Mumbai: Catholic churches in Mumbai are getting ready to reopen for public Masses on November 29 after an eight-month Covid-19 lockdown. Worshipers will be seated far apart in the pews, prayer books will be absent, and masks and sanitizers will be omnipresent. Holy Name Cathedral in Colaba, where Cardinal OswaldContinue Reading
By Felix Anthony Namsai: Students from a Catholic college have won four top ranks in bachelor degree course examinations conducted by the oldest university in the northeastern Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh. The Venerable Uktara Bethany College (VUBC) at Namsai has produced outstanding results in the 2020 undergraduate examinations conductedContinue Reading
Panaji: Describing the newly-minted Goa Tourism Policy 2020 as a “mirage” which will not benefit either the state or its people, a church body has said that the document is not only short on data and fact, but also bats for privatisation of public resources. In a letter to theContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Palayamkottai: Jesuit Father Savarimuthu Ignacimuthu has been identified as one of the top 1 percent scientists in biology. The director of St Xavier’s College in Tamil Nadu’s Palayamkottai town earned the honor after scientists in the United States evaluated the Jesuit’s research publications. A recent articleContinue Reading
By Irudhaya Jothi Konchowki: Civil society groups and individuals in India have launched a campaign to send blankets and sippers for Jesuit Father Stan Swamy who is lodged in a Mumbai jail for more than a month. The campaign began November 26 after a special court in Mumbai rejected aContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Chennai: At least three people were killed and nearly 1 million affected in the Nivar cyclonic storm that hit Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry in the southern India. The Tamil Nadu government moved more than 227,000 vulnerable people to relief camps before the cyclone made the landfallContinue Reading
Bengaluru: Caren Rodrigues, assistant professor at St Joseph’s Institute of Management, Bengaluru, has been selected as a delegate to the global summit Economy of Francesco commissioned by Pope Francis. The Economy of Francesco is a one-time, international, council-style event to address the challenges of current economic models, starting from theContinue Reading
Bhubaneswar: Two medical aspirants from the Kandhamal district struggle to enroll in Under Graduate Medical Course (MBBS) at St. John’s Medical College, Bangalore due to financial constraints. Each candidate has to deposit 6,28,000 rupees by Nov 28 to avail of the allotted seat by the government at St. John’s. OneContinue Reading
Bengaluru: More than 100 participants from all over the world graduated in a Bible study on November 26. The certificate course was on contextualized Biblical Hermeneutics. As many as 25 lectures by scholars from different Christian denominations were offered. Participants attended the weekly discourses for almost seven months submitting essaysContinue Reading
High-ranking Iranian nuclear physicist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, who, Israel alleged, led the Islamic Republic’s military nuclear programme until its disbanding in the early 2000s has been “assassinated” in an ambush near Tehran. Fakhrizadeh was shot and injured “by terrorists” in his vehicle in Absard, a suburb in eastern Tehran, and laterContinue Reading
