Santiago, April 18, 2020: Two Chilean pastors arrested for holding religious gatherings during the coronavirus pandemic have won their legal case, setting a landmark precedent for future religious freedom cases in the country. In June, Alliance Defending Freedom filed a request for emergency cautionary measures with the Inter American CommissionContinue Reading
Vatican City, Aug 18, 2020: Pope Francis has donated ventilators and ultrasound scanners to hospitals in coronavirus-ravaged Brazil. In a Aug. 17 press statement, papal almoner Cardinal Konrad Krajewski said that 18 Dräger intensive care ventilators and six Fuji portable ultrasound scanners would be shipped to Brazil on the pope’sContinue Reading
Vatican, August 18, 2020: Cardinal George Pell, who was acquitted this year after becoming the highest-ranking Catholic cleric ever to be convicted of sexual abuse, spoke about how he maintained hope during his 400 days in prison. “The virtue of Christian hope is different than Christian optimism. No matter whatContinue Reading
By Jeffrey Gettleman and Suhasini Raj Chennai, Aug. 18, 2020: One of Senator Kamala Harris’s brightest childhood memories was walking down the beach hand in hand with her Indian grandfather. Her grandfather, P.V. Gopalan, had served for decades in the Indian government, and his ritual, nearly every morning, was toContinue Reading
Harare, Aug 18, 2020: The apostolic nuncio to Zimbabwe has expressed solidarity to the country’s top Catholic leader who is facing attacks from the government for speaking out against corruption and human rights violation. The nuncio, Archbishop Paolo Rudelli, on August 16 visited Archbishop Robert Christopher Ndlovu of Harare, whoContinue Reading
New Delhi, Aug 17, 2020: Derry, a small village in Northern Ireland experienced much joy on August 15 when a mural of Sister Clare Crockett, one of its daughters, was opened four years after an earthquake in Ecuador killed her. Now, people from around the world visit Derry to prayContinue Reading
Londonderry, Aug 17, 2020: The sister of a nun who has been credited with fertility miracles since her death in an earthquake has spoken of her pride of a new mural in her hometown. Sister Clare Crockett, 33, was killed in an earthquake in Ecuador in April 2016. The buildingContinue Reading
By Haritha John New Delhi, Aug 17, 2020: Jayan Joseph migrated from Parassala in Kerala’s Thiruvananthapuram to Kannur district about four decades ago. Now 73, has worked as a daily wage laborer, head load worker, fish seller, and also cleaned wells and ponds. Born into a Scheduled Caste Hindu community,Continue Reading
Kolkata, Aug 17, 2020: A nonagenarian Salesian priest has beaten Covid to go back home from hospital. Father Peter Vincent Lourdes, 94, even hoisted the Tricolour on August 15, the Independence Day, before leaving the hospital. Father Lourdes was diagnosed with Covid-19 in July-end. He was put in home isolationContinue Reading
Washington, August 17, 2020: Scriptures from Vedas and Mahabharata rendered by a woman from Chinmaya Mission in Texas and prayer by a Sikh community leader from Wisconsin Gurdwara echoed at an interfaith service held virtually to kick off the historic Democratic National Convention. The four-day convention beginning on August 17Continue Reading
