New Delhi: A government panel studying Covid-19 vaccine side effects has confirmed the first death due to anaphylaxis following vaccination. The causality assessment of 31 reported Serious Adverse Events Following Immunization (AEFI) cases following Covid-19 vaccination was carried out by the panel. According to a report by the National AEFIContinue Reading
For a lay person the visual of a person getting arrested or being escorted to court, includes him being restrained by handcuffs. That is how arrests were and are portrayed in movies and pop culture for decades. However, the use of handcuffs, while once a common practice, has now beenContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Gumla: The Catholic Church in India on June 15 lost the fourth bishop to Covid-19. Bishop Paul Alois Lakra of Gumla in Jharkhand died at 1.30 am at Orchid Hospital Ranchi, capital of the eastern Indian state, where he was undergoing Covid-19 treatment. He was 65.Continue Reading
By Nirmala Carvalho Mumbai: Vaccines are working well against the Indian (delta) variant of the SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, according to a study on healthcare staff working at the Christian Medical College in Tamil Nadu’s Vellore town. By April 30, at the height of the second wave ofContinue Reading
New Delhi: Journalists and cartoonists are being targeted in India, contrary to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s global stance on free speech and fostering democratic values in cyberspace, the Editors Guild of India said June 14. The government itself heaps pressure on these professionals if and when their views are criticalContinue Reading
By Lissy Maruthanakuzhy Panaji: It was during lockdown last year I began to look at some YouTube presentations and got fascinated by some of the bloggers. I noticed that many individuals, students and families had turned to or had intensified the use of this medium as an income generating socialContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi: A Dalit Christian movement has urged India;’s new Apostolic Nuncio Archbishop Leopoldo Girelli to take steps to appoint bishops from their community in vacant dioceses in Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry. Such a move would “restore confidence in Dalit Catholics” and “prevent their imminent uprising inContinue Reading
An Indian man from the northeastern state of Mizoram, who is believed to have headed the “world’s largest family”, has died, officials said. Ziona Chana, 76, who headed a Christian sect that allowed polygamy for men, has left behind 38 wives and 89 children. The sect, called Chana Pawl, wasContinue Reading
The issue of ”Love Jihad” has cropped up again in Kerala after reports that the Centre has denied permission to return to four women, who had gone from the state to Afghanistan along with their husbands and children to live in the “Islamic Caliphate” promised by terror organisation IS. FourContinue Reading
By Ladislaus Louis D’Souza Mumbai: “Jesus longs for us to move beyond the idea of sacrifice—what we feel obligated to give up in order to be perceived as practicing Christians. He would much rather have our hearts involved in every act of mercy on our part, our lives entangled withContinue Reading
