Low pay, 24-hour shifts and severe shortages of staff and protective gear have left many doctors on the front lines of India’s brutal pandemic surge near breaking point and fearful for their lives. Coronavirus infections have killed at least 165,000 people in the vast South Asian nation – home toContinue Reading
New Delhi: A photograph of Congress President Sonia Gandhi has gone viral, which purportedly shows a bookshelf behind her with a book titled ‘How to convert India into a Christian Nation’. The image also shows a copy of the Holy Bible and a statue of Jesus Christ on the shelf.Continue Reading
New Delhi: Bal Swaraj, an online tracking portal of a national child rights body, shows details of nearly 10,000 children in India in immediate need of care and protection. They include children under 17 orphaned or abandoned during the Covid-19 pandemic since March 2020. The National Commission for Protection ofContinue Reading
Rome: The Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples has honored an Indian Claretian priest for his two decades of service. Father Joseph Koonamparampil received insignia of honor from Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, prefect of the congregation. The occasion also marked the Father Koonamparampil’s golden jubilee in the Claretian congregation. TheContinue Reading
By Felix Anthony Kharsang: A village youth from the eastern extreme of Arunachal Pradesh is spreading positivity during the lockdown time with portraits made of charcoal. Jonathan Wangpan’s portraits of famous personalities like Mr. Bean, Snoop Dogg, Kiren Rijiju and others have won many hearts in Arunachal Pradesh and acrossContinue Reading
It was three weeks ago when journalists combing obituary pages in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state of Gujarat found authorities were concealing Covid-19 deaths that people started asking hard questions about the real number of Indian coronavirus fatalities. Now, epidemiologists and scientists around the world are struggling to solveContinue Reading
Washington: The Holy See has been granted permanent observer status to the World Health Organization following resolution adopted by consensus on May 31. This means that the Holy See will be a non-member state Observer for the organization, and will be permitted to observe sessions and participate in debates. UnlikeContinue Reading
Washington D.C.,: The U.S. Embassy to the Holy See announced on June1, that it was displaying the rainbow LGBT “Pride” flag for the month of June, which is celebrated as LGBT “Pride” month. “The United States respects the dignity and equality of LGBTQI+ people. LGBTQI+ rights are human rights,” theContinue Reading
By M L Satyan Bengaluru: We, human beings, have been boasting of our science, technology, military and weapon power. Every country has been spending enormous amount of money for procuring arms, weapons and nuclear power. Our human pride, our imagined self-importance, status and money power, the delusion that we haveContinue Reading
By Bernardo Cervellera Rome: The editor of AsiaNews bids farewell as he returns to Hong Kong and China, an old and new mission. He gives thanks to God, to the AsiaNews staff, to friends and readers for their generosity. Mission in mass media is the “first areopagus” of contemporary mission.Continue Reading
