Are you willing to change a Dalit child's destiny? Arunthathiyar Dalit, also known as "untouchables" are the most oppressed among the Dalits of India. They live on the fringe of society in miserable conditions. The [...]

Are you willing to offer a gift and provide a safe home for a family? As Franciscans, we live a life in service to those who have the least, our sisters and brothers who live [...]

­­­On March 24, government officials in India implemented a national lockdown to mitigate the spread of the COVID-19 virus. With little more than four hours to make arrangements, the country’s 1.3 billion people were banned [...]

        This unprecedented global pandemic has affected the lives of so many people around the world, including the poor in the Philippines. Since mid-March, the island of Luzon in the northern Philippines [...]

          “Help us we have no food!” So read the makeshift sign hanging from a post outside a tent city for Philippine earthquake victims on the island of Mindanao. As moving as that [...]

The Sadness of this War You and I have had warmth and safe shelter this winter. But the refugees of the lengthy civil war in Syria are struggling to survive. Today, the winter temperatures in Syria are [...]