Sr. Mary Mitali of the Associates of Mary Queen of the Apostles, seated, talks to participants during a workshop offered by the Episcopal Commission for the Laity in Bangladesh (Courtesy of Mary Mitali)
Dhaka, Bangladesh Sr. Mary Mitali, a member of the Associates of Mary, Queen of the Apostles, has helped transform thousands of laypeople s lives in her six years providing training through her job as office secretary and trainer with the Episcopal Commission for the Laity.
Before attending training, there was a distance between laypeople and religious priests and nuns, but now, laypeople and religious work closely together, Mitali said. The commission also helps laypeople to be a witness of Christ in this Muslim-majority country, where Christians make up less than 1% of the population of 165 million.