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
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
