By Jose Kavi New Delhi: The editor of a Catholic weekly in India, who took the initiative to keep track of deaths among priests and nuns due to Covid-19 in the country, says the findings have shocked him. “I am shocked at the huge loss to the Church in India,”Continue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kochi: The Catholic Church has welcomed Kerala Chief Minister taking over the portfolio involving minorities’ welfare. Vijayan is the first chief minister to handle the department since its creation 13 years ago. The decision not to entrust the portfolio to ministers hailing from the minority communityContinue Reading
By Vivek Narayanan Chennai: On May 1, R Seetha Devi waited outside the Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital to admit her 65-year-old mother who had tested Covid-19 positive. After hours, they managed to get R. Vijaya admitted to Government Stanley Hospital, but she died. To prevent others from struggling likeContinue Reading
By Purushottam Nayak Rourkela: Religious priests and nuns have joined the diocese Rourkela in Odisha state to dispel fear and depression from Covid patients while treating their disease. “I find God’s compassionate care and service from the sisters, priests, doctors and nurses,” says Etwari Barla, a Covid patient in CatholicContinue Reading
By Sujata Jena Bhubaneswar: Veteran environmental activist Sunderlal Bahuguna died May 21 at All India Institute of Medical Sciences in Rishikesh. He was 94. Bahuguna was admitted to the hospital on May 8 after testing Covid-19 positive. According to the hospital director Ravikant, the nonagenarian leader died at 12:05 pm.Continue Reading
By Irudhaya Jothi Kolkata: Catholic priests and nuns in West Bengal have been engaged with a multipronged approach to curtail the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. The second wave of the virus surged in the eastern Indian state March-April when it was going through an election process. Archbishop Thomas D’SouzaContinue Reading
Irudhaya Jothi Kolkata: Father Stan Swamy on May 21 rejected a proposal to admit him in a hospital but demanded interim bail to return to his residence in Ranchi, eastern India. The 84-year Jesuit tribal activist made the demand during a video conference with the Bombay High Court from theContinue Reading
By Mudita Menona Sodder Mumbai: Spirituality is a way of life. Sacred Heart of Jesus Spirituality is the way of the heart – the path of unconditional love. To follow in the footsteps of the Master, one has to study the interior dispositions of Jesus’ heart and learn to loveContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Mumbai: Sanju Agnel Varkey says he is alive now only because of Jesus whom he had called before jumping into the Arabian Sea from a sinking barge. The 24-year-old was among 186 people rescued by the Indian Navy after a 15-hour ordeal in the sea. TheyContinue Reading
By Lalita Roshni Lakra New Delhi: The Catholic Church in India has mourned the death of a Daughters of St Anne nun, who had witnessed to Christian love and service in eastern India and Andaman and Nicobar islands for decades. Sister Eveline Ekka died of Covid-19 at 3 pm onContinue Reading
