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Seeing church 'moving away' from India's young Catholics, sisters prioritize them

Sep 25, 2024 | ncronline.org | Thomas Scaria |Maria Nirmalini |Betsy Devasia

Catholic women religious in India have enhanced their youth ministry, with the aim to bring young people closer to the church and their traditions. "This involves not only working on their faith formation, skills training or academic excellence, but [also] understanding and accepting them as they are with their dreams, weaknesses and strengths," said Apostolic Carmel Sr. Maria Nirmalini, who heads the women's wing of the Conference of Religious India.
Seeing church 'moving away' from India's young Catholics, sisters prioritize them

Sep 25, 2024 | globalsistersreport.org | Thomas Scaria |Maria Nirmalini |Betsy Devasia |Rhina Guidos

Catholic women religious in India have enhanced their youth ministry, with the aim to bring young people closer to the church and their traditions. "This involves not only working on their faith formation, skills training or academic excellence, but [also] understanding and accepting them as they are with their dreams, weaknesses and strengths," said Apostolic Carmel Sr. Maria Nirmalini, who heads the women's wing of the Conference of Religious India.
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.
Inclusion of women in Synod is an ‘opportunity to share from our sacred spaces’

Nov 3, 2023 | vaticannews.va | Maria Nirmalini

Sister Nirmala with Pope Francis during his Apostolic Visit to Bahrain in November 2022 CHURCH Sister Maria Nirmalini offers her reflections on the synodal process in India before she participated as a member of the XVI Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops on synodality. By Maria Nirmalini, A.C. The news of being selected to participate in the Synod on Synodality came as a total surprise to me, though a pleasant one at that.
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.
Pope Francis has called us to a new way of being church

Mar 17, 2023 | vaticannews.va | Maria Nirmalini

By Sr Maria Nirmalini Global Sisters Report It is indeed a joyous occasion to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Pope Francis’ papacy and a genuine privilege for me to share a few thoughts on the impact the Holy Father has had on the world in general and on Indian women religious in particular over this decade. The first visuals at St. Peter’s Square on March 13, 2013, of Pope Francis’ election actually set the tone for what was to follow.
Pope Francis has called us to new way of being church

Mar 15, 2023 | mattersindia.com | Maria Nirmalini

By Maria NirmaliniBengaluru, March 15, 2023: It is indeed a joyous occasion to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Pope Francis’ papacy and a genuine privilege for me to share a few thoughts on the impact the Holy Father has had on the world in general and on Indian women religious in particular over this decade. The first visuals at St. Peter’s Square on March 13, 2013, of Pope Francis’ election actually set the tone for what was to follow.
Pope Francis has called us to a new way of being church

Mar 15, 2023 | globalsistersreport.org | Thomas Scaria |Maria Nirmalini

The other great challenge we face in India, as outlined in Laudato Si', is the care of our common home. India is a fast-growing economy, and in its race to catch up with others, it is tempted to sacrifice environmental concerns. More religious in India need to expend their energies on this area. The Indian church also suffers from what Pope Francis often refers to as an issue affecting the larger church: clericalism.
Camillian nuns in southern India bring hope, community to girls with HIV

Mar 15, 2023 | globalsistersreport.org | Thomas Scaria |Maria Nirmalini

Maria was 9 and a fourth grader in a convent school when she tested positive for HIV. She had lost her mother when she was just 3; her father, also an HIV patient, died in February. Maria (name changed) recalled her father and the hostel warden bringing her 17 years ago to Jeevadaan (Life giver), an HIV/AIDS rehabilitation center managed by the Daughters of St. Camillus in the outskirts of Mangaluru, a southwestern Indian port city.