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RV Gem Cuares “Dhon” Fideles, 46, an Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW) in Saudi Arabia’s Eastern Province goes extra mile to help others.

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A young girl from Myanmar shares how she got inspiration from the sick and poor people to become a social worker.

Manzuma Morshed, a business tycoon, promotes women to be entrepreneurs and helps them move forward in various ways in society.

"I want to be a blessing to others while I am young. I want to be involved in the international programs to contribute my ideas so that they can be useful for many people," says Agnes D. Butar Butar, an Indonesian Catholic woman.

"I am very proud that I am a Catholic who can contribute to the Kingdom of God," says a Cambodian Catholic.

In Vietnam, a charity clinic for rural peasants at the Thai Xuan Parish in the Xuan Loc Diocese has completed 20 years of healthcare service.

An elderly Buddhist monk stops at a Peinnegone Church rectory to sip tea and chew betelnut leaf in the Ayeyarwady region of Myanmar.

Last weekend, March 4-6, sixteen street theatre troupes brought lessons from real life to educate the hearts of the students and guests at St. Xavier's College of Management and Technology.

Over six decades ago, two nuns walking on the street met visually impaired children from economically poor backgrounds. The nuns established St. Joseph’s School for the Blind in Gnanaolivapuram parish in Madurai on December 8, 1972.

Chinzaniang was born in one of the remote village of Khuangtal, in the state of Manipur, along the India-Myanmar border. The missionaries of Chin Hills brought faith to these remote villages.

YANA, an acronym for "You Are Not Alone," is a Catholic single-mom categorical community founded in Indonesia on February 6, 2015.

On February 6, Archbishop Dominic Lumon of Imphal raised a mission centre to a parish church in Joldam, Khengjoy Block of Chandel District in Manipur, in eastern India. The archbishop handed over the parish to the Congregation of the Mission (CM).

A group of laywomen and men (re)built a chapel for one of the poorest communities in the Zamboanga Peninsula in four days.

Myanmar’s candidates for priestly formation are stuck at home, as seminaries and spirituality centres are closed due to Covid-19 and political crises for over a year.

It was with deep regret that the news of the sudden passing of a gentle, kindly soul into eternity was received in all quarters. Livia DeSa of Little Flower 1, Bandra, breathed her last on February 10, 2022, leaving not only her immediate family but also a cross-section of people—priests, nuns and laypeople alike—shell shocked.
Born on May 26, 1944, Livia, the fourth of the six children of the late Frank and Amy De Sa, was a teacher by profession and had a long innings in Saint Andrew’s High School, Bandra, from where she retired as Supervisor.

The Widya Yuwana Madiun Institute of Teacher Training and Education (STKIP) went on a mission trip to "call" Catholic youths to become religious teachers and catechists in the Tanjung Selor diocese, one of Indonesia's outermost dioceses, bordering with Malaysia.
Ardya Setya Nurvrita, Lecturer and Head of STKIP's Research Centre, took a mission trip to Tanjung Selor Diocese by STKIP Widya Yuwana Madiun from January 27 to February 14, 2022.

Father Patrick Isaac Home of Hope for women and children in Tamil Nadu, South India, welcomes abandoned girls, unwed mothers and women suffering domestic violence.

As a young girl, Margaret Mary worshiped native deities and attended church along with her Baptist friends. But arguments between her Baptist and Catholic friends led Mary in a state of confusion. Mary waited, seeking God to guide her to make a choice.

“If you judge people, you have no time to love them,” says Saint Mother Teresa of Calcutta. The truism of this assertion of the Saint of the gutters as she was widely known was in evidence when, at the close of the Season of Christmas 2021, a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) named ‘Seva Dham’ reached out to hamlets of brick kiln workers on the outskirts of Bhiwandi, which is an hour’s drive from Thane, a suburb of Mumbai in India.