By Bernadette Mary Reis Rome: A woman who lost her son to a terror act and United Nations secretary general António Guterres have won the 2021 Zayed Award for Human Fraternity. The winners were announced January 3, the eve of the first International Day of Human Fraternity The winners areContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi: A national body of Catholic and Protestant women leaders has urged Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to heed the protesting farmers’ demand and repeal the three recently enacted farm laws. “Our farmers have never failed our nation through the last 71 years. Please doContinue Reading
Vatican City, Feb 2, 2021 / 12:00 pm MT (CNA).- Pope Francis has dedicated the month of February to prayer for women who are victims of violence. In a video released on Feb. 1, the pope said: “It is shocking how many women are beaten, insulted, and raped … WeContinue Reading
Kinshasa: A militant Islamic group with an expansionist agenda has killed around 100 people, mostly Christian, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo in recent weeks, according to a report by the persecution watchdog Open Doors. More than 100 people were killed in three large attacks by theContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Marthandom: Cardinal Baselios Cleemis has released the Tamil translation of Pope Francis’ recent encyclical “Fratelli Tutti” (All Brothers) at a function at Marthandam, a town in Tamil Nadu’s Kanniyakumari district. Archbishop Antony Pappusamy of Madurai, the president of Tamil Nadu Bishops’ Council (TNBC), and Archbishop GeorgeContinue Reading
Rome: Margaret Karram from the Holy Land was elected president of the Focolare Movement, an international organization that promotes the ideals of unity and universal brotherhood. The 58-year-old Arab Catholic woman won more than two thirds of the votes cast in the movement’s 359-member General Assembly held on January 31.Continue Reading
By Priscilla Jebaraj New Delhi: Delhi has been turned into a fortress as the police continued to block access to border protest sites on February 2 with concrete barricades, barbed wire, nails and trenches across approach roads, and undertook massive deployment of security personnel. Journalists and other visitors were deniedContinue Reading
New Delhi: the Delhi Police on February 2 stopped journalists and others from entering the Singhu border, one of the sites of the protesting farmers. Earlier, those wanting to visit the protest site and the main stage could cross the barricades erected to prevent farmers from entering the national capitalContinue Reading
New Delhi: A nationwide law to ban religious conversions or interfaith marriages is not being planned since it falls under the dominion of states, the central government said in parliament on February 2. The assurance came amid a renewed drive for such legislation in several states ruled by the BharatiyaContinue Reading
Karachi: A Christian nurse was reportedly tied up and tortured by a mob at a Pakistani hospital after a Muslim colleague falsely accused her of blasphemy. Tabitha Nazir Gill, 30, was attacked and beaten by staff at the Sobhraj Maternity Hospital in Karachi where she has worked for nine years,Continue Reading
