En Bangladés aún hay fábricas de ropa que explotan a niños
(Giammarco Sicuro. Alfa & Omega).
Once años después del derrumbe del complejo Rana Plaza, que dejó 1.100 muertos, Daca aún es un infierno para los trabajadores textiles a pesar de que las empresas occidentales solo compran a fabricantes cumplidores
Bangladesh:Jesuits open therir first training centre
(ACN UK).
The Society of Jesus has set up its first-ever novitiate in Bangladesh, where less than half a percent of the population is Christian – with help from an international Catholic charity.
(Global Sisters Report. Sumon Corraya).
After the severe cyclonic storm Remal made landfall in Bangladesh, May 26-27, more than a dozen people died, with the heavy rain and strong winds affecting about 3.7 million. During this natural disaster — as well as another severe storm that struck in April — the Congregation of Our Lady of the Missions Sisters arranged shelter and provided food in their school for people in the southern Bangladeshi village of Bagerhat, one of the areas most prone to such calamities. “For three days, my wife and I, along with our two children, took shelter at St. Joseph’s Primary School in Basabari, Bagerhat. The nuns and priests welcomed us warmly,” said Raton Banerjee, a 48-year-old cobbler and member of Our Lady of Fatima Church, Bagerhat. Like Banerjee, more than 400 Catholics took shelter in the nuns’ school in Bagerhat due to flash floods that affected their homes. The monthly income for people in this area is typically less than $100 USD.
(Crux. Nirmala Carvalho).
MUMBAI, India – A leading Catholic aid agency says the Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh are “forgotten.” Caritas Internationalis General-Secretary Alistair Dutton recently visited the population last week, and thanked the Bangladesh government for supporting the Rohingya for so many years. Most of the Rohingya at the Bangladesh camps have arrived from Myanmar since August 2017, when the military began conducting clearance operations after a series of rebel attacks in Myanmar’s Rakhine state. The Rohingya are Muslims and have long faced discrimination in Buddhist-majority Myanmar, including being denied citizenship since 1982. The military coup in Myanmar in February 2021 further heightened their vulnerability. The population density of the camps is staggering: About 103,600 per square mile, more than 40 times the average population density in Bangladesh as a whole – and it is one of the most crowded countries on earth. Refugees live in side-by-side plastic huts, each just a little larger than 100 square feet, and some holding a dozen residents. “I am profoundly moved by the hospitality and enduring support that the Bangladesh government has shown for Rohingya refugees for the past seven years,” Dutton said.
(UCAnews reporter).
Top Christian organizations have expressed surprise and shock after Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina accused Christians of plotting to carve out a “Christian state” of their own by taking parts of Bangladesh and Myanmar.
“We, the Christians of Bangladesh, and their leaders — the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Bangladesh (CBCB) and the United Forum of Churches (UFCB) are surprised and worried,” said a joint statement issued on May 26.
In today’s globalized and secularized world, the idea of a ‘Christian state’ is absurd, said the statement signed by Archbishop Bejoy N. D’Cruze of Dhaka, the president of CBCB and UFCB.
(Global Sisters Report).
Mohammad Rabbi Ali, 25, lives with his family in the Bihari Refugee Camp in the Mohammadpur area of the capital Dhaka, Bangladesh. Eight members of their family live in a room of 8 feet by 10 feet. His dream is to one day work in Bangladesh Civil Service and live happily with his family. “Since I was about 16 years old, I have been supporting my expenses and part of my family’s expenses in addition to my studies, which is a great joy and satisfaction for me,” said Ali.
(Asia news. Sumon Corraya).
La polizia del Bangladesh ha arrestato un cristiano battista accusato di una serie di gravi crimini, che vanno dal traffico di organi alla falsificazione di certificati di morte e all’appropriazione indebita di donazioni. Milton Samadder, 36 anni, infermiere, nel 2014 ha aperto a Mirpur un centro chiamato “Child and Old Age Care”, un luogo dove persone con disabilità fisiche e mentali e senza dimora possono trovare riparo e assistenza sanitaria. In precedenza Samadder aveva fondato una società di servizi di case di cura chiamata Milton Home Care, un’esperienza che gli aveva aperto gli occhi sulla difficoltà che i poveri e i malati incontrano in Bangladesh.