By Matters India Reporter New Delhi: As many as 14 Catholic priests in India have succumbed to the coronavirus pandemic between April 20 and 23, according to available information. They were among more than 20 priests the Church lost to Covid-19 in the past one month. The Church in IndiaContinue Reading
By Jessy Joseph New Delhi: A hermit nun’s mission deep inside the Girnar mountain range in western India’s Gujarat state has a new successor. “I had no plan or desire to lead an ascetic life, but God called me to continue the Mathaji’s mission,” says Father Christanand who moved intoContinue Reading
Dhaka: At least four people, including a woman, were killed and 23 others injured after a fire broke out at a chemical warehouse here in the Bangladeshi capital early April 23, according to media reports. The fire started at the ground floor of the building in Old Dhaka’s Armanitola areaContinue Reading
By Felix Anthony Ziro: The Apatani tribe of Arunachal Pradesh got its first Catholic nun when Sister Dulley Yakang made her First religious profession as the member of the Congregation of the Mother Carmel. She took the vows April 17 at a ceremony in Mount Carmel Parish, Dimapur, the commercialContinue Reading
New Delhi: With 332,348 new Covid-19 cases as of 11:30 p.m. on April 22, India reported more than 300,000 new infections for the second consecutive day. As many as 2,247 new deaths were also recorded. The country has so far reported a total of 16,257,337 cases and 186,919 deaths. TheContinue Reading
New Delhi: Despite repeated assurances from the government on medical oxygen, vaccines and hospital beds, Covid patients and their families have got little relief as cases continue to soar. At Delhi’s Lok Nayak Jai Prakash (LNJP) Hospital on April 22, amid a huge traffic pile-up of ambulances and private vehicles,Continue Reading
By Paul Kane Washington: The US Senate on April 22 overwhelmingly passed legislation designed to more forcefully investigate hate crimes, particularly those against Asian Americans after the March 16 shootings at three Atlanta spas and a wave of violence following the spread of the coronavirus from China last year. “ToContinue Reading
Mumbai: Mayur Shelke, a pointsman with Central Railway who was hailed as a hero for risking his own life to save a child at a Mumbai station, is earning plaudits online once again. This time, for donating a share of his award money to the very child he had saved.Continue Reading
New Delhi: Indian Islamic scholar and peace activist Maulana Wahiduddin Khan has died in the capital New Delhi after contracting novel coronavirus, his family members announced. He was 96. Khan was recently admitted to a hospital in New Delhi after testing positive for COVID-19. “The great Islamic scholar Maulana WahiduddinContinue Reading
By Saji Thomas Bhopal: Two Catholic nuns and two postulants were forced out of a train March 19 and paraded to a police station in Jhansi, a town in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. They were interrogated for five hours for allegedly violating a state law against forcibleContinue Reading
