New Delhi: Amnesty International has halted its operations in India and said it had to let go of its staff after its accounts were frozen in early September as part of what it called a “witch-hunt” by the government over its adverse reports. The government, however, says the global rightsContinue Reading
Vatican City: As the Catholic Church marks 100 years of its ministry to seafarers, the Vatican is calling on governments, international, national organizations and port authorities to cooperate and create “special channels” to facilitate safe and secure crew changes, as the Covid-19 pandemic continues to roil the world. Stranded atContinue Reading
Delta: A Catholic priest in Nigeria has been abducted by gunmen two years after undergoing the same ordeal. On September 26 evening, Father Jude Onyebadi was kidnapped from his pineapple farm in the Aniocha North area of Delta State, located in southern Nigeria. The priest had been visiting the farm,Continue Reading
Imphal: A pastor was killed and more than 20 others, including women, were injured in a violent clash between two neighboring villages over a land dispute in Manipur’s Tengnoupal district. With tensions running high, district administration has imposed curfew prohibiting people moving out of their respective homestead under section 144Continue Reading
Guwahati: A total of 225,000 people in nine districts were affected and over 10,000 hectares of crops submerged on September 27 as fresh floods hit Assam, the state disaster management authority said. Dhemaji, Lakhimpur, Morigaon, Nagaon, Majuli, West Karbi Anglong, Sivasagar, Dibrugarh and Tinsukia districts have been affected, the AssamContinue Reading
Ranchi: Sister Lily Grace Topno, the newly elected superior general of the Daughters of St Anne (DSA), attributes her religious vocation to a Belgian Jesuit missionary, who was assassinated during a Hindu-Muslim riot 56 years ago. “As a small child, I have experienced his missionary zeal and love for theContinue Reading
Vatican City: Cardinal George Pell, Pope Francis’ former finance minister, will soon return to the Vatican during an extraordinary economic scandal for the first time since he was cleared of child abuse allegations in Australia five months ago, a church agency said Sept.28 Pell will fly back to Rome onContinue Reading
Matters India Reporter Darjeeling: A Radio journalist working with the first community radio in the Darjeeling Hills has staked his claim and snatched a place in the India Book of Records, 28 September 2020. Program Coordinator and founder member of Radio Salesian, the first Nepali language broadcasting Community Radio inContinue Reading
Balliguda: Six dioceses in Odisha, eastern India, found various ways to recruit candidates for priesthood during the coronavirus pandemic. While the minor seminary of Archdiocese of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar has no seminarian this year, other dioceses adopted new methods to candidates. “I am sad that we have no seminarians in the currentContinue Reading
Manila: Pope Francis on September 28 appointed Archbishop Charles John Brown as the new nuncio to the Philippines. The appointment was made public at noon in Rome. Archbishop Brown was born in New York on October 13, 1959, and was ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of New York onContinue Reading
