Father Francois Laborde, a priest of the Roman Catholic archdiocese of Calcutta who spent over five decades building schools for the poorest and working for the physically challenged in Bengal, passed ...
French ambassador Alexandre Ziegler’s day-long tour culminated in Andul, Howrah. And the reason for the nearly 41 km drive? To bestow France’s highest civilian award, Ordre national de la Legion ...
When Father François Laborde died at the age of 93 in India's Kolkata's city on Christmas Day, many close to him recalled his often-repeated words that the Indian poor evangelized him to be a better ...