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3 weeks ago | 
catholicreview.org | Stephan Rozario
DHAKA, Bangladesh (OSV News) — The Charity Fund of Divine Mercy Hospital was launched March 24 in the capital city of Dhaka to provide medical care to the poorest patients in Bangladesh. Divine Mercy Hospital is the flagship project of the Christian Cooperative Credit Union, or Dhaka Credit, a financial institution run by lay Christians in the country.
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3 weeks ago | 
news.diocesetucson.org | Stephan Rozario
DHAKA, Bangladesh (OSV News) -- The Charity Fund of Divine Mercy Hospital was launched March 24 in the capital city of Dhaka to provide medical care to the poorest patients in Bangladesh. Divine Mercy Hospital is the flagship project of the Christian Cooperative Credit Union, or Dhaka Credit, a financial institution run by lay Christians in the country.
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1 month ago | 
detroitcatholic.com | Stephan Rozario |Charles Fox |Greg Erlandson
DHAKA, Bangladesh (OSV News) – The Charity Fund of Divine Mercy Hospital was launched March 24 in the capital city of Dhaka to provide medical care to the poorest patients in Bangladesh. Divine Mercy Hospital is the flagship project of the Christian Cooperative Credit Union, or Dhaka Credit, a financial institution run by lay Christians in the country.
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1 month ago | 
globalsistersreport.org | Stephan Rozario |Gina Christian
Sr. Lorenza Raffaella Radini of the Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate works with Bangladeshi Indigenous youth, and even set up a computer lab for the girls. Radini studied and completed her higher education in economics and management at Bocconi University, Milan. She graduated in 2008 and joined the congregation in 2010. She received her first vow in 2014 and final vow in 2022.
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2 months ago | 
globalsistersreport.org | Nameeta Renu |Gina Christian |Stephan Rozario
Recently, during a seminar on women's issues where women participants were in the majority, a priest pointed out that the women organizers (almost all above 65) seemed to favor a select group of participants, while other women on the margins struggled to gain attention and speaking opportunities. On several occasions, similar dynamics have been observed during consultations for the Synod of Bishops on synodality at various church levels.
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2 months ago | 
news.diocesetucson.org | Stephan Rozario
DHAKA, Bangladesh (OSV News) -- Bangladesh's oldest and largest Catholic pilgrimage, venerating St. Anthony of Padua, drew thousands to the Archdiocese of Dhaka's shrine for an event that through the years has turned into an interfaith religious gathering. After nine days of novena prayers, two Masses were celebrated Feb. 7 in the Panjora shrine, near Bangladesh's capital, in the presence of about 40,000 thousand pilgrims. Archbishop Bejoy N.
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2 months ago | 
detroitcatholic.com | Stephan Rozario |Charles Fox |Greg Erlandson
DHAKA, Bangladesh (OSV News) -- Bangladesh's oldest and largest Catholic pilgrimage, venerating St. Anthony of Padua, drew thousands to the Archdiocese of Dhaka's shrine for an event that through the years has turned into an interfaith religious gathering. After nine days of novena prayers, two Masses were celebrated Feb. 7 in the Panjora shrine, near Bangladesh's capital, in the presence of about 40,000 thousand pilgrims. Archbishop Bejoy N.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
news.diocesetucson.org | Stephan Rozario
DHAKA, Bangladesh (OSV News) -- Christians and Indigenous minorities protested publicly against the beating of a minority woman and the burning of her house in Gobindganj, in the northern Gaibandha district of Muslim-majority Bangladesh. On Jan. 3, a mob led by a local political leader tried to grab the land of 50-year-old Philomina Hasdak, but the woman and her family members tried to stop them. Hasdak was beaten during the incident.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
ncronline.org | Gina Christian |Stephan Rozario
As deadly wildfires ravage Los Angeles, Catholics are mobilizing to help those impacted. Catholic Charities USA — the official domestic relief agency of the Catholic Church in the U.S. and a member of Caritas Internationalis, the church's global network of humanitarian organizations — is now accepting donations to its Los Angeles Wildfire Relief initiative, which can be accessed through the agency's website at catholiccharitiesusa.org.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
ncronline.org | Michael Sean Winters |Stephan Rozario |Gina Christian
People attend Mass at the Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption in San Francisco May 19, 2024. The San Francisco Archdiocese is facing calls to publish its list of clergy credibly accused of sexual abuse. (OSV News/Bob Roller) San Francisco — January 10, 2025 A lawyer for abuse survivors has accused San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore J.
