New Delhi: A group of Catholic nuns along with 20 orphans was among those rescued as flood waters ravaged the southern Indian city of Hyderabad. “A community of Sisters of Navajeevan Vikas with 20 orphan children was stranded without food and water. Just managed to reached them now,” Brother VargheseContinue Reading
Lucknow: The Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court has barred officials from giving public statements on the Hathras gangrape and murder case if they are not directly connected with the investigation. The court said that the restraint order was necessary to avoid “unnecessary speculation and confusion among the masses,Continue Reading
New Delhi: The Supreme Court of India has rejected a plea seeking ban on Halal form of slaughtering of animals adhered by Muslims. A bench headed by Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul October 12 questioned the intention of the petitioner and also said that court cannot interfere with the food habitsContinue Reading
Vatican City: Pope Francis called for the laity to “take a step forward” in carrying out the Church’s mission of evangelization in a preface to a book written by an Italian bishop. “The time is now. The mission of the laity is not a privilege of a few and itContinue Reading
Secunderabad: Father Mathew Abraham, director-general of the Catholic Health Association of India (CHAI), has been reappointed to his current post. The current term of the present CHAI Director-General, Father Abraham, a Redemptorist priest, is due to end in April 2021. Based on the officially prescribed internal processes, the CHAI NationalContinue Reading
Lucknow: A Catholic delegation led by Bishop Raphy Manjaly of Allahabad has met R K Tiwari, chief secretary of the government of Uttar Pradesh, to clarify doubts regarding the re-opening of places of worship in the northern Indian state from October 15. The confusion arose because of the differences inContinue Reading
Varanasi: Mahima Bhardwaj is determined to become the first-generation learner in her family. The 18-year-old girl from Sarai Mohana village of Varanasi in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh belongs to Dalit community. The village, 9 km away from Varanasi, Hinduism’s holiest city, is sits on the bank ofContinue Reading
New Delhi: While working with Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India Office for Labor, I came to know closely the problems and issues faced by migrant laborers. On March 14, I was appointed secretary to the Commission for Migrants, Northern Region of India. I took office when Covid-19 had already spreadContinue Reading
The rector of a Catholic university in Poland urged academics worldwide Monday to sign an appeal committing themselves to promoting the teachings of St. John Paul II. Fr. Mirosław Kalinowski, rector of the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, launched the appeal Oct. 12, as the centenary of theContinue Reading
More than 200 state-run secondary schools in the Republic of Ireland will begin to phase out historical Catholic symbols and mandatory Masses, Irish sources have reported. The new regulations apply to the country’s ETB schools, which are run by the government’s Education and Training Boards. The new rules officially classifyContinue Reading
