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Indian Catholic sisters acknowledge Pope Francis' gifts of 'strength, dignity and space'

1 month ago | ncronline.org | Thomas Scaria |Dorothy Fernandes |Michael Sean Winters

The Conference of Women Religious India, the world's largest national forum of nuns, said that Pope Francis had given them "more strength, dignity and space in the church.""His love for religious life — especially for women in mission — gave us strength and dignity," said Sr. Maria Nirmalini, the conference president in a condolence message to the nuns in India. The conference has around 103,000 members spread over 280 religious congregations.
Catholic sisters demand safety for women health professionals in India

Sep 13, 2024 | globalsistersreport.org | Thomas Scaria |Maria Nirmalini |Dorothy Fernandes

Catholic nuns have joined civil rights and women groups to demand urgent steps to prevent increasing cases of sexual violence against women in the country. "If a doctor could be raped and killed in a government hospital during duty hours, how unsafe is it for other health professionals?" asked Sr. Victoria Narisetti, the president of the Catholic Health Association of India, the largest nongovernmental network of health professionals in the country.
Who will light the way? Who will reframe religious life?

Sep 12, 2024 | ncronline.org | Dorothy Fernandes

Religious life as we have known it has been a very effective means of being at the service of people. It has brought women and men to live the Gospel very radically. Since early times, many dedicated people ventured out to distant places to spread the word of God and bring about the reign of God.
Who will light the way? Who will reframe religious life?

Sep 12, 2024 | globalsistersreport.org | Dorothy Fernandes |Christopher White

Religious life as we have known it has been a very effective means of being at the service of people. It has brought women and men to live the Gospel very radically. Since early times, many dedicated people ventured out to distant places to spread the word of God and bring about the reign of God.
In India, the largest democracy faces crossroad

May 24, 2024 | globalsistersreport.org | Dorothy Fernandes

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held highWhere knowledge is freeWhere the world has not been broken up into fragmentsBy narrow domestic walls …Where words come out from the depth of truthWhere tireless striving stretches its arms toward perfectionInto that Heaven of Freedom, my father, let my country Awake …This prayer of Rabindranath Tagore remains profoundly relevant today, resonating with the yearnings and longings of every Indian heart.
Upholding India's constitutional values with a Christian response

Jan 25, 2024 | globalsistersreport.org | Dorothy Fernandes

The Forum of Religious for Justice and Peace, a solidarity group of religious women and men established in 1987, has been actively working for justice in the church and society at large. Our membership is deeply engaged at the grassroots level with communities on the periphery, taking up their issues for the cause of justice. Recently, we organized a national workshop Oct. 12-14, 2023, in Trivandrum, Kerala.
The Day of the Poor in India: 'Are We Not Human Beings Too?'

Nov 19, 2023 | asianews.it | Dorothy Fernandes

Patna (AsiaNews) - The Church today celebrates the World Day of the Poor throughout the world, established by Pope Francis at the end of the Jubilee of Mercy. "Do not turn your face away from anyone who is poor" is the theme suggested by the pontiff for this event.
Unraveling threads: Navigating India's changing democracy with faith

Aug 23, 2023 | globalsistersreport.org | Joyce Meyer |Stephan Rozario |Dorothy Fernandes

The world's largest democracy seems to be crumbling due to the lack of visionary leaders. Unfortunately, the ones at the helm of affairs came to office not to govern this nation but to change the very idea of India. What is happening in India is a total breakdown of governance. The concept of governance is not in any way in the mind of those who had taken an oath to safeguard the secular, socialist, sovereign, democratic idea of this republic.
Indian Catholic religious answer nun's call to solidarity, join protests

Jun 19, 2023 | globalsistersreport.org | Chris Herlinger |Thomas Scaria |Maria Nirmalini |Dorothy Fernandes

Catholic religious congregations in India seem to have taken a "wakeup call" seriously from their leader. "We cannot be silent when the country is burning with divisive forces everywhere," Sr. Maria Nirmalini, president of the Conference of Religious India, said in a June 1 letter addressed to more than 130,000 nuns, priests and brothers belonging to 399 congregations across the country.
Embracing vulnerability as possibility

Jun 8, 2023 | mattersindia.com | Dorothy Fernandes

By Dorothy FernandesPatna, June 8, 2023: The theme of our congregational gathering is Embracing Vulnerability as Possibility. This theme reflects the vulnerability that we are experiencing within self, province/congregation, religious life and within the world.