Thomas Scaria is a senior journalist based in India who has worked in Sri Lanka until recently in an intergovernmental organization. He has written for the Union of Catholic Asian News since 1991 and received its 2000 Best Reporter award. He also writes for Matters India, a news portal that focuses on religious and social issues and collaborates with Global Sisters Report.
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Thomas Scaria es un periodista senior radicado en India que ha que ha escrito para la Unión de Noticias Católicas Asiáticas desde 1991 y que ha trabajado recientemente en Sri Lanka en una organización intergubernamental. En 2000 recibió un premio como el Mejor Reportero de ese año. Scaria colabora con Global Sisters Report y también escribe para Matters India, un portal de noticias que se centra en cuestiones religiosas y sociales.
As violence continues in Manipur, India, sisters care for children in refugee camps while continuing their ministry of looking after orphaned and abandoned children in their Homes of Hope shelters.
The Poor Handmaids of Jesus Christ in Bengaluru, India, educate children who would otherwise be working with their nomadic parents in garbage segregation units, in waste picking or at construction sites.
As a dispute over how to celebrate the liturgy embroils India's Syro-Malabar Church — one of the Catholic Church's Eastern Catholic churches — sisters continue parish ministries and holding catechism classes.
Sisters in India run the Sree Jeevan Jyothi Vocational Junior College, where several students are victims of failed child marriages. At the junior college, they train as nurses, receive counseling and develop confidence.
Hundreds of women have found a fresh start in a shelter managed by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Tarbes in Bengaluru, Karnataka state, India. The nuns counsel residents, provide them therapy and offer room and board.
"We cannot be silent when the country is burning with divisive forces everywhere," Sr. Maria Nirmalini, head of the Conference of Religious India, said in a letter to more than 130,000 nuns, priests and brothers.
More than two years after bombs killed more than 300 people in Sri Lanka, Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith said the government's slow investigation delays justice for the victims and survivors. Army personnel now guard two Catholic churches attacked on Easter 2019, and some people remain fearful of going to church.
Churches in the Archdiocese of Colombo, Sri Lanka, resumed Sunday Masses on May 12, three weeks after a series of bomb blasts killed hundreds. Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith repeatedly reasserted that the church does not consider Muslims as enemies of Christians.
