By Shalini Mulackal Varanasi, July 29, 2020: I got the news about Father George Gispert Sauch’s final going home around 12 noon on July 29. I was taking class to a group of students at IMS (Indian Missionary Society) theologate in Varanasi. When I got back to class I toldContinue Reading
Surat, July 29, 2020: A businessman who recovered from coronavirus has converted his office into an 85-bed facility to provide free treatment for the poor. With public hospitals struggling to cope, Kadar Shaikh spent 20 days in a private clinic in June in Gujarat’s Surat — and was horrified byContinue Reading
Matters India reporter Darjeeling, July 29, 2020 — A college professor in Darjeeling organises relief supplies for stranded migrant workers from Nepal and needy poor with help of local Christian minority group members. Salesian College Sonada Dean (Arts & Humanities) leads Sonada United Christian Minority Welfare Society (SUCMWS) members fromContinue Reading
By Dr. George Jacob Kochi, July 29, 2020: Kerala’s ‘Covidian’ battle began with arrival of three students from Wuhan on January 30. One among them was the first case reported in Kerala as well as India. Lessons learnt from its successful battle against Nipah viral infection of 2018 had theContinue Reading
Thiruvananthapuram, July 29,2020: An assortment of spices grown in Kerala have been spreading their aroma, and fame, in far-off lands for centuries now. And the latest to fall for their taste and smell is a couple based in distant Ireland, who has used organically grown spices to flavour up aContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Bhubaneswar, July 29, 2020: Archbishop John Barwa of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar, head of the Catholic Church in Odisha, on July 29 congratulated a Catholic young woman from the eastern Indian state who has been named a member of the UN Secretary-General’s Youth Advisory Group. “Climate change and globalContinue Reading
By Stanislaus Alla Delhi, July 29, 2020: Noted Jesuit theologian and Indologist Jesuit Father George Gispert-Sauch is no more. After leaving Vidyajyoti College of Theology, Delhi, five years ago, he has been living at Vinayalaya, a Jesuit residence in Mumbai, western India. Fondly called as Father Gispert, he taught atContinue Reading
By Varghese Alengaden Indore, July 29, 2020: Criminals who are arrested for crimes of murder, rape and financial irregularities refuse to confess their crime. They flatly deny their crimes and employ the best and the most expensive lawyers to defend them. Many of these criminals succeed in escaping from theContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, July 29, 2020: Father George Gispert Sauch, a renowned theologian and Sanskrit scholar who taught generations of Indian seminarians, died on July 29 in Mumbai. He was 90. Father Gispert, as he was popularly known, was leading a retirement life at Vinayalaya, Jesuit center inContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Bhopal, July 29, 2020: Hate crimes against Christians in India have increased by an alarming 40.87 percent despite the nationwide lockdown, says the half-yearly report of Persecution Relief released July 29. The report records 293 cases of hate crimes against Christians, including five rapes and sixContinue Reading
