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1 week ago | 
globalsistersreport.org | Thomas Scaria
Austrian couple Gabin Thomas and Thomas Mittet say they rediscovered their Christian faith in Sri Lanka, an island nation in the Indian Ocean, after interacting with Catholic nuns there. "We were impressed by people's simple faith and the hospitality of the Catholic nuns managing church stalls," Thomas told Global Sisters Report as she came out of St. Sebastian's Church in Negombo, a Catholic stronghold about 25 miles north of Colombo, the nation's capital.
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3 weeks ago | 
mattersindia.com | Thomas Scaria
By Thomas ScariaMangaluru, May 14, 2025: A priest of the archdiocese of Trichur in Kerala was on May 14 found hanging from a ceiling fan in his room in the presbytery. Father Leo Puthoor was the parish priest of St Joseph’s Church, Pathiyaram, in Thrissur district in the southern Indian state. A circular from the archdiocesan vicar general Father Jaison Koonanplackal said the reason for the 34-year-old priest’s death was not known.
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1 month ago | 
globalsistersreport.org | Thomas Scaria
Durante más de 40 años Ajita Mathew Vettikuzhakunnel, una religiosa de las Hermanas Misioneras de la Reina de los Apóstoles, ha trabajado entre campesinas de las diócesis de Gorakhpur, Varanasi y Lucknow, en el norte de la India. A esta abogada de 68 años, doctora en Ciencias Sociales, se le atribuye el mérito de haber puesto en marcha en septiembre de 2023 una empresa agrícola, propiedad de mujeres rurales y dirigida por ellas.
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1 month ago | 
flipboard.com | Thomas Scaria
1 hour agoMet Gala 2025: Diljit Dosanjh Wasn't Allowed To Borrow Maharaja Of Patiala's $2.5 Billion Necklace; Here's WhyOn Monday, 5 May 2025, Diljit Dosanjh made a powerful statement at his Met Gala debut, walking the blue carpet at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s prestigious fashion event, formally known as the Costume Institute Benefit.
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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.
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1 month ago | 
globalsistersreport.org | Thomas Scaria |Brian Roewe
She said they still sit with the altar boys throughout the Mass and never feel discriminated against. Emidia Benedict, another female Mass reader, told GSR that she loves serving the church as a reader or altar servant. Benedict, dressed in a Mass reader's long-sleeved dress similar to the cassock with pictures of the Eucharist, said everyone has a right and duty to serve the altar in various roles.
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2 months ago | 
globalsistersreport.org | Thomas Scaria
Almost 65 years have passed since the Apostolic Carmel sisters and other Catholic religious congregations in Sri Lanka gave their educational institutions to the government. However, their reputation as educators remains intact. "Overnight, all our schools turned into government schools, and we became government employees," Apostolic Carmel Sr. Mary Ann Christine, principal of St. Anthony's Girls School (St. Anthony's Balika Maha Vidyalaya) in Colombo, told Global Sisters Report.
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2 months ago | 
ncronline.org | Thomas Scaria |Diego Mauro
Almost 65 years have passed since the Apostolic Carmel sisters and other Catholic religious congregations in Sri Lanka gave their educational institutions to the government. However, their reputation as educators remains intact. "Overnight, all our schools turned into government schools, and we became government employees," Apostolic Carmel Sr. Mary Ann Christine, principal of St. Anthony's Girls School (St. Anthony's Balika Maha Vidyalaya) in Colombo, told Global Sisters Report.
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2 months ago | 
globalsistersreport.org | Thomas Scaria
Rescuers work at the site of a damaged building in Mandalay, Myanmar, March 30, in the aftermath of a strong earthquake that struck two days earlier. People in Myanmar are in desperate need of humanitarian supplies and medical support as the death toll from the devastating earthquake that rocked central Myanmar continues to rise. (OSV News/Reuters) Women religious leaders and Catholic bishops in India have expressed solidarity with the people of earthquake-hit Myanmar and Thailand.
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2 months ago | 
island.lk | Thilina Walpola |Thomas Scaria
Catholic nuns in Sri Lanka are upset over a recent order from Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith banning girls from being altar servers, but have not protested as they did during a public stir against their country’s President in 2022. The Cardinal, the church leader of the island nation, issued the circular last October, saying serving at the altar is reserved for boys as it is “one of the the main sources” for priesthood vocations.
