By Jessy Joseph New Delhi, Sept 3, 2020: A Franciscan Clarist Congregation nun has died of Covid-19 Coronavirus in the 50th year of her religious life. Sister Annie Flossy died September 1 at New Delhi’s Holy Family Hospital. She was 74. She was brought to Delhi August 17 with acuteContinue Reading
Vatican City, Sept. 3, 2020: Pope Francis said on Sept. 3 that science and faith together can help humanity to overcome ecological crises. Addressing a delegation of French ecological experts Sept. 3, the pope said that the Catholic Church was committed to defending the planet from exploitation. “It has noContinue Reading
By George Cheriyan Jaipur, Sept 3, 2020: The Covid 19 pandemic will have severe negative impacts on achieving the targets of most of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). However, while unlocking and reconnecting, pandemic offers countries an opportunity to rebuild recovery plans that will reverse current trends and change theContinue Reading
By Dr. George Jacob Kochi, Sept 3, 2020: The World has been battling with Covid-19 since December 2019. No light is visible yet at the end of the seemingly unending and uncertain ‘viral tunnel’ through which the world seems to be dragged through. Clinical spectrum of Covid-19, which ranges fromContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Bengaluru, Sept 2, 2020: An eventful era in the Bangalore Archdiocese’s history has come to an end with the passing away of Father Ignatius Anthappa, a Kannada scholar and historian. Father Anthappa, who led the Kannada faction in the archdiocese, died on August 31 at St.Continue Reading
By Purushottam Nayak Mayurbhanj, Sept 2, 2020: The diocese of Balasore on September 2 commemorated the 21st martyrdom of Father Arul Doss who worked among poor tribal people of Odisha, eastern India. “He sacrificed his life for the marginalized, downtrodden, poor and needy people,” said Father Isaac Puthenangadi, the diocese’sContinue Reading
September 2, 2020″The coronavirus pandemic will widen the poverty gap between women and men, pushing 47 million more women and girls into impoverished lives by next year, and undoing progress made in recent decades, the United Nations said on Sept 2. Worldwide, more women than men will be made poorContinue Reading
New Delhi, Sept 2, 2020: As the world remains in the throes of the coronavirus crisis, Pope Francis, in his new book, will explain how it can be made a safer, fairer, and a healthier place for people to live in, publisher Simon & Schuster announced on Sept 2. TheContinue Reading
New Delhi, Sept 2, 2020: A UK-based online magazine has ranked K K Shailaja, the health minister of the southern Indian state of Kerala, the top among 50 world thinkers. “So deft was her handling of a 2018 outbreak of the deadly Nipah disease that it was commemorated in aContinue Reading
By Narendra Pachkhédé Toronto, Sept 2, 2020: The exchange between the little prince and the fox from the classic 20th century post-war French fable, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s Le Petit Prince, holds the key to how two men – Satyajit Ray and Fr Gaston Roberge – met every Sunday at 9Continue Reading
