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
Mumbai, Aug 17, 2020: The Maharashtra government has honored a Divine Word priest for exceptional service to nation-building. The western Indian state’s Disaster Management Department conferred the ‘Corona Warrior’ Award on Father Richard Quadros, director of Sarva Vikas Deep, a social service center at Mangaon in Raigad district on AugustContinue Reading
By Santosh Digal Manila, August 17, 2020: An Indian nun, serving as a missionary in the Philippines, died in Manila on August 16. She was 65. Sister Veronica Paul, a member of Sisters of Charity of St. Anne congregation, died at 7:45 am (local time, which is 5:15 am IndianContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, Aug 17, 2020: The Indian Catholic Press Association (ICPA) on August 17 mourned the death of Sister Caridad Paramundayil, the first woman to edit a major Catholic publication in the country. Sister Paramundayil died of a cardiac arrest earlier in the day at a hospitalContinue Reading
Kochi, Aug 17, 2020: The Kerala government took over a church in Mulanthuruthy in the wee hours on August 17 amid strong resistance by followers of the Jacobite church, as part of implementing a 2017 Supreme Court order granting possession of over 1,100 churches to the rival Orthodox faction, policeContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kolkata, Aug 17, 2020: The only woman to edit India’s first Catholic weekly, who had spent years to rehabilitate sex workers, died of cardiac arrest August 17 in Kolkata, eastern India. Sister Caridad Paramundayil was 71. The member of the Sisters Adorers Handmaids of the BlessedContinue Reading
Rome, Aug 16, 2020: Their heads encased in white bandages covering the wounds where they had been conjoined, 2-year-old twins named Ervina and Prefina were baptised by Pope Francis on August 6 in the chapel of his residence. The babies from the Central Africa Republic are still hospitalised at theContinue Reading
By Robin Gomes Vatican, August 16, 2020: “There is no other path than dialogue,” said Cardinal Charles Bo, Archbishop of Yangon, in a statement issued in view of the 4th session of the 21st-Century Panglong Union Peace Conference (UPC), scheduled from August 19 to 21 in Myanmar’s capital, Naypyitaw. “We’reContinue Reading
