One of the major international personalities who strives for the safeguarding of biodiversity and who is against monopolies of the planet’s resources, especially water, is surely the Indian activist, Vandana Shiva.

She was born in 1952 in Uttarakhand, India. Her Continue reading →

The journey of Fr. Bobby Dela Cruz from drug use to priesthood is a powerful testimony of God’s love. Today he is sharing God’s gift of redemption with drug surrenderers and persons deprived of liberty (PDLs).

As a high school Continue reading →

Virginia Pinares is a woman with a mission.  “I’m bringing a message from the forgotten rural women, from the most remote regions where the government has no presence. We must enter power and they have to see that we Continue reading →

A conference to seek concrete solutions to problems and, most of all, to get to know one another. A catholic nun livens up the proceedings.

Room has run out in the convent hall. People are talking loudly. We exchange greetings. Continue reading →

The Union of Superiors General of Catholic Religious Sisters launched the “Sowing Hope for the Planet” campaign two years ago. Sister Sheila Kinsey, its coordinator spoke to us about the project.

Sister Sheila, an American, has clear ideas. And she Continue reading →

This year marks the centenary of the birth of Focolare Movement founder Chiara Lubich. She is considered to be one of the most influential spiritual figures of the twentieth century. The Movement has moved beyond its origins in the Roman Continue reading →

He founded the Taizé Community, an ecumenical monastic community in Burgundy, France. He was killed during evening prayers in Taizé on August 16, 2005.  It was to young people that Brother Roger devoted his life, and in whom he Continue reading →

In spite of ill health and weakness Edel Quinn spent many years of her life working strenuously to help spread the Faith in Africa. She has been described as “one of the greatest Irish missionaries in the history of the Continue reading →

“To live in a hut in Egypt to share the life of the poorest: to eat what they eat and to live like them in a makeshift hut; in a nutshell, I shared their experience of radical poverty.”

Madeleine Cinquin, Continue reading →

An Italian lawyer and social activist, she volunteered to the service of the poor and sick for 33 years in Africa. Her life ended by the bullet of an unknown assassin.  She, who was known as Mother Teresa of Continue reading →