It’s a joy to be a young Catholic nun in India
2015-04-28
It is thrilling to be young and religious in a multi-cultural, multi-religious and multi-ethnic IndiaContinue Reading
Mizo missionaries to stay back in quake-hit Nepal
2015-04-28
Nepal has more than 50 Mizo families working as missionariesContinue Reading
India turns grey steadily
2015-04-28
The senior citizen population is now around 11 percent nowContinue Reading
Cardinal Alencherry prays at reception for atomic bomb survivors
2015-04-28
They survived the atomic bombings in Hiroshima and NagasakiContinue Reading
India cancels registration of 9,000 NGOs
2015-04-28
The move came days after the home ministry published the last of overseas aid agencies that are barred from funding Indian organizationsContinue Reading
Indian Salesian appointed dean in Rome university
2015-04-28
Fr Jesu Pudumai Doss from India has been appointed dean of the Faculty of Canon Law at the Salesian Pontifical University (UPS), Rome, by Salesian Rector Major Fr Ángel Fernández Artime, who is also the university chancellor. Fr Doss has been teaching in the same university since 2002. Beginning May, he wasContinue Reading
New York’s first Indian-American woman judge appointed
2015-04-28
Chennai-born Raja Rajeswari has been sworn-in as a criminal court judge in New York by Mayor Bill de Blasio, becoming the first India-born woman to be appointed a judge in New York City. Rajeswari, 43, who had migrated to the U.S. from Chennai as a teenager, previously worked with theContinue Reading
Girls break ‘silence’ to fight taboos around menstruation
2015-04-28
Mumbai — When she first got her period, 20-year-old Rahenaz Sayed would often be ostracized in her own home. “My aunt would not allow me to sit on the bed; I had to wash my comb, even my hair scrunchie after my period. My family told me that I couldn’tContinue Reading
I million children severely affected in Nepal: UNICEF
2015-04-27
UNICEF relief workers are watching for waterborne and infectious diseasesContinue Reading