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1 week ago | 
mattersindia.com | Thomas Scaria
By Thomas ScariaBengaluru, June 17, 2025: Masthan Sahib has worked with Catholic nuns for four decades in a leprosy rehabilitation center in Bengaluru, the capital of the southern Indian state of Karnataka. The center, Sumanahalli, is under the Bangalore Archdiocese, aided by the state government, and managed by nuns and priests of different congregations.
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2 weeks ago | 
globalsistersreport.org | Thomas Scaria |Tawanda Karombo |Paul Jeffrey
Masthan Sahib has worked with Catholic nuns for four decades in a leprosy rehabilitation center in Bengaluru, the capital of the southern Indian state of Karnataka. The center, Sumanahalli, is under the Bangalore Archdiocese, aided by the state government, and managed by nuns and priests of different congregations.
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2 weeks ago | 
ncronline.org | Tawanda Karombo |Paul Jeffrey |Thomas Scaria |Michael Sean Winters
Help us raise $300,000 for NCR!We have raised $299,288 from 1,932 supporters. We are 99.7% of the way to our goal! Augustinian Sr. Ediltrudis Clemente Chinchay works with female farmers on sustainable farming method projects in Nampula, Mozambique. She and Augustinian Sr. Aurora Jacinto run the Biodiversity and Agricultural Program, founded in 2022 to support and educate female farmers. (Tawanda Karombo) Nampula, Mozambique — June 12, 2025 Augustinian Srs.
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2 weeks ago | 
ncronline.org | Tawanda Karombo |Paul Jeffrey |Thomas Scaria |Gina Christian
Parishes in the Diocese of Buffalo, New York, are set to pay a total of $80 million into the diocese's $150 million bankruptcy settlement, with the funds due to be paid into a trust by July 15.
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1 month 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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1 month 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.
