By Matters India Reporter New Delhi: A Catholic nun, who has exhausted all avenues of appeal against her dismissal from her congregation, says she will not leave her convent until an Indian court decides her petition. The Franciscan Clarist Congregation on June 13 ordered Sister Lucy Kalapura to vacate theContinue Reading
By Felix Anthony Itanagar: The youngest mountaineer from Arunachal Pradesh to scale Mount Everest now thanks a Catholic association for his achievement. “Had it not been for APCA [Arunachal Pradesh Catholic Association], my journey to Mount Everest would not have even started,” Abraham Tagit Sorang, a resident of Sepaha villageContinue Reading
New Delhi: As many as 719 doctors died due to Covid-19 during the second wave of the virus, says the Indian Medical Association (IMA). Most deaths — 111– occurred in the eastern Indian state of Bihar, IMA secretary general Jayesh Lele told reporters on June 12 in New Delhi. DelhiContinue Reading
New Delhi: Indicating that they have no intention of vacating the protest site anytime soon, farmers at the Singhu border have erected shelters — sheds with metal frames and bamboo huts — fitted with air-coolers or air-conditioners (ACs) to tackle Delhi’s searing summer. Even tractor trolleys, which have become aContinue Reading
Matters India Reporter Yangon: In the wake of recent attacks on four Churches and the on-coming of monsoon, 13 Catholic Bishops along with president of the Catholic Bishops Conference of Myanmar Cardinal Charles Bo of Yangon appealed for peace and reconciliation on humanitarian grounds saying, “We are not politicians, weContinue Reading
Sujata Jena India continues to grapple with the second wave of COVID-19: hospitals are running out of beds, patients are running out of oxygen and people are running out of hope. As of June 11, within the previous 24 hours India had reported 94,052 daily new COVID-19 cases with 6,148Continue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kochi: A weekly managed by the Ernakulam-Angamaly Archdiocese in Kerala has extended support to the residents of Lakshadweep islands in the Arabian Sea. A recent editorial in Sathyadeepam (light of truth) termed the crisis as ‘not just an attack against minority but against humanity.’ The politicsContinue Reading
By Cedric Prakash Ahmedabad: It was the virtual ‘midnight knock’! The irony was that the knock took place in broad daylight, and expectedly in a blatantly unjust, uncivilised and unconstitutional manner. On June 6, 2018, Sudhir Dhawale, Surendra Gadling, Mahesh Raut, Shoma Sen and Rona Wilson were arrested from theirContinue Reading
Rome: The Vatican has taken steps to better regulate Catholic lay religious movements by imposing term limits on their leaders and requiring internal elections to be representative of their memberships. The Vatican’s laity office on June 11 cracked down on the largely unregulated world of international associations of the faithfulContinue Reading
New Delhi: The Supreme Court said it would pass orders on June 15 on closure of proceedings in India against two Italian marines, accused of killing two fishermen off the Kerala coast in February 2012, and the disbursal of rupees 10 crore compensation to the heirs of the victims. ReferringContinue Reading
