Mumbai: When Shrushti Kulaye dreamed of a career in the civil services, it also meant a life out of her impoverished neighbourhood in the sprawling slums of Mankhurd. On Tuesday, the 25-year-old ...

Chandigarh: Once again, residents of a slum in Chandigarh will lose their houses as the administration carries out a major demolition drive to reclaim six acres of land in Industrial Area ...

Francis earned the nickname "the pope of the slums" for his deep commitment to the poor and marginalized. Throughout his ministry — both in Argentina and as pope — he regularly visited ...

Down a narrow street in Villa 31, the oldest of Buenos Aires's informal settlements, Father Ignacio "Nacho" Bagattini celebrates mass in a community center for homeless drug addicts. The legacy of ...

Puppeteers move cardboard animals in canoes at the Makoko Slum in Lagos Nigeria, Saturday, April 19, 2025, as part of "The Herds," a moving theatre performance that started its journey from the ...

Scottish visual artist Diaz tracks his journey out of “the Glasgow slums” in his rousing debut autobiography. The author was born Juan McKelvie in 1977. At a young age, he was separated from ...

The legacy of Pope Francis, who famously exhorted young Catholics to "shake things up" by taking the gospel to "favelas, slums and shantytowns," lives on in the ramshackle neighborhood of 40,000 ...