Guwahati : Sister Rose Paite stepped inside this sprawling city’s main train station and scanned the crowd. She often visits public gathering places like this as part of her life’s mission: to save children from being trafficked. In seconds, Paite was off. She had spotted a situation that alarmed herContinue Reading
JAKARTA: Before each rainy season Lu Lu Aung and other farmers living in a camp for internally displaced people in Myanmar’s far northern Kachin state would return to the village they fled and plant crops that would help keep them fed for the coming year. But this year in theContinue Reading
Opponents of military rule in Myanmar inscribed messages of protest on Easter eggs on April 4 while thousands of others were back on the streets, denouncing the February 1 coup and facing off with the security forces who shot and killed two men. In the latest in a series ofContinue Reading
Jamshedpur: Dolma Buru Sendra Samity, a frontal outfit of tribals, has started preparations for Bishu Shikar, an annual hunting festival, at the Dalma wildlife sanctuary. The samity convened a meeting at Gadra on the outskirts of Jamshedpur on April 4 to discuss the festival, called Sendra, celebrated every year betweenContinue Reading
Denver: Despite difficulties of the Covid-19 pandemic, parishes are welcoming groups of catechumens and candidates into the Catholic Church this Easter who have had to learn about the faith largely through virtual meetings. One such parish is St. Ignatius Parish in San Francisco, which is welcoming a group of catechumensContinue Reading
New York: A parolee convicted of killing his mother nearly two decades ago has been arrested on hate crime charges over an attack on an Asian American woman in New York City, police said. New York Police Department said Brandon Elliot, 38, is the man seen on surveillance video (picturedContinue Reading
By Ravi Kaushal New Delhi: Intensifying their protest against the farm laws, farmers’ organizations on April 5 gheraoed (encircled) the offices of the Food Corporation of India in a series of protests. The protests to last during the first fortnight of April were called by the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (unitedContinue Reading
By Kashif Kakvi Bhopal: Rajendra Kelwa stops whenever he spots a pothole or a pit in the road. The 42-year-resident of Ratlam town in the central India state of Madhya Pradesh either fixes it with his bare hands by using debris from construction sites or puts a warning sign onContinue Reading
By C M Paul Darjeeling: Living in Darjeeling, a place connected to Mother Teresa’s ‘call within the call,’ I find the latest book ‘Mother Teresa, The Saint and Her Nation’ a fascinating reading as it offers hitherto unknown information about the saint. In the present work Gëzim Alpion probably theContinue Reading
By Jhinuk Mazumdar Kolkata: Pastors, priests, heads of schools and parishioners from various parts of Kolkata participated in an Easter Rally that was organized on April 4 evening. The rally with 1,100-odd participants started from Bishop’s College and culminated with a thanksgiving worship service on the grounds of St James’Continue Reading
