She is a Loreto Sister who has transformed the lives of thousands of Kolkata children at a middle-class parochial school where the students have become advocates for social change.

Christianitiy is one of the ancient religious traditions of India, and scholars are searching for manuscript evidence to document its early roots there.

"Our job is to take an illiterate woman and make her into an engineer in six months," says social activist Bunker Roy, founder of the Barefoot College. Students come from villages across India and a dozen other countries.

The ancient Hindu practice of kirtan is a call-and-response form of meditation that is gaining popularity here in the U.S.

The work of Mother Teresa’s worldwide missionary order continues, and so does the work of another missionary nun in Calcutta, who ministers to the poor in a different way.