‘Medical’ nuns move into India’s villages

A group of nuns, who have been trained to work in big hospitals, say they have found even more fulfillment serving poor Hindu villagers. (Francis Maria Britto, ucanews.com)

Burma: Light and hope amid brutality

Women religious … represent one of the many bright spots of the Catholic presence in Burma. But all too often repression at the hands of a brutal dictatorship obscures these rays of light and hope. (National Catholic Reporter)

Bangladeshis embracing NFP

More than 80 percent of people in Dhaka now support the Church’s Natural Family Planning method, says a Catholic nun who has been promoting it in Bangladesh since 1976. (Sumon Corraya, ucanews.com)

Raped Kandamal nun ‘a witness to Light and Truth’

Sister Meena, the religious sister beaten and raped during the bloody anti-Christian pogrom that erupted in Orissa during the summer of 2008, “is the symbol of our struggle, the witness of the Light and Truth.” the Bishop of Rourkela tells AsiaNews. Mgr. John Barwa dioceses is in the eastern state of Orissa,: he is also the victim’s uncle and has accompanied and supported her during the trial of the Hindu extremists raped her. (Asia News)

Women religious partner up against human trafficking

Human Trafficking is a modern form of slavery which is intrinsically linked to migration. Combating trafficking- in-persons is the one of the most pressing challenges facing the international community today. (Sr Sahaya FMM, Mangalorean.com)

Asian women face marriage balancing act

Toward the end of the 20th century, after the UN’s 1995 World Conference on Women and Decade for Women, women the world over were becoming aware of their rights. (Virginia Saldanha, ucanews.com)

Liberating nuns of India

It was once a place where pious and obedient nuns came to escape the world, vowing that their silence would speak beyond any words they could utter. (Paul Wilkes, National Catholic Reporter)

Salesians recharged after Italy renewal program

Indian Salesian nuns who spent a month in Italy renewing their charism say the experience was “soul-stirring”. (C. M. Paul, ucanews.com)

Faithful Companions of Jesus Province of Asia-Australia

The Faithful Companions of Jesus in Asia-Australia is an international Society of Roman Catholic Sisters in the Ignatian tradition.

Our Lady of the Philippines of the Cistercian Order

The Abbey of the Philippines is a monastery of the Cistercian Order that is located on the island of Guimaras, separated from the large city of Iloilo on Panay island, by a strait of the Sulu Sea.

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