Eight days before Christmas last year, Senseful Dkhar, a 55-year-old schoolteacher, led her fellow Catholics in prayer at a small village church in the northeastern corner of India, where the terrain ...

For centuries, the Indigenous Khasi people in Bangladesh have been conserving natural forests to sustain their livelihoods. Changing weather is challenging their traditional betel leaf agroforestry, ...

However, for administrative convenience, particularly in the categorisation of the State’s reservation policy, the Jaintia are hyphenated with the Khasi under the term “Khasi-Jaintia.” While this may ...

MEGHALAYA, India (RNS) — In this area’s matrilineal culture, women have taken on new responsibilities in Catholic churches in the region, acting as catechists, leading parish councils and shaping ...