AsiaNew: Mumbai (AsiaNews) – Sabira was only seven years old when she ran away from home with her brother. It was 1991, and the two children were running away from a life of absolute poverty, hunger, a violent mother and the ghost of a dead alcoholic father. On the streets she got to know Sr. Seraphim, of the Sisters of Charity, who brought her to the Jesuit hostel Snehasadan in Mumbai, where street children are welcomed and cared for. It was here, along with her brother, that Sabira encountered the Virgin, “a woman everyone prayed to, but I did not understand why.” But many years later, as an adult and no longer in the hostel, she decided to convert to Catholicism and serve the sick with the “love and joy of Christ,” like Mother Teresa. Read more here.
