By Devin Watkins Rome, Sept 29, 2021: Have you ever read 50 books in your native tongue and then written a one-page summary of each of them? Now imagine doing the same in a language which is not your own. That impressive feat is exactly what Alexander Vörös did recentlyContinue Reading
Vatican City, Sep 29, 2021: Pope Francis has highlighted “very painful errors” committed in the past as he marked the 200th anniversary of Mexico’s independence. In a letter addressed to Archbishop Rogelio Cabrera López, president of the Episcopal Conference of Mexico, the pope said he hoped that the anniversary wouldContinue Reading
Milan, Sept. 29, 2021: Pope Francis sent a video message to some 400 young people from 197 countries participating in a three-day Youth4Climate meet taking place in Milan, northern Italy. Technical and political solutions to humanity’s crises, such as climate change and the environment, are not enough unless there isContinue Reading
By Sami Ahmad Patna, Sept. 29, 2021: Young Sunaina Kumari has stopped going to school since September 22 as she lost her books during an anti-encroachment drive launched by the authorities in Patna, capital of Bihar state in eastern India. Her books were taken away by the police vehicle. HerContinue Reading
Matters India reporter Siliguri, Sept. 28, 2021: A leading Nepali-language folk singer on September 29 enthralled a group of multi-ethnic, multi linguistic and pluricultural students in Siliguri, West Bengal, with her songs and cultural inputs. Navneet Aditya Waiba was a special guest performer at 7th annual cultural festival Hay FeverContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Bhubaneswar, Sept. 29, 2021: A tribal environmental activist from Odisha is one of the participants of the ‘Youth4Climate,’ the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in Milan, Italy. Archana Soreng is one of the seven members of the UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres’ youth advisory group onContinue Reading
By George Plathottam Manila, Sept 28, 2021: People who wanted to go after the blood of Bishop Joseph Kallarangatt of Palai have made a heady cocktail of issues such as fanning communal disharmony, pandering to rightwing politics of the BJP and Sangh Parivar, interreligious marriages, conversions, peaceful co-existence of peopleContinue Reading
By Pascoal Carvalho Mumbai, Sept. 28, 2021: Excerpt of the presentation by Mumbai-based Doctor Pascoal Carvalho at the general assembly of the Pontifical Academy for Life in Rome on September 27 on “Public Health in Global Perspective – Pandemic, Bioethics, Future.” The Covid-19 Pandemic has been the greatest leveler inContinue Reading
Rome, Sept 28, 2014: The Synod of the Armenian Catholic Church has elected Monsignor Raphael François Minassian as its 21st Catholicos-Patriarch. Pope Francis convened the synod September 22-23 in Rome. The Armenian Catholic Patriarchate of the See of Cilicia is the supreme authority of the Armenian Catholic Church, the sixthContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Jaipur: A seminar on “Responsible citizenship of India” stressed the need to safeguard the country’s Constitution, which the participants noted was the result of a long struggle for freedom. “It is the Constitution that made us citizens breaking the unjust bonds of slavery and being ruledContinue Reading
