Category Archives: India

Femur Fracture: A Student’s Fight to Walk Again Tamil Nadu, India

Funding request: $2,020.07 CAD Critical Need: CN-ITK0426 Annai Mukilan is a young student with bright dreams and a deep sense of responsibility toward his family. Pursuing his studies in engineering, he balances academics with helping at home, quietly working toward a future where he can uplift those he loves. One ordinary day, while carrying out […]

A Mother’s Pain and a Family’s Struggle to Stay Strong Mangalagiri, India

Funding request: $1,450.79 CAD Critical Need: CN-IMM0326 Kalaiyarasi is a loving mother who has always placed her children’s needs above her own. She works hard to support her family, doing daily-wage labor whenever her health allows, and caring deeply for her children’s education and future. Her home, though simple, is filled with determination and hope […]

Build a civilization of love this Lent

inspiring high school students

In his Lenten message this year, Pope Leo invited Catholics worldwide to use this period of Lent to listen, fast and come together as a community in Christ. Pope Leo says, “Dear friends, let us ask for the grace of a Lent that leads us to greater attentiveness to God and to the least among us. Let […]

The compassion of the Samaritan: loving by bearing another’s pain

Yesudas with his fathe

Founded by Pope John Paul II in 1992, the World Day of the Sick is a day called to prayer, spiritual closeness, and reflection for the entire Church and for civil society, who are all called to recognize the face of Christ in our sick and vulnerable brothers and sisters. This year’s theme – The […]

Goats and grit bring Ulasita’s nursing dreams to life

When hope feels out of reach, sometimes it arrives on four small hooves. For Bijayanti’s family, that moment of hope changed everything. Bijayanti is a determined mother of three who will stop at nothing to see her daughter Ulasita’s nursing dreams come true. When a gift of goats arrived through Chalice’s gift catalogue, Bijayanti saw more than just animals; […]

Journey with us again this Lent

After the great feedback following last year’s Lent and Advent Companions, we have prepared another booklet for 2026 to enrich your daily prayer and practice. Our Lent Companion: Waiting, Walking, Rising is a small booklet of short but profound daily reflections that supporters can pray with as they walk from Ash Wednesday to Easter Sunday. […]

25 and Rising

24andrising chalice

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