By Peerzada Ummer, LiCAS News Reporter Renuka Singh, a 35-year-old housewife from India’s northern state of Haryana, vividly remembers the ordeal she experienced when she ran away from her in-laws’ house with one of her daughters. Married for four years, Renuka said she was subjected to extreme abuse from herContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kochi: The Kerala Catholic Bishops’ Council has asked the state government to withdraw all steps it had taken on deep sea fishing off the coast. The act of the Kerala government to sign a Memorandum of Understanding with a foreign firm without consulting the fishermen communityContinue Reading
Baghdad: When Pope Francis visits Iraq from March 5 to 8, he will meet only the scant remains of a Christian community of two millennia that has been hollowed-out by two past violent decades. After first settling in the fertile plains of Nineveh province before heading for the busy boulevardsContinue Reading
Vatican City: Pope Francis has advanced the sainthood cause of three Italian nuns who died from the Ebola virus while ministering to patients in Congo. The pope signed the decrees February 20 during a meeting with Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, prefect of the Congregation for Saints’ Causes. The Vatican published theContinue Reading
By Patrick Egwu Bodo: Simon Ayafa has witnessed oil pollution in the Niger Delta region since he was 15. Now, at 35, he feels the region has been made inhabitable by decades of oil spills. “You to go the stream to fetch water and you get oil,” said Ayafa, whoContinue Reading
London: A relative of Queen Elizabeth II was February 23 sentenced to a 10-month prison term for sexually assaulting a woman at his ancestral home in Angus, Scotland. Earl of Strathmore Simon Bowes-Lyon, who is the son of a cousin of the 94-year-old British monarch, was found to have forcedContinue Reading
New Delhi: A Delhi court on February 23 granted bail to Disha Ravi, the 22-year-old climate activist arrested February 13 in connection with the “toolkit” case and charged with sedition and conspiring against the country. She was asked to provide two sureties of 100,000 rupees, as a bail condition. “ConsideringContinue Reading
Meppadi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has sought to reach out to Christians in Kerala ahead of the coming assembly polls, hailing their service in many sectors. He also noted “an atmosphere of fear’ in the country, but did not elaborate. “The atmosphere of the country is one of fear. ButContinue Reading
By Lissy Maruthanakuzhy Panaji: Lent is a time for prayer, penance and almsgiving. In short, the period exhorts us to reach out to others in need, or to live serving others. In the Gospel of St Luke (vv38) Jesus assures us, ‘Give, and it will be given to you. AContinue Reading
By Divya Tom New Delhi: The idea of self-reliance is not new. Since, the post-independence period economists and governments have realized that to be truly free of European dominance, a country and its people should be free of economic reliance on Europe and the US. However, globalization hindered this process,Continue Reading
