Montfort Brother Varghese Theckanath is on a journey to make the voice of the voice-less heard in the main stream socie-ty. “Many interest-ing things happen among them, but only when a misfortune happens, their stories are reported,” bemoans Brother Theckanath, a grassroots activist promoting the rights of the urban poor. As a solution, the 67-year-old Brother has set up a sound and visual studio at Montfort Social Institute (MSI) at Ramanathapuram, Secunderabad, the twin city of Hyderabad. The institute, affiliated to the Earth Charter Initiative, is a resource and training centre for the promotion of Human Rights Edu-cation and Sustainable Development Education. “I want to train about 100 youth from the families of migrants, domestic workers, street dwellers so that they can express their achieve-ments and grievances first hand,” Brother Theckanath, who had served as the Central India provincial of the Montfort Brothers of St Gabriel for six years, told.
Spanish bishops speak out after leaks of their meeting with Leo XIV
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