Thane: Lack of jobs due to the Covid-19 pandemic has forced some young men who have college degrees to work as “nullah” (drain) cleaners in the Mumbra area near Thane. But they are not ashamed. No work is inferior and they have to support their families, said one of them.Continue Reading
The Covid-19 pandemic in India continues unabated, with 29 million infections reported so far. The country, on June 10, recorded the world’s highest number of deaths from the disease in a single day, reaching the dramatic figure of almost 360 thousand. Video testimony For this reason, Caritas Internationalis (CI) releasedContinue Reading
New Delhi: In the first five months of 2021, in 151 days of the current year, despite the serious pandemic situation, 127 episodes of violence against Christians took place in India: says to Agenzia Fides “United Christian Forum” (UCF), reporting the data obtained from the special “Toll-free number”, a telephoneContinue Reading
By Vijaita Singh and Suhasini Haidar New Delhi: Four Indian women, who joined as Islamic State fighters and now lodged in an Afghanistan prison, seem to face a bleak future. The women, all from Kerala, had accompanied their husbands to join the Islamic State in Khorasan Province (ISKP). They hadContinue Reading
Pope Francis has tapped a South Korean bishop to lead the Vatican office responsible for the world’s 400,000 Catholic priests, in the second major appointment of an Asian prelate to the Holy See during his papacy. Monsignor Lazarus You Heung-sik, currently the bishop of Daejeon, replaces the retiring Cardinal BeniaminoContinue Reading
Vatican City: The Institute for Religious Works, commonly known as the “Vatican bank,” announced June 11 that it recorded a net profit of $44 million in 2020. Cardinal Santos Abril y Castelló, president of the Supervisory Commission of Cardinals, said that he was “delighted” by the figure considering the coronavirusContinue Reading
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on June 11 asked the Centre how it intended to take food to crores of migrant labourers who have no ration cards. “How will food reach migrant labourers without ration cards?” a Bench of Justices Ashok Bhushan and M.R. Shah addressed Solicitor General Tushar MehtaContinue Reading
By Irudhaya Jothi Kolkata: The Society of Jesus has suffered the largest number of Covid deaths among Catholic priests in India despite all alertness and preparations, says the congregation’s South Asia chief. “Despite our goodwill and efforts, we lost about 37 Jesuits to Covid-19 this year,” Father Stanislaus D’Souza, presidentContinue Reading
By Priyadarshini Sen New Delhi: When 80-year-old Jesuit Father Joseph Kalathil took 32 letters in a cloth bag from India to Pakistan in 2012, little did he know he’d become a pivotal messenger of cross-border peace. With the peace letters written by schoolchildren to friends unknown to them across theContinue Reading
By Santosh Digal Manila: An Indian priest on June 11 took over as the chief content editor of Radio Veritas Asia, a pan-Asian radio service of the Catholic bishops of Asia. Father Feroz Fernandes, a member of the Society of Missionaries of St. Francis Xavier or better known as SocietyContinue Reading
