By Hedwig Lewis Mumbai: The Jesuits are observing an Ignatian Year, May 20, 2021 to July 31, 2022, to celebrate the fifth centenary of the conversion of St Ignatius of Loyola. On May 20, 1521, while defending the fortress of Pamplona, Spain, in a battle with the invading French army,Continue Reading
By Joe Bukuras Washington D.C.: Six days a week on busy Washington Street in Norwood, Massachusetts, Catholic barber Elias Elsayah can be found clipping hair and changing lives. Now a barber for eight years, Elsayah converts the hearts of many with his own miraculous conversion story. From their chair atContinue Reading
By chhotebhai Kanpur: Does this sound like an oxymoron, a contradiction in terms? Is it possible to be both a Pentecostal and a Catholic, when there is so much animosity between the two? I have another question, as we prepare for celebrating the feast of Pentecost. Where was the HolyContinue Reading
By George Cheriyan and Simi T.B. Jaipur: UN Global Road Safety Week (UNGRSW) is a biennial global road safety campaign hosted by WHO. It brings together individuals, governments, NGOs, corporations, and other organizations from around the world to raise awareness of road safety and make changes that will reduce theContinue Reading
Lucknow: An increasing number of members from the Christian community are now adopting the Hindu tradition of cremating the bodies. They are then taking the ashes in urns to the graveyard for entombment. “With the increasing number of deaths taking place in the second wave of the pandemic, land isContinue Reading
Chandigarh : Live-in relationships are socially and morally not acceptable, the Punjab and Haryana High Court recently observed while declining to grant protection to a couple seeking protection of their life. The petitioner couple — a 19-year-old woman from Uttar Pradesh and a 22-year-old man from Punjab — had movedContinue Reading
New Delhi: At least 13 people were killed in Gujarat as the severe cyclonic storm Tauktae entered Saurashtra region early May 18, whipping up winds close to 180 kmph. The cyclone has reduced in intensity and lay about 35 km west of Ahmedabad late in the evening, according to theContinue Reading
By Felix Anthony Guwahati: In the wake of rising number of Covid cases in North East India, the Catholic Church of the region has formed a core team to respond to the crisis. The primary task of the team, set up during an online meeting on May 18, is toContinue Reading
Irudhaya Jothi SJ Unokoti: Women of a tribal community in the northeastern Indian state of Tripura show the way to Aatmanirbhar Bharat (self-reliant India). They take a fist full of rice before putting it in the cooking pot, and this rice is collected and shared with the poor in theContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Mumbai: Jesuit tribal activist Father Stan Swamy was on May 18 taken to a hospital in Mumbai to give Covid-19 vaccine. The octogenarian Jesuit was then brought back to the Taloja jail near Mumbai where he was lodged on October 9, 2020. The vaccine was givenContinue Reading
