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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.

From St. John Bosco Parish in Jakarta, Indonesia, comes some really good news: you can turn your kitchen waste into a powerful enzyme that can possibly 'heal the world.'
St. John Bosco Parish, Jakarta, is home to the two-year-old Bosco Eco Enzyme (BEE) community, whose members are parish priests and parishioners, religious, housewives, students, and government officials. Christians and non-Christians are all involved in making the eco enzymes - a simple act of love to save Mother Earth.

Elizabeth Eguia, a mother of two young children, would always have to run home to secure their few things or stay up at night each time it rained. But not anymore. Eguia, a cook at a parish then, needed a safe roof over her family. Thanks to “The Love the Poor House” project which is anchored on “For I am homeless, and you gave me home!” (Matthew 25), under which she got a new house built. The whole project was started by Father Joel Jag Pacquiao Agad, the parish priest at Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish, Piñan of the Diocese of Dipolog in Zamboanga del Norte province, southern Philippines.

A Lisu Catechist named Peter Wo Par lives in Conifer village, away from Mogok city, more than 148 kilometers from Mandalay. Mogok is under the Diocese of Lashio.

Nay Aung and Khin Mar Oo’s family collects garbage for daily living on the 24th street in Mandalay, Myanmar. Nay Aung is raising five children, instilling a sense of hard work and honesty in them.

The Commission for Interfaith Relations and Beliefs (HAAK) of the Diocese of Bogor held a social service event with the theme "Synod of Tolerance: Towards an Advanced Indonesia, Strong Indonesia" on February 4.

Father Wilibrodus Andreas Bisa, OFM, pioneered and implemented pastoral ecopedagogy in his parish ministries at St. Francis of Assisi Church in Tentang, Flores, Indonesia.

The world’s first-ever STUDIO CHAPEL was inaugurated at Saint Paul’s Bandra Campus in Mumbai, India on January 28.

A Catholic priest urged people to have faith in God and worth together to attain prosperity and fruitfulness in life.

Mary and Jesus are so closely united that giving ourselves to Mary ultimately brings us to Jesus. Yet, little did young Joyce Lucas of Orlem, Malad West in Mumbai, know where being an active member of the Legion of Mary would ultimately lead her. Mary's embrace willy-nilly drew her to the heart of her loving Son, to be his instrument of communication in the media world.