Outside the camps: Helping the Roma in Rome
The Roma (gypsies) are a group of people who are historically Italy’s most marginalized, hated, victimized and poor. Sant’Egidio is a lay organization that battles negative public sentiment to provide these people with the social services they desperately need. The services are not granted to them in the camps they are forced to live in by the government, which in turn has spurred ethic and religious conflicts within camp boundaries.
My application to seminary school
After an eye-opening tour of Pontifical North American College, a seminarian school in Rome, Neha Prakash decided to join the priesthood —in whatever capacity they may take her.
A home among the gypsies
Neha Prakash recounts how her preconceived notions of gypsies were completely overturned once she entered a gypsy camp and was welcomed with open arms.
A worshipper’s secret
Religious followers of visit St. John the Baptist Church in midtown Manhattan to share their secrets, hopes and prayers with the beloved saint, Padre Pio. Many find the ritual act of kissing the relics and speaking to the saint their way of asking for his healing intercession.
A community reborn: Three generations in Brooklyn
The Catholic Holy Ghost Church has been in Williamsburg for 99 years. It has become home to many generations of Ukrainians.
