By Jacob Peenikaparambil Indore, Sept 28, 2024: As many as 45 nuns from 32 congregations engaged in anti-human trafficking efforts participated in a workshop aimed at strengthening their leadership, team-building, and networking skills. The September 24-26 workshop at Prerana Sadan in Indore, Madhya Pradesh, focused on raising the awareness ofContinue Reading
By Thomas Scaria Mangaluru, July 23, 2022: Sri Lankans are experiencing one of the worst economic and political crises today, yet they enjoy an “unusual unity and brotherhood,” say some Catholic nuns in the island nation in South Asia. “The north and south are united. Sinhalese and Tamils have joinedContinue Reading
By Thomas Scaria Mangaluru, July 14, 2022: Lucy D’Souza was desperate. She lost her husband to cancer in 2020, and the pandemic took away her job as a housemaid. However, she managed to rebuild her life with what she says is “timely support” from some Catholic nuns. “Today, I makeContinue Reading
By Saji Thomas Bhopal: Two Catholic nuns and two postulants were forced out of a train March 19 and paraded to a police station in Jhansi, a town in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. They were interrogated for five hours for allegedly violating a state law against forcibleContinue Reading
Lucknow: The railway police in Uttar Pradesh’s Jhansi town has arrested two people in a case related to the harassment of Catholic nuns during a recent train journey. “In the case of forceful deboarding of nuns and teenagers from coach B-2 of Utkal Express at Jhansi railway station on 19Continue Reading
By Sujata Anandan New Delhi, Feb 16, 2020: Every bit of news, every single day in these times brings home to me how badly India is regressing into the dark ages. The latest in this series is the report of girls at a college hostel in Bhuj in Gujarat whoContinue Reading
By Cithara Paul Kochi, Dec. 26, 2018: When he became pontiff in 2013, Pope Francis chose not to move to the Apostolic Palace, the official papal residence; he remained in a humble guest house where he had been staying earlier. He has his meals at the guest house, which isContinue Reading
Rome, Nov. 25, 2018: The Catholic Church’s global organization of nuns has denounced the “culture of silence and secrecy” surrounding sexual abuse in the church and is urging sisters who have been abused to report the crimes to police and their superiors. The International Union of Superiors General, which representsContinue Reading
The comment is seen as a move to salve wounds opened by his predecessor
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