Vatican City: The Vatican has launched an investigation into how Pope Francis’s Instagram account “liked” a raunchy photograph of a Brazilian bikini model with her bottom on display, an official said November 20. Natalia Garibotto, 27, posed in a white cropped top, suspenders and the smallest of tartan skirts forContinue Reading
Bhubaneswar: The moment the COVID-19 lockdown started, I felt fear deep within. My inner voice was saying “stay at home,” but the cries of the thousands of the migrant workers all over the country kept me disturbed until I went out to help them. Welcoming a stranger is an importantContinue Reading
By Varghese Alengaden Indore: Very rarely have I heard of bishops expressing regret. Often bishops and priests who are in powerful positions behave as if they share the infallibility of Pope. So, I was surprised to know that a bishop has expressed his regret for attending a marriage between aContinue Reading
Bhopal: The BJP government in Madhya Pradesh government has decided to set up a “gau (cow) cabinet” for the protection and promotion of the cow, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has announced. “It has been decided to constitute a ‘gau cabinet’ for the protection and fostering of godhan (cow andContinue Reading
By Molly Cahill Boston: My mom tells a story about one night when I was 4 years old and had a stomach bug. She stayed up late with me, and when I finally started to drift off to sleep, she turned on the TV. When the news flashed across theContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Mumbai: Father Stan Swamy, who is in a Mumbai jail for more than one month, has sought prayers for a fellow prisoner who has become seriously ill. “Varavara Rao is very sick. Kindly, pray for him,” the octogenarian Jesuit told confrere over phone. Rao, an activist,Continue Reading
New Delhi: A disability rights group has written to the National Human Rights Commission chairperson demanding that the ailing and elderly Fr Stan Swamy, who is lodged in a Maharashtra jail over alleged Maoist links, be given the treatment and facilities he needs to survive. In the letter to NHRCContinue Reading
Hong Kong: After a long week of cooking and cleaning in the cramped households of Hong Kong, a group of Filipino domestic helpers are using their Sunday off for an unlikely hobby: cricket. And they’re proving rather good at it. Despite no background in the game, scant coaching and veryContinue Reading
Kohima: A peaceful demonstration to protest the alleged false implication and jailing of the 83-year old social activist and Jesuit priest Rev Fr Stan Swamy SJ was held in Kohima on November 17. Updates from the organizers informed that the demonstration began with a prayer led by Rev Fr RichardContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi: Pope Francis on November 19 transferred Bishop Anthony Poola of Kurnool to Hyderabad as its archbishop. The Pope also accepted the resignation of Archbishop Thumma Bala of Hyderabad, who reached the bishops’ canonical retirement age of 75 in April 2019. Archbishop Bala headed theContinue Reading
