{"id":5166,"date":"2025-12-18T20:07:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T20:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.maryknollsociety.org\/magazine\/?p=5166"},"modified":"2025-12-26T21:15:25","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T21:15:25","slug":"father-bob-on-a-bicycle-serving-disabled-children-in-bangladesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.maryknollsociety.org\/magazine\/father-bob-on-a-bicycle-serving-disabled-children-in-bangladesh\/","title":{"rendered":"Father Bob on a Bicycle: Serving Disabled Children in Bangladesh"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>By Stephan Uttom Rozario,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> CNA<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Father Robert T. McCahill, a Maryknoll missioner who works in health care for poor, disabled people in Bangladesh, marks 50 years of service in the country this December.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over his five decades in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maryknollmagazine.org\/2025\/10\/prosecutors-call-for-highest-punishment-for-former-pm-sheikh-hasina\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bangladesh<\/a>, Father McCahill has served in 13 administrative districts in the Muslim-majority nation, spending three years in each one serving the people there. He left Srinagar in Munshiganj district near Dhaka in late November after completing three years there, though he does not yet know where he will go next.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI think that just as Jesus was not tied to one place and asked to spread the word of God, I travel around and reach people of all religions with love and work,\u201d Father McCahill told CNA on Nov. 18.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Born in Iowa in 1937, Father McCahill later moved to Indiana due to his father\u2019s work. In 1964, he was ordained a priest and went to the Philippines that same year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u201cBrother Bob\u201d serves among Muslims<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1975, he and four other priests came to Bangladesh at the invitation of Archbishop T. A. Ganguly of Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. After learning Bengali for a year, his first place of work was in the northern district of Tangail, where he remained for nine years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Bangladesh, he is known as \u201cBob Bhai\u201d \u2014 Brother Bob. Father McCahill was given this name by a Muslim friend who thought Bangladeshi Muslims would have difficulty pronouncing his full name, and he is still known by this name in the villages where he serves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMy only son has been disabled since birth. He cannot walk or speak. I have seen many doctors but to no avail,\u201d said Abdul Mannan Khan, 45, a Muslim resident of Munshigonj district.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBob Bhai <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maryknollmagazine.org\/2023\/12\/a-rich-poverty-in-bangladesh\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">often comes to my house<\/a>, laughs and jokes with my son. Now we are getting treatment in the hospital through him. I don\u2019t need any money,\u201d Khan told CNA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His 15-year-old son Abu Mosa Khan is the only child in the family, and his parents care for him devotedly. But the family says that no one gets along with the disabled boy the way Father McCahill does.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cNot everything is possible with money alone. Many great things are possible with love, like Bob Bhai is doing,\u201d Khan said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.maryknollsociety.org\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/20251201-feature-father-robert-terence-mccahill04.webp\" alt=\"Abu Mosa Khan in his mother\u2019s arms at their home in Munshigonj district, Bangladesh, on Nov. 18, 2025. Through Maryknoll Father Robert McCahill\u2019s help, the family has access to free hospital treatment in Dhaka. (Stephan Uttom Rozario\/Bangladesh)\" class=\"wp-image-5168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dev.maryknollsociety.org\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/20251201-feature-father-robert-terence-mccahill04.webp 600w, https:\/\/dev.maryknollsociety.org\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/20251201-feature-father-robert-terence-mccahill04-300x225.webp 300w, https:\/\/dev.maryknollsociety.org\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/20251201-feature-father-robert-terence-mccahill04-400x300.webp 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Abu Mosa Khan in his mother\u2019s arms at their home in Munshigonj district, Bangladesh, on Nov. 18, 2025. Through Maryknoll Father Robert McCahill\u2019s help, the family has access to free hospital treatment in Dhaka. (Stephan Uttom Rozario\/Bangladesh)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Simple lifestyle in apostolic poverty<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Wherever he lives, Father McCahill rents a small room, unless someone gives him a free one. In Srinagar, authorities gave him a 5-by-8-foot space in a schoolroom, separated by tin walls. The dimly lit room contained a pile of clothes, a simple wooden bed, a tattered mosquito net, a basic electric light and a fan. It also had a kerosene stove for cooking, a few small utensils and a bicycle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The missioner rides a bicycle at least 12-15 miles every day to visit rural villages, see disabled children, and take them to different hospitals for treatment as needed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBob Bhai comes to our house early in the morning on his bicycle,\u201d said a villager named Farman, 83.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Farman\u2019s grandson Rakibul, 8, became disabled a year after birth and cannot walk or speak. His mother has remarried and lives elsewhere, and his father no longer cares for him, so Rakibul lives with his grandfather.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAfter undergoing treatment in many places, Rakibul is now getting treatment in Dhaka free of cost on Bob Bhai\u2019s advice, and now he is on the path to some improvement,\u201d Farman said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A passion for riding bicycles<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Since his youth, the missioner has had a great passion for bicycles. When he came to Bangladesh, where at the time roads were not well developed, he found he could get around best by bicycle. So he chose a bike as his vehicle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAmong other reasons, the main reason is simplicity, and bicycles are<a href=\"https:\/\/www.maryknollmagazine.org\/2019\/01\/father-bob-mccahill-poor-bangladesh\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> the vehicle of poor people.<\/a> At the same time, cycling also keeps the body healthy, so I ride bicycles,\u201d Father McCahill said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAlso, when I ride a bicycle, many people ask me various questions. I can easily answer them while standing,\u201d the cycling missionary said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Father McCahill finds peace in his life by serving people. \u201cI believe lov[ing] one another is the key to happiness,\u201d says the missioners, who adds that he will continue to serve as long as he can walk. He enjoys discovering one new area after another and meeting new people. He has not faced any major difficulty in the country, despite the fact that around <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thearda.com\/world-religion\/national-profiles?u=19c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">90% of the population is Muslim<\/a> and less than 1% is Christian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFirst, there\u2019s suspicion \u2014 expecting and getting it. By the second year, there are many people who trust you, and that builds during the year, a year of trust-building. By the third year, there is affection for me. And so I knew at that time, at the end of the third year, I could leave and do the same thing in another town,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He believes that a priest should not only celebrate Mass inside a church but also preach the word of Christ everywhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI celebrate Mass here myself every day,\u201d he said. \u201cI want to live like this, and when I die, I want to be buried in this country.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Featured image: <\/em><em>Abdul Mannan Khan and his disabled son Abu Mosa Khan meet with Maryknoll Father Robert McCahill at their home in Munshigonj district, Bangladesh, on Nov. 18, 2025. The priest visits villages daily to find disabled children and connect them with medical treatment. 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