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As Qatar gets ready to host the 2022 World Cup, it is pushing back against allegations of worker exploitation. Media reports that just before the International Labour Organization (ILO) decides whether or not to investigate Qatar for abuses, the country has signed 36 worker protection agreements with countries that provideContinue Reading

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By Purushottam Nayak Bhubaneswar: The Church in India with its extensive network can resolve the problems facing laborers and migrant workers, an official of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI), has told a seminar. The Catholic Church will address distress internal labor migration through its links with dioceses,” FatherContinue Reading

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By George Ayalloor Madrid: Cardinal Angelo Amato, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, will beatify 60 martyrs in Spain, including two Vincentian priests who had worked in India’s Odisha state. Fathers José María Fernández Sánchez and Pedro Pascual García Martín were part of the first two groupsContinue Reading

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When Ganesh Devy, a former professor of English, embarked on a search for India’s languages, he expected to walk into a graveyard, littered with dead and dying mother tongues. Instead, he says, he walked into a “dense forest of voices”, a noisy Tower of Babel in one of the world’sContinue Reading