The Delhi-based International Human Rights Council has picked Mgr Thomas Menamparampil, Archbishop Emeritus of Guwahati, in Assam (India) as its 2019 Ambassador for Peace.

The prelate welcomed the news of the prize with awe and selflessness. “I never worked for Continue reading →

He was a leader in the pro-democracy movement in Indonesia in 1998 that finally brought down the authoritarian Suharto regime. He left political activism and became priest. 

Father Stefanus Hendrianto, 45, was among the ranks of students involved in Continue reading →

Eighty-one-year-old Sister Gerard, who for four decades has counselled prisoners in the country’s death row, has been included in the yearly list of BBC’s most influential women from all over the globe. 

Sister Gerard is the first woman from Continue reading →

A 15-year-old girl from Cameroon is one of two winners of the 2019 International Children’s Peace Prize. Divina Maloum was rewarded for her efforts in promoting children’s rights by visiting school to warn students against joining armed groups, such as Continue reading →

Migrants arrive at Casa Betania Santa Martha weary from walking for days. The shelter is a waystation in Mexico’s southern Chiapas state, where migrants wait to take rides atop the occasional northbound freight train rumbling by.

They seek basic assistance Continue reading →