven being the first women’s team toContinue Reading
By Felix Anthony Longding: The Vincentian Congregation has elected Father John Kandathinkara, a missionary priest working in Longding District of Arunachal Pradesh as their new superior general. The 66-year-old priest was elected April 14 during the Kerala-based congregation’s general chapter held at Edappally in Kochi. Father Kandathinkara is currently workingContinue Reading
New Delhi: Sohan Singh says protesting at Delhi’s Singhu border is his last battle. The 92-year-old man from Ferozepur has been a part of the farmers agitation since the beginning and believes this “to be the last battle” after having witnessed the 1947 Partition and 1984 riots. Sohan Singh wasContinue Reading
By Shalini S Kozhikode: Fifteen-year-old Noora Zaineb just finished her ninth-grade annual exams but promotion to the next grade is not the only thing she is looking forward to this year. Noora has made planting trees her mission. With the help of her father, Zaineb is on a mission toContinue Reading
By R Sujatha Chennai: An air service agency in Canada that offers flight training has come forward to help India’s D Udhayakeerthika fulfill her childhood dream of becoming an astronaut. Harv’s Air Academy at Steinbach in Canada has accepted the 23-year-old resident of Allinagaram in the Theni district of TamilContinue Reading
By Jessy Joseph New Delhi: Sister Preetha Varghese has been feeding hundreds of people living in poverty in the streets of New Delhi after her arrival in the Indian capital in 2016. The 44-year-old member of the Sisters of the Imitation of Christ, also called the Bethany Sisters, works forContinue Reading
Rome: Margaret Karram from the Holy Land was elected president of the Focolare Movement, an international organization that promotes the ideals of unity and universal brotherhood. The 58-year-old Arab Catholic woman won more than two thirds of the votes cast in the movement’s 359-member General Assembly held on January 31.Continue Reading
