By Jose Kavi New Delhi: Every third Jesuit who succumbed to Covid-19 in the world since June 2020 was Indian, according to a list circulated by Father Arturo Sosa, superior general of the Society of Jesus. The list, sent with a letter to all heads of 83 provinces, six independentContinue Reading
Hong Kong: Hong Kong’s pro-democracy tabloid Apple Daily said it will print its last edition on June 24, after a tumultuous year in which it was raided by police and its tycoon owner and other staff were arrested under a new national security law. The end of the popular 26-year-oldContinue Reading
New Delhi: A parliamentary panel on June 22 asked the Ministry of Women and Child Development to conduct a survey on the impact of the pandemic on anganwadi services and malnutrition levels among children. The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Education, Women, Children, Youth and Sports chaired by Rajya Sabha MPContinue Reading
New Delhi: Citing alleged incidents of mob lynchings at Haryana’s Mewat, UP’s Loni and some other places, Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind President Maulana Arshad Madani on June 20 said that cases of hate increase when elections are around. “People of a certain ideology started targeting unarmed Muslims on the basis of theirContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi: The women section of the Conference of Religious of India undertook a study after media reported about widespread exploitation of Catholic women religious in the Church. The reports in L’Osservatore Romano and Matters India in 2018 spoke of nuns in menial occupations with little recognitionContinue Reading
By Purushottam Nayak Kandhamal: Ashalota Nayak says her husband’s brave death in Odisha’s 2008 anti-Christian violence has inspired her to serve society. “My husband had no fear of death to witness Jesus as the radicals attacked him,” recalled the 46-year-old widow of Bikram Nayak while speaking to Matters India onContinue Reading
Kochi: The Kerala High Court has stayed the operation of two controversial orders passed by Lakshadweep’s new administrator Praful Khoda Patel. The first order demanded closure of dairy farms managed by the island’s administration. The second aimed at changing the diet for school children by removing chicken and other meatContinue Reading
By Ram Puniyani Mumbai: One will be amazed to compare the India of today with the same a decade ago. BJP’s getting majority in the Lok Sabha (2014) has changed the political, social and economic scenario in adverse direction. The rising prices, the free fall of economy with GDP atContinue Reading
Kochi: The pandemic has created a demand for portable crematoriums in Kerala with many churches relying on it as an alternative to burying those who succumbed to Covid-19. Covid victims’ families and relatives see portable crematoriums as a viable solution as the units can be used either inside the cemeteryContinue Reading
Dhaka: With no priest to minister and no faithful to pray, an Armenian church in Bangladesh has one last parishioner: a Hindu caretaker doing his “sacred duty” to preserve a relic of the city’s former commercial elite. Shankar Ghosh makes the sign of the cross before opening the entrance ofContinue Reading
