Lent arrives quietly—ashes on foreheads, habits interrupted, the world slowing down just enough to notice. My first Ash Wednesday as an adult, I was living in Chennai, riding the local train to college after an early service. I had forgotten about the smudge until I caught my reflection in the window. A man across from me was staring—not hostile, just aware. I almost wiped it off. I did not. I am still not entirely sure why. Maybe I wanted to be the kind of person who did not wipe it off.
Sister Bernadette Ja Hkawn was a government school teacher for ten years in Myanmar. During one year of discernment before she joined the convent, she prayed and asked for signs from God to make sure of His call. But she got nothing external, except something internal.
As the 40th anniversary of the Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) in 2020, 40,000 trees will be planted in Cambodia, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Thailand to strengthen their social and ecological systems.
Sister Ann Rose Nu Tawng, who was a victim of war and a migrant in Kachin State in the northern part of Myanmar, becomes a courageous and generous nun.
St Joseph Tailoring Institute, West Godavari District, Andhra Pradesh, India was formed as part of the Church's mission to assist people in reestablishing their economies through employment and self-sufficiency.
The Pentecost Sunday on June 5 was a busy day for a Filipina Catholic lay missionary, who taught catechism to a dozen of children ages 8-12 in the southern Philippines inside the parish’s kitchen.
International Maritime Organization (IMO) reported that only 2% of 1.6 million seafarers of the world are women. This shows that there is a great gender gap in the maritime world.
A 19-year-old, Jacinta Siang Lawng Tial serves the Church as a volunteer at the office of Radio Veritas Asia (RVA) Falam Chin Service in the diocese of Hakha, Chin State, Myanmar.
Father Martin Abad Santos, a Filipino, who was a medical doctor before he entered the Society of Jesus, has been a missionary for the last 20 years in East Timor.
Sister Prema Chowallur, a member of Sisters of the Cross of Chavanod (SCC), initiates to help the LGBTQ (an umbrella term for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer) community in Assam, a state in Northeastern India.
For decades, groups of Sri Lankan Tamils have come to Tamil Nadu, south India fleeing war, hostilities, and political tensions on the island nation. The new refugees from Sri Lanka are driven by hunger, not war.
