New Delhi: Profits from Covid-19 jabs have helped at least nine people become billionaires, a campaign group claimed, calling for an end to pharmaceutical corporations’ “monopoly control” on vaccine technology. “Between them, the nine new billionaires have a combined net wealth of US$19.3 billion, enough to fully vaccinate all peopleContinue Reading
By Purushottam Nayak Koraput: Panic has spread among Christians in an Odisha village after some 150 armed demolished a church under construction. “Out of fear we had to remain in one house to escape being attacked,” Debo Bhoi, one of the Christians in Bodoguda, a village in Koraput district, toldContinue Reading
By Fr. Cedric Prakash SJ Ahmedabad: It was quintessential Stan! In a manner which has come to characterize him Jesuit Fr Stan Swamy told the Bombay High Court during a hearing on May 21, “I want to go to Ranchi to be with my friends….Whatever happens to me I wouldContinue Reading
By M K George Rome: It is Covid-19 pandemic times. Men and women are dying like never before. Hunger and destitution stare at the faces of millions. In India, as of May 18, daily deaths had reached 4,529 and total deaths have reached 280,000. More than 25 million have beenContinue Reading
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
