By Francis Sunil Rosario Kolkata: The Arch-diocese of Calcutta has inaugurated the commission for migrants in response to Pope Francis’ call address the global issue of migrants seriously. Archbishop Thomas D’Souza, regional chairman of the Commission for Migrants, and Bishop Shyamal Bose of Baruipur attended the February 26 program atContinue Reading
By Aiborlang Nongsiej Shillong: As an educator and a writer from the region of South West Khasi Hills District I condemn the barbaric act committed on the workers at St Xavier’s College, Umoid on the Feb 24 night. The inhuman act of the miscreants has shocked the entire district andContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Shillong: The Meghalaya police on February 27 urged the public to maintain peace and harmony after some unidentified miscreants attacked a group of construction workers from Assam in a Jesuit college campus. One person was killed and seven others were wounded in the February 24 attackContinue Reading
New Delhi: Farmers as well as villagers in Punjab have mourned the death of a teenage boy at Singhu border, one of sites of the ongoing farmer agitation. Navjot Singh, son of Jaswinder Singh, traveled from Kheri Jattan village in Punjab to the national capital to join the farmers protest.Continue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi: Catholic laity groups in India have welcomed the news that the Vatican has initiated a probe into allegations against Bishop Kannikadass Antony William of Mysore. The Vatican has finally set up an enquiry commission to look into all the allegations against Bishop William, saysContinue Reading
Rome: Unidentified gunmen have kidnapped some 300 schoolgirls from the Nigerian town of Jangebe in the north-western state of Zamfara. According to the state’s information commissioner, “Unknown gunmen came shooting sporadically and took the girls away” in a midnight raid on February 26 on the Jangebe Government Girls’ Secondary School.Continue Reading
By Irudhaya Jothi Kolkata: Retired Jesuit Bishop Linus Nirmal Gomes, the oldest Catholic prelate of India, died February 27 in Kolkata. He was 99. Bishop Gomes, the first prelate of Baruipur diocese in West Bengal, died at 3 am in the infirmary of Kolkata’s St Xavier’s College where he wasContinue Reading
New York: United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has announced the appointment of Ligia Noronha of India as Assistant Secretary-General and head of the New York Office of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). She will succeed Satya Tripathi of India, who was thanked by secretary-general for his leadership and dedicatedContinue Reading
Kolkata: India’s coast guard personnel have rescued 81 Rohingya refugees from a boat adrift in the Andaman Sea. “The engine of the boat failed on February 15 and since then it has been drifting,” Indian Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) spokesperson Anurag Srivastava said in a press briefing on FebruaryContinue Reading
A religious order announced on Feb 25 that it had withdrawn an application to exhume the body of its US-born founder following an outcry in England, where the nun is buried. In a Feb. 25 statement, the Society of the Holy Child Jesus said that it had abandoned plans toContinue Reading
