By Matters India Reporter Bengaluru: A couple working as bonded laborers in Bangapete was released after 25 years. Thanks to the persistent efforts of “Jeevika” (livelihood), a Bengaluru-based NGO that focuses on ending bonded labor in India. In 2003, Jeevika organization identified the couple–Krishnappa (66) and Rukkamma (53) working asContinue Reading
London: A hospital in eastern England on November 13 paid moving tributes to a “dedicated and committed” Indian-origin doctor after his death from Covid-19. Krishnan Subramanian, a 46-year-old Consultant Anesthetist at Royal Derby Hospital of the University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation (UHDB), died on November 12 atContinue Reading
Rome: The Chinese government’s latest five-year plan proposal contains a birth policy with an emphasis on eugenics, a China scholar said this week. China, known for its decades-long one-child policy, is now looking to counter its ageing population by encouraging Chinese women to have more babies — but only certainContinue Reading
New York: Pope Francis has telephoned Joe Biden, says a statement from the US president-elect. “President-elect Joe Biden spoke this morning (November 12) with His Holiness Pope Francis. The President-elect thanked His Holiness for extending blessings and congratulations and noted his appreciation for His Holiness’ leadership in promoting peace, reconciliation,Continue Reading
By Robancy A Helen Mettala: Loyola College of Arts and Science, one of the Jesuit institutions in Tamil Nadu, has come forward to sponsor the academic fees of poor students amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The college is located in Mettala near Salem but in Namakkal district in Tamil Nadu.Continue Reading
By George Cheriyan Tiruvalla: The Malankara Mar Thoma Syrian Church will install its new supreme head November 14 in a ceremony at the Church headquarters at Tiruvalla, Kerala. Bishop Geevarghese Mar Theodosius, who is currently the Church’s Suffrafan Metropolitan (second in command), will become the 22nd Mar Thoma Metropolitan toContinue Reading
Vatican City: Pope Francis on November 12 promoted and transferred Bishop Raphy Manjaly of Allahabad as the archbishop of Agra, the mother diocese of the Church in northern India. He succeeds Archbishop Albert D’Souza, who has headed the Agra Archdiocese since 2007. Archbishop D’Souza last year turned 75, the canonicalContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Darjeeling: Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama has lauded a Salesian priest’s book on the history of the Catholic Church in Tibet. “His Holiness was very interested to know the history of the missionaries to Tibet and the hazardous journeys and experiences they endured crossing theContinue Reading
Vatican City: The Vatican’s Nov. 10 McCarrick Report has raised new questions about the finances of former cardinal Theodore McCarrick, and his use of the Archbishop’s Fund, an account he maintained for charitable purposes, first in Newark and then in Washington, D.C. In particular, the report notes that McCarrick contributedContinue Reading
Vatican City: Coronavirus restrictions have forced the Vatican to scale down Nov. 14 commemoration of the World Day of the Poor, a Vatican archbishop said Nov. 12. Speaking at a press conference Nov. 12, Archbishop Rino Fisichella said that the pope would not be able to host a lunch forContinue Reading
