By Rachel Lu The memory remains vivid to this day. I crouched by the water, gulping the humid summer air. In my right hand, I held a sharp blade. The left secured my struggling victim. From behind, five pairs of eyes bored into the back of my skull. How, IContinue Reading
Kochi, July 26, 2020: The Public Affairs Commission of the Syro Malabar Church urged the Kerala government to take immediate action to protect farmers, farms and livestock from wildlife attacks. “It is not in the interest of a civilized society to ignore the cries of farmers and their families whoContinue Reading
Ranchi, July 26, 2020: Non-Christian Adivasis in Jharkhand, who worship Nature and are opposed to idol worship, seem upset at attempts by Hindu radical groups to collect soil from ‘Sarna Sthal’ for offerings at the proposed Ram Temple in Ayodhya on August 5. Following a meeting on July 24 ofContinue Reading
Thiruvalla, July 26, 2020: A Syro-Malankara archdiocese has allowed the district administration to use several of its institutions as Covid care centers as coronavirus infection continues to rattle the southern Indian state of Kerala. Archbishop Thomas Mar Koorilos of Thiruvalla says the archdiocese has allowed the administration of Pathanamthitta districtContinue Reading
Nantes, July 26, 2020: French authorities detained and charged a repentant church volunteer July 26 after he told investigators that he was responsible for an arson attack that badly damaged a 15th-century Gothic cathedral. The man had previously been questioned and then released after the July 18 blaze that destroyedContinue Reading
By Lissy Maruthanakuzhy Panaji, July 26, 2020: A parish in Goa on found a new way to celebrate Grandparents’ Day on July 26, the feast of Saints Joachim and Anne, parent of the Blessed Virgin Mary. “Every year our catechism children with the help of the catechists used to celebrateContinue Reading
By: Matters India Reporter Kozhikode, July 26, 2020: Police in Kerala have registered a case against Bishop Remigiose Inchananiyil of Thamarassery for breaking coronavirus restrictions. The Syro-Malabar prelate is among 40 people charged by the police for participating in a protest at the Forest Range Office in Thamarassery, near Kozhikode,Continue Reading
By Fr. Cedric Prakash SJ Ahmedabad, July 25, 2020: John Lewis is no more and the world will miss him! When he died on July 17, he left a great void which will never be filled! He was one of a kind who roamed this earth, impacted on the livesContinue Reading
Dr George Jacob Kochi, July 25, 2020: The world has been at the mercy of SARS CoV-2 since late December 2019. Originating in the wet markets of China’s Wuhan through an inter-species transfer from bat to man, the virus managed to escape from its cage and become at its destructiveContinue Reading
Carfin, July 25, 2020: A church in Scotland has installed a contactless holy water dispenser in a bid to keep its congregation safe from the spread of Covid-19. St Francis Xavier in Carfin, just outside Motherwell, has reintroduced the Catholic practice of blessing by holy water four months after itContinue Reading
