The Kerala nun condemned to poverty and virtual sequestration by the Church after accusing a bishop of rape eight years ago has found a helping hand from faraway Bengal. The room at the St Francis Mission Home in Kottayam, where the nun lives with two others. She led us to the batik designer,” the 50-year-old nun said at her convent in Kottayam, where The Telegraph met her on Saturday. Occasionally, after completing a stitching order, they go out accompanied by women civil police officers and buy fish from local shops. “When I told my father that I wished to be a nun after my tenth grade, he agreed,” the rape complainant said.

Source: The Telegraph January 19, 2026 01:35 UTC