Kandhamal: Officials in Odisha’s Kandhamal district have removed electric cables and ropes that villagers used to cross a river in Odisha’s Kandhamal district. The officials acted after videos and photos of people precariously perched on aluminum ropes while crossing the stream went viral on social media. More than 150 peopleContinue Reading
Bangkok: Christians in Thailand are celebrating after 1,435 people were baptized in a huge outdoor event. Believers from five different provinces of the Southeastern country gathered September 23 at a reservoir in central Thailand for the ceremony. Church planting groups Free in Jesus Christ Association (FJCCA) and Reach a VillageContinue Reading
New Delhi: The largest Christian human rights association of Bangladesh, ‘the Bangladesh Christian Association (BCA)’ has asked the government of Pakistan to repeal the controversial blasphemy law. The BCA submitted a memorandum to the Pakistan embassy in Dhaka on Wednesday demanding to end persecution and harassment of Christians and otherContinue Reading
Thiruvalla: On the morning of May 7, Divya P. John, a 21-year-old novice with the Basilian Sisters near here, attended class as usual, a church spokesman says. But an hour later, around noon, her body was found in a well at the convent. Rescuers retrieved the body and bypassed aContinue Reading
Chennai: Celebrated singer Sripathi Paditha Arathyula Balasubramaniam died in a Chennai hospital after almost two months of treatment. He was 74. The death occurred at 1:04 pm on September 25, 2020 in the MGM Healthcare. Balasubrahmanyam was hospitalized in August after testing positive for Covid-19, and while he reportedly did wellContinue Reading
New Delhi: More than two dozen farmers’ organizations from across India, supported by 18 political parties, on September 25 took to the streets protesting the farm bills passed by Parliament. Punjab and Haryana are the epicenters of the protests, though the demand for legal guarantee of minimum support prices (MSP)Continue Reading
Manila, Sept. 25, 2020: Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Catholic Church has decided to prolong by one year the quincentennial celebration of the arrival of Christianity in the Philippines. The supposed culminating activity in April, 2021, would now be the launch of a year-long celebration that will end inContinue Reading
By Mohammed Wajihuddin New Delhi, Sept 25, 2020: Ziya Us Salam, an old friend, a prolific writer and a senior journalist associated with The Hindu group for over two decades, told me in the first week of February that he had been to Shaheen Bagh and other anti-Citizenship Amendment ActContinue Reading
Thiruvananthapuram: The southern Indian state of Kerala has won a United Nations award for its “outstanding contribution” towards the non-communicable diseases-related sustainable development goals. The UN Interagency Task Force (UNIATF) award this year on prevention and control of non-communicable diseases was announced September 24 by World Health Organization director-general TedrosContinue Reading
VATICAN CITY , Sep 24, 2020: A powerful Vatican cardinal caught up in a real estate scandal resigned suddenly on September 24, and gave up his right to take part in an eventual conclave to elect a pope, in one of the most mysterious episodes to hit the Holy SeeContinue Reading
