Bratislava: Slovakia’s health minister has announced Jthat only those who are fully vaccinated will be permitted to participate in events when Pope Francis visits in September. The pope will visit four cities in Slovakia on Sept. 12-15, after traveling to Budapest in neighboring Hungary to celebrate the closing Mass ofContinue Reading
Rome Newsroom: Cardinal Joseph Zen published a statement on July 21, saying that new restrictions on the celebration of Traditional Latin Masses are a “blow,” even if they were expected. “Many tendentious generalizations in the documents [of the motu proprio] have hurt the hearts of many good people more thanContinue Reading
Brussels: A hunger-strike by hundreds of migrants in Brussels is threatening to fracture Belgium’s government. Their protest — launched by migrants hoping to get formal residency after living in Belgium for years — began two months, and is straining their health. Six strikers have sewn their mouths shut. Five triedContinue Reading
New Delhi: Roughly two out of three Indians may have some protection from Covid-19, government experts on July 20 said, citing the latest sero survey findings that they described as a “ray of hope”, but added that a large part of the population is still vulnerable and future waves cannotContinue Reading
Yangon: Cardinal Charles Maung Bo of Myanmar’s Archdiocese of Yangon has called for united fight against the spread of the coronavirus disease in the already devastated Southeast Asian country. “Please, please stop all the conflicts,” appealed the cardinal in a message as the country marked Martyrs’ Day, a national holidayContinue Reading
The Covid-19 pandemic has caused excess deaths in India to cross more than four million, a new study has found. Excess deaths are a measure of how many more people are dying than would be expected compared to the previous few years. Although it is difficult to say how manyContinue Reading
New Delhi: In the first verdict on north-east Delhi riots, a court on July 20 acquitted a man of rioting and dacoity charges while noting that the prosecution “miserably failed” to prove its case. Freeing sole-accused Suresh alias Bhatura, Additional Sessions Judge Amitabh Rawat said the prosecution has not beenContinue Reading
New Delhi: Girls who had access to the free lunches provided at government schools, had children with a higher height-to-age ratio than those who did not, says a new study on inter-generational benefits of India’s midday meal scheme. Using nationally representative data on cohorts of mothers and their children spanningContinue Reading
New Delhi: Danish Siddiqui, India’s first Pulitzer Prize winner in feature photography who rose to the top of his profession while documenting conflict, carnages, and human suffering, was killed in a crossfire between Afghan forces and the Taliban on July 16. Siddiqui was reporting the war in Afghanistan for Reuters.Continue Reading
Chennai: Tamil Nadu health minister Ma Subramanian has said that preference in vaccination will be given to natives of pilgrimage towns of the state. He said that Tiruvannamalai, Nagore, Velnakanni, and Rameshwaram towns have been identified for this purpose. The state health minister was speaking after inaugurating a vaccination campContinue Reading
