Jump to navigation

  • National Catholic Reporter
  • EarthBeat
  • Global Sisters Report

Free Newsletters

Global Sisters Report
Menu
Menu
  • Menu
  • GSR in the Classroom
  • About GSR

Search form

  • Sections
    • Arts and Media
    • Columns
    • Environment
    • Migration
    • Ministry
    • News
    • Q&A
    • Religious Life
    • Social Justice
    • Spirituality
    • The Life
    • Trafficking
  • Publications
    • National Catholic Reporter
    • EarthBeat
    • Global Sisters Report

Nepal

Two months beyond the crisis, still a crisis: Relief work in Nepal

by Clare Nolan
Jul 28, 2015

Commentary - On April 25, 2015 the worst natural disaster to strike Nepal in over 80 years came in the form of the Gorkha earthquake named for the geographic district hit by the epicenter. Relief work continues. This report comes from written reports and email interviews with  Sr. Taskila Nicholas, a Sister of the Good Shepherd, who has been on the ground since day one, working in collaboration with government agencies, diverse NGOs and religious groups. Can one still call it a crisis when the situation has turned a time corner toward the chronic, even as the level of human ruin remains acute?

Nepal authorities try to block Missionaries of Charity delivering aid

by Anto Akkara, Catholic News Service
May 20, 2015

Members of the Missionaries of Charity had to spend more than two hours waiting at police headquarters for clearance before they could deliver food, blankets and other promised relief to earthquake victims in a remote mountainous area of Nepal. The group of six sisters, eight brothers and about six volunteers had asked for police accompaniment on their May 16 mission because, on an earlier trip, they had been accosted by looters while carrying aid to people trapped in the mountains overlooking Kathmandu Valley.

Looking for God under the rubble in Nepal

by Melanie Lidman
May 14, 2015

GSR Today - If the complete destruction of the earthquake tested people's faith in Nepal, you’d never know it from the faith-based organizations rushing to help.

 

Second Nepal quake highlights importance of emotional care

by Melanie Lidman
May 12, 2015

In less than three weeks after a massive earthquake killed more than 8,000 people in Nepal, a 7.3-magnitude quake struck May 11 near the Mt. Everest region, destroying infrastructure and buildings in a country that was just beginning to pick up the pieces. “It was just like the first one,” Sr. Taskila Nicholas, Good Shepherd Sister working in Kathmandu, told Global Sisters Report by phone.

Nepal

Two months beyond the crisis, still a crisis: Relief work in Nepal

by Clare Nolan
Jul 28, 2015

Commentary - On April 25, 2015 the worst natural disaster to strike Nepal in over 80 years came in the form of the Gorkha earthquake named for the geographic district hit by the epicenter. Relief work continues. This report comes from written reports and email interviews with  Sr. Taskila Nicholas, a Sister of the Good Shepherd, who has been on the ground since day one, working in collaboration with government agencies, diverse NGOs and religious groups. Can one still call it a crisis when the situation has turned a time corner toward the chronic, even as the level of human ruin remains acute?

Nepal authorities try to block Missionaries of Charity delivering aid

by Anto Akkara, Catholic News Service
May 20, 2015

Members of the Missionaries of Charity had to spend more than two hours waiting at police headquarters for clearance before they could deliver food, blankets and other promised relief to earthquake victims in a remote mountainous area of Nepal. The group of six sisters, eight brothers and about six volunteers had asked for police accompaniment on their May 16 mission because, on an earlier trip, they had been accosted by looters while carrying aid to people trapped in the mountains overlooking Kathmandu Valley.

Looking for God under the rubble in Nepal

by Melanie Lidman
May 14, 2015

GSR Today - If the complete destruction of the earthquake tested people's faith in Nepal, you’d never know it from the faith-based organizations rushing to help.

 

Second Nepal quake highlights importance of emotional care

by Melanie Lidman
May 12, 2015

In less than three weeks after a massive earthquake killed more than 8,000 people in Nepal, a 7.3-magnitude quake struck May 11 near the Mt. Everest region, destroying infrastructure and buildings in a country that was just beginning to pick up the pieces. “It was just like the first one,” Sr. Taskila Nicholas, Good Shepherd Sister working in Kathmandu, told Global Sisters Report by phone.

In Nepal, Catholics reach out to remote areas devastated by quake

by Melanie Lidman
May 6, 2015

Finding what does the most good

by Dan Stockman
May 4, 2015

Sister steps up efforts to send water filters to Nepal

by Brian Roewe
May 1, 2015

Sisters of Charity of Nazareth and other communities in Nepal shift to earthquake relief

by Jose Kavi
Apr 30, 2015
  • Arts and Media
  • Columns
  • Environment
  • Migration
  • Ministry
  • News
  • Q&A
  • Religious Life
  • Social Justice
  • Spirituality
  • The Life
  • Trafficking
  • About Us
    • About Global Sisters Report
    • Our Mission
    • Why Sisters?
  • More
    • Contact Us
    • Employment Opportunities
    • Advertise
  • Connect
    • Sign up for GSR emails
    • GSR in the Classroom
    • Community News
National Catholic Reporter publications: NCRonline.org | EarthBeat | GlobalSistersReport.org | Free Newsletters

Copyright © The National Catholic Reporter Publishing Company | 115 E. Armour Blvd., Kansas City, MO 64111 | 1-800-444-8910

  • Our Facebook Page
  • Follow us on Twitter
  • Follow us on Instagram