Uttom S. Rozario

Stephan Uttom Rozario

Stephan Uttom Rozario is a journalist and photographer based in Dhaka, Bangladesh, covering human rights, minorities, and other contemporary issues. He also covers stories related to the Catholic Church.

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Our Lady of the Missions Sr. Pronoti Costa and Sr. Shongita Gomes, proctoring at an examination hall at St. Martha's High School at Sreemangal, Moulvibazar District, in Bangladesh. The congregation built the school and a hostel for girls of the Khasi ethnic group and for girls of workers from the area's tea gardens. (Stephan Uttom Rozario)

Sisters' education of ethnic group supports ongoing work to protect land rights

The schools and work of Our Lady of the Missions sisters have educated many members of the Khasi ethnic group in Bangladesh. Several are now established in society and work to protect the land rights of their community.

Nun dressed in white stands near a poster that says, "Believe in yourself and you will succeed."

Q&A with Sr. Lipy Gloria Rozario, a psychologist providing healing services to Bangladeshi people

Dr. Sr. Lipy Gloria Rozario, a sister of the Our Lady of Sorrows, is a counseling psychologist, founder and director of the Healing Heart Counseling Unit, providing services since 2010 in Muslim-majority Bangladesh. 

Our Lady of Sorrows Sr. Shibly Carmel Purification talks to Global Sisters Report July 3 at Elizabetta House in the Rajsahi Diocese in Bangladesh. (Uttom S. Rozario)

Q&A with Sr. Shibly Carmel Purification, spreading God's word through poetry

Sr. Shibly Carmel Purification, who has been writing poems and articles since school, reflects on her spiritual life through poetry alongside her work as a Sister of Our Lady of Sorrows in Bangladesh.

Sr. Ombretta Neri, of the Contemplative Missionary Movement of Charles De Foucauld, visits St. Mary's Infant School ‍in the Rupsha area of Bangladesh and talks to the students. (Stephan Uttom Rozario)

'Blue Sisters' foster a vital role for education in Bangladeshi slums

The Contemplative Missionary Movement of Charles De Foucauld, known as "Blue Sisters," started a school in 1983 to serve nursery-aged children in the slums of Bangladesh's Rupsha area. Their work has made a difference.

Two students pose for a photo on the grounds of the S.F.X. Greenherald International School in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The school is the first English-language school in Bangladesh after the country's independence in 1971. (Uttom S. Rozario)

Q & A with Sr. Virginia Asha Gomes, head of an international school in Bangladesh

Sr. Virginia Asha Gomes, 76, has run the S.F.X. Greenherald International School in Dhaka, Bangladesh, since 2005.

Sr. Roberta Pignone examines a patient in her chamber at Damien Hospital in Khulna, Bangladesh. (Uttom S. Rozario)

Q & A with Sr. Roberta Pignone, working for leprosy and tuberculosis patients in Bangladesh

After earning her medical degree, Italian Sr. Roberta Pignone joined the Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate. For about 12 years, Pignone has been working for the recovery of patients as the director of Damien Hospital.

Sister Falguni, a member of the Associates of Mary Queen of Apostles and a student at Kumudini Nursing College in Mirzapur, Bangladesh, attends to a patient. (Uttom S. Rozario)

Though a tiny religious minority, Bangladesh's nuns chart new path for nursing

After seeing the work of the nuns at the Catholic Church's 80 health care facilities across Bangladesh, many girls from remote areas now show interest in becoming nurses, which was unimaginable 20 years ago.