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Photo of the Day: Habits in Darjeeling

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Up a narrow winding road in Darjeeling’s tea covered hillsides, lies a home for a group of sisters of Missionaries of Charity live and work. Here they tend to the sick and injured in India’s Northeastern state of West Bengal. A nearby train drops…

A month with the Salesians in India

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(Previously published article) Our escort, Father James, stops the car. A tribal man with a machete in his hand rushes the car, his face pressed at our window, screaming in his native Khasi language. There is a lump in my…