From Trauma to Purpose

From Trauma to Purpose

Growing up without a father and having a mother who was always working and not caring for her sons, Matteo,* Juan, and Antonio began spending time on the streets with bad company. The three boys kept getting into trouble until a neighbor intervened. The neighbor asked...
Compassion for Outcast Lepers

Compassion for Outcast Lepers

What goes through your mind when you think of leprosy? Deformed feet and fingers? A dreaded disease? Or maybe you think of Jesus compassionately telling a leper, “Be thou clean.” Today in South Asia lepers still exist and are outcasts of society just as they were in...
A Bleak Future Changed to Hope

A Bleak Future Changed to Hope

Being a widow in South Asia is not easy. Mira* found herself in a desperate situation after her husband died of malaria. Her three children were grown and married, and she was alone to navigate the many challenges. When a husband dies in South Asia, the widow’s life...