Unicef suggests ‘Nutrition Mission’ in Odisha
2016-08-30
Bhubanswar: The exceptionally high malnutrition deaths of 18 children at Nagada in Sukinda valley of Jajpur district exposed the glaring lapses in the state’s initiatives to check undernourishment deaths. Though Odisha’s progress in improving nutrition outcomes for children under two years of age has been good, Unicef feels Odisha needsContinue Reading
Watchdog calls out India for failing to protect journalists
2016-08-30
The Committee to Protect Journalists says that only one suspect has been prosecuted in a reporter’s death in 10 years.Continue Reading
Mother Teresa’s first training center all set to celebrate canonization
2016-08-30
Patna: With Mother Teresa set to be canonized a saint by Pope Francis on September 4, celebrations are being planned by the Catholic church in Bihar, especially in Patna, where she stayed for a few months in 1948 for a nursing training programme before commencing her work with the poorContinue Reading
Enterprising Indians and Mother Teresa
2016-08-30
Since Mamata Banerjee says she will not attend Mother Teresa’s September 4 canonisation in Rome as part of India’s official delegation but as a guest of the Missionaries of Charity and will sit with them, presumably she will also dress like them. Actually, West Bengal’s chief minister is no strangerContinue Reading
Kerala church to ban lavish weddings, feasts
2016-08-30
More than 800 tons of gold are bought for weddings in Kerala every yearContinue Reading
‘I was sure that it was Mother Teresa who healed me
2016-08-30
Rimini: The Brazilian man who received the miracle allowing for Mother Teresa’s canonization has shared his story, saying he and his wife were ordinary believers who received an extraordinary sign of God’s mercy. “From the beginning, the diagnoses weren’t good and they seemed only worse. (But) from that moment, insideContinue Reading
Thousands flock to Marian shrine in Bengaluru
2016-08-30
Devotion must translate into acts of mercy: Archbishop MorasContinue Reading
Mother Teresa’s letter to a young bride
2016-08-30
When the author and his wife invited the saint to their wedding, they couldn’t have expected this wonderful gift Continue Reading
Saint of darkness: Path to canonizing Teresa
2016-08-30
With the world filled with so much darkness, St. Mother Teresa of Kolkata will surely be continually absent from heavenContinue Reading