Taizé brothers have lived in Bangladesh since 1974 in different parts of the country. Recently, they moved to a village site in Thanarbaid, in the Forest of Modhupur. A brother recently visited them and here tells of his experience.With another brother, we took part in a Church of Bangladesh St Andrew’s Day pilgrimage to Panihata in the north on the border with India. We went with a group from (...)
20 December 2021
Taizé brothers have lived in Bangladesh since 1974. After some years in Chittagong, they moved to the capital, Dhaka. From 1987, their home was been in Mymensingh, but in Ocober 2021, they moved to Thanarbaid, a small village in the Modhupur National Forest.From the beginning, the brothers focused on young people. They set up small schools for the poor, found ways to support students in their (...)
23 August 2021
One of the brothers writes: "The mid day meal today was festive, although the menu was simple. There were at least 150 of us who sat down together! Thankfully our house is surrounded by a large garden, close to the Bramaputra River which flows through the town. Among our guests, we had over 50 children and young people with a mental disablement whom we know well, accompanied by young volunteers who share their daily life. Most of these children and young disabled people were abandoned at (...)
10 January 2012
The slum near the station What did you do today? Aleksandra and Wendy work with the L’Arche Community. Recently they spent a month in Bangladesh. Among other experiences, they discovered the club at the station run by the Taizé brothers living in Bangladesh. “This afternoon we went to visit the “Station Club”, in one of the poorest neighbourhoods of Mymensingh. We cannot wave a magic wand to (...)
12 December 2010
One of the Taizé brothers living in Bangladesh writes: One of the very beautiful things about Bangladesh it is how much people like to sing. Recently I experienced this once again - like a thousand times previously … In the different villages where I went recently to make visits with two companions, we sang a great deal; either in Bengali, or in the Garo language, or - with some more educated young people - in English. The aim of our journey was to visit some of the more isolated Christian (...)
22 March 2007
This summer, one of the brothers living in Bangladesh shared with the brothers in Taizé his experience of many years spent in the Muslim world.I have been living in the Islamic world for thirty years. Bangladesh is a Muslim country; it is the third Muslim country in the world. The first is Indonesia, the second is India and the third is Bangladesh although it is being overtaken by Pakistan for the number of Muslims: 130 million. Today, Bangladesh appears much more as a Muslim country than it (...)
22 September 2006
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