Thomas Scaria

Thomas Scaria

Thomas Scaria is a senior journalist based in India who has worked in Sri Lanka until recently in an intergovernmental organization. He has written for the Union of Catholic Asian News since 1991 and received its 2000 Best Reporter award. He also writes for Matters India, a news portal that focuses on religious and social issues and collaborates with Global Sisters Report.

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Thomas Scaria es un periodista senior radicado en India que ha que ha escrito para la Unión de Noticias Católicas Asiáticas desde 1991 y que ha trabajado recientemente en Sri Lanka en una organización intergubernamental. En 2000 recibió un premio como el Mejor Reportero de ese año. Scaria colabora con Global Sisters Report y también escribe para Matters India, un portal de noticias que se centra en cuestiones religiosas y sociales. 

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After escaping Afghanistan, Sr. Theresa Crasta, a Maria Bambina nun, on Sept. 9 went to visit her family home at Bela, a village in Kerala on the border of Karnataka state in southwestern India.

Q&A with Sr. Theresa Crasta, who worked with special needs children before evacuating Kabul

Sr. Theresa Crasta of the Sisters of Maria Bambina shares her experiences of working with special needs children in Afghanistan as well as her rescue from the war-stricken country after the Taliban captured Kabul.

The Bethany Lay Associates visit a destitute home in Mumbai in 2020, before the onslaught of COVID-19. (Courtesy of the Bethany Sisters)

In congregation's 100th year, Bethany Sisters' lay associates outnumber the nuns

The Congregation of the Sisters of the Little Flower of Bethany launched the Bethany Lay Associates in 2009 in order to encourage lay collaboration. As of this year, the congregation's centennial, the lay associates now outnumber the sisters.

Apostolic Carmel nuns complete 150 years as pioneers of women's education in India

Founded in India in 1870, the Apostolic Carmel sisters started a century and a half of their devotion to educate girls in India at a time when very few girls were provided any formal education.

The Good Shepherd institutions at Nayakakanda, on the outskirts of the Sri Lankan capital of Colombo (Thomas Scaria)

Good Shepherd sisters skip 150th jubilee to aid Sri Lanka blast victims

The sisters had planned a variety of programs for their sesquicentennial in May. But after Sri Lanka's Easter bombings, the congregation limited the celebrations, saving the money for scholarships for affected children.

Nuns on healing mission in Sri Lanka help Easter Sunday bombing victims regain normalcy

Q & A with Sr. Samantha Kuruppuarachchi, who lost family members in Sri Lanka's Easter bombings