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Jan 10, 2025 | 
oursundayvisitor.com | Stephan Uttom Rozario
Philimon Beskey, a Catholic leader from the Santal Indigenous community, led the protest. “We are the minority in terms of Indigenous and Christian religion. Some majority-Muslim people are trying to grab our land using their political power and torch us, but on the other hand many Muslim people stand on our side to help us,” Baskey told OSV News. He also asked for an end to land grabbing: “we want justice and to live in peace with all religions in the country,” Baskey added.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
ncronline.org | Stephan Uttom Rozario
Sr. Sufola Margaret Minj, an Oraon Indigenous woman from the Thakurgaon District in Bangladesh, is now in charge of a girls' hostel.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
ncronline.org | Gustavo Arellano |Michael Sean Winters |Stephan Uttom Rozario
The Jouyssance Early Music Ensemble performs "Convidando esta la noche," the closing song for "Spirit Child." (NCR screenshot/YouTube/Matthew Ian Welch) The Christmas season just ended, which means my wife is finally setting aside her holiday playlist. It's hundreds of tunes long, with the classics (the soundtrack to "A Charlie Brown Christmas," of course), the novelty (ever heard the Christmas album by Jamaican dancehall legend Yellowman?
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
ncronline.org | Michael Sean Winters |Stephan Uttom Rozario
Jimmy Carter in an undated photo taken during his 1977-81 presidency (Library of Congress/Bernard Gotfryd) Jimmy Carter was the first politician to get me excited about politics. After I watched the congressional Watergate hearings with my mom after school, Carter's promise that he would never lie to the American people seemed like the tonic America needed.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
globalsistersreport.org | Stephan Uttom Rozario
The Catechist Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Queen of Angels, popularly known as Shanti Rani ("Queen of Peace") Sisters, are bringing benefits to the advancement of women's education and vocations by running girls' hostels in the tribally populated northern Dinajpur Diocese of Bangladesh. Shanti Rani Sisters in Bangladesh are providing space for primary and higher education girls in 17 hostels, offering educational opportunities as well as cultural and religious education.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
ncronline.org | Michael Sean Winters |Stephan Uttom Rozario
Following are NCR reader responses to recent news articles, opinion columns and theological essays with letters that have been edited for length and clarity. Priests in PalestineMy heartfelt thanks to Camillo Barone for his excellent article "Under siege, Catholic priests in war-torn Gaza and the West Bank care for the faithful" (ncronline.org, Jan. 2, 2024). I hope this article sets a new standard of reporting on Palestine for NCR in 2025.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
ncronline.org | Michael Sean Winters |Stephan Uttom Rozario
People vote in the U.S. presidential election on Election Day, Nov. 5 at Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Erie, Pa. (OSV News/Reuters/Shannon Stapleton) A thought that has been evolving in Catholic circles in recent years apparently achieved a rare point of consensus in our divided church with the most recent U.S. election: Catholics are politically homeless. The phrase is everywhere in the Catholic universe.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
ncronline.org | Helga Leija |Michael Sean Winters |Stephan Uttom Rozario
Wisdom from the Global Sisterhood — Global Sisters Report's first book published earlier this year — is a powerful collection of columns from women religious all over the world. Each chapter offers a window into their daily lives, their meditations, and the incredible work they do to make the world a better place.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
ncronline.org | Stephan Uttom Rozario
In the courtyard of the house of Ganesh Chandra Mandal, there is little open space anywhere, but there are vegetables planted everywhere. For years, Mandal, 65, has grown indigenous vegetables — okra, corn, cucumber, carrots, beets, turnips, onions, ridged gourd and teasel gourd — in all parts of his 1.25-hectare (3-acre) house and 2.51-hectare (6.2-acre) paddy land.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
spotlight.licas.news | Stephan Uttom Rozario
Shifting donor priorities leave Catholic Church struggling to support Indigenous people's desperate defense of their ancestral land in Bangladesh In Muslim-majority Bangladesh, efforts by the Catholic Church and Caritas Bangladesh to address land issues affecting religious and ethnic minority tribal groups have stalled due to a lack of donor funding.
