By Lissy Kurian Panaji: On Easter Monday when a young woman with her mother came to our house asking for me, I was perplexed. How did she get my name and find our house, I wondered? But I kept my queries to myself recognizing an emergency. Hardly had she takenContinue Reading
By Courtney Mares Rome: Cardinal Oswald Gracias, head of the Catholic Church in India, will be among more than 25 cardinals and bishops attending the International Eucharistic Congress in Budapest. The 52nd edition of the Congress, a celebration of the Real Presence of Jesus Christ in the Eucharist with participantsContinue Reading
Amritsar: The Border Security Force (BSF) wants to register a case against an intruder from Pakistan, that happens to be a pigeon, while the Punjab Police are seeking a legal opinion on this. The pigeon landed on the shoulder of a BSF soldier at the Rorawala post in Amritsar, Punjab,Continue Reading
By George Cheriyan Bengaluru: Earth Day, celebrated every year on April 22, will see this year again more than 1 billion people participating in various activities around the world to draw attention to the urgency of environmental degradation and the need for immediate action highlights environmental issues including loss ofContinue Reading
Nashik: Disruption in the supply of medical oxygen has killed at least 22 patients in a hospital in western India’s Maharashtra state, officials have said. Suraj Mandhare, an official in the Nashik district of Maharashtra, said an oxygen tanker leaked outside a hospital in the city, halting its supply forContinue Reading
Gwalior: Three migrant workers were killed and at least seven injured in Madhya Pradesh’s Gwalior district after the heavily overcrowded bus they were travelling in overturned on an accident-prone stretch at Jourasi Ghati around 8.30 am April 20. Local police said the bus was carrying around 100 migrant workers whoContinue Reading
Former Minneapolis Officer Derek Chauvin was convicted April 20 of murder and manslaughter for pinning George Floyd to the pavement with his knee on the Black man’s neck in a case that touched off worldwide protests, violence and a furious reexamination of racism and policing in the U.S. Chauvin, 45,Continue Reading
Colombo: A Sri Lankan Catholic archbishop appealed to the country’s Muslims on April 21 to reject extremism and join Catholics in determining the truth behind Easter Sunday suicide bombings in 2019 that killed 269 people. Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith of Colombo made the appeal during a commemoration of the second anniversaryContinue Reading
The Vatican is thinking about selling the London property at the center of a financial scandal at the Secretariat of State, which lost an estimated $100 million in the building’s purchase. Bloomberg reported this week that the Vatican is considering selling the former car showroom of the Harrods department store,Continue Reading
In commemoration of Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day on April 24, Bishop David J Malloy of Rockford, chairman of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB) Committee on International Justice and Peace highlighted the tragic loss of so many Armenians in what has been called the first genocide of the 20thContinue Reading
