India’s noted nun painter dies
2018-02-11
Sr Claire has created more than 2,000 Christian paintingsContinue Reading
Canonization process begins for pioneering French missionary nun
2017-12-02
Mother Gertrude died in 1905Continue Reading
Sr. Lilly Francis New Women’s Commission Secretary
2017-05-30
Bangalore – Sr. Lilly Francis (68) from the Salesian Missionaries of Mary Immaculate (SMMI) Nagpur Province was appointed as the Executive Secretary of the CCBI Commission for Women, earlier this month. The Conference of Catholic Bishops of India or CCBI, is the national Episcopal conference of the bishops of theContinue Reading
Impressing Popes with paintings
2017-01-25
By Philip Mathew Bengaluru: Sister Marie Claire is a Hindu convert who joined the Salesian Missionaries of Mary Immaculate (SMMI) when she was 17 and running away from an arranged marriage. Pope Benedict XVI had hailed the now-80-year-old nun as a church artist: He was greatly impressed with her paintingContinue Reading
Nun rape case accused acquitted in Chhattisgarh
2017-01-04
Raipur: A fast track court in Chhattisgarh has acquitted two youth accused of raping 48-year-old nun at a Medicare centre in Raipur in August 2015-an incident that had sparked protests in the state capital. Both the accused 19-year old Dinesh Dhurv and 25-year-old Jitendra Pathak were acquitted by the fastContinue Reading