By Matters India Reporter Patna: Six colleges promoted by Christian minority community have figured in the list of Education World India league table of the country’s 10 most admired privately-promoted autonomous undergrad colleges for 2020-2021. The league table is based on the survey of 1,823 academics and 2,133 final yearContinue Reading
Gaza City: The sole Catholic priest in the Gaza Strip has warned of the severity of the recent violence between Israel and Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip. More than 200 people have died in Gaza, 59 of whom are children, the BBC reports. In Israel, 10 have died, ofContinue Reading
Vatican City, Pope Francis has appointed Fr. Stephen Chow, S.J. as the next bishop of Hong Kong. Chow, 61, has served as the provincial of the Jesuits’ Chinese Province since 2018. In that role, he led the Jesuit order in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, and mainland China as the Vatican-ChinaContinue Reading
New Delhi: According to the Indian Medical Association (IMA), 244 doctors have lost their lives due to Covid in the second wave. Of them, 50 deaths were recorded May 16. The highest number of fatalities have been reported from Bihar (69) followed by Uttar Pradesh (34) and Delhi (27). “ItContinue Reading
By Jessy Joseph New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on May 17 asked the federal government to take quick action on a Catholic nun’s petition to stop the release of a “blasphemous” Malayalam film on priests and nuns. Sacred Heart Sister Jessy Mani, a New Delhi-based psychologist, approached the DelhiContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi: Caritas India has begun setting up Covid treatment centers in 14 states with high prevalence as part of its continued efforts to save people from the deadly disease. The social arm of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India took the initiative as the countryContinue Reading
Women religious of UNANIMA International have launched a new publication with the results of their research on links between human trafficking and family homelessness. At the launch of ‘The Intersections of Family Homelessness and Human Trafficking,’ in an international webinar on 11 May, speakers from Australia, Philippines, India, Italy, Albania,Continue Reading
Geneva: Working long hours is killing hundreds of thousands of people a year in a worsening trend that may accelerate further due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the World Health Organization has said. I In the first global study of the loss of life associated with longer working hours, the paperContinue Reading
Bangalore: Father Baptist Pais was appointed the executive secretary to the Commission for Ecumenism under the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India. The 61-year-old member of the Mumbai province of the Divine World Society was made by the conference’s executive committee in a virtual meeting May 14-15. Father Pais was theContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Keerithodu: The funeral of an Indian nurse who was killed in a Palestinian rocket attack in Israel was held on May 16 in Kerala. Bishop John Nellikkunnel of Idukki conducted the funeral services of Soumya Santhosh adhering to Covid-19 protocol at Nithya Sahaya Matha (Perpetual Help)Continue Reading
