By M L Satyan Bengaluru, July 5, 2020: The loss of human life in India has become a regular, common and a day-to-day affair. Untimely deaths of human beings, due to various reasons do not bother us much. It is increasingly being recognized that health outcomes are a result notContinue Reading
Tokyo, July 5, 2020: Deep floodwaters and the risk of more mudslides that left at least 34 people confirmed or presumed dead hampered search and rescue operations July 5 in southern Japan, including at elderly home facilities where more than a dozen died and scores were still stranded. Helicopters andContinue Reading
Mosco, July 5, 2020: The Russian Orthodox Church on July 3 defrocked a coronavirus-denying monk who has defied Kremlin lockdown orders and taken control of a monastery. A church panel in the Ural Mountains city of Yekaterinburg ruled to defrock 65-year-old Father Sergiy, who has attracted nationwide attention by urgingContinue Reading
Rome, July 5, 2020: Pope Francis is praising U.N. Security Council efforts for worldwide cease-fires to help tackle the coronavirus pandemic. In remarks July 5 to the public in St. Peter’s Square, Francis hailed the Security Council’s “request for a global and immediate cease-fire, which would permit the peace andContinue Reading
Guwahati, July 5, 2020: With two more fresh deaths on July 4, the toll in the ongoing current wave of Assam floods has increased to 37. The situation, however, has largely improved in seven districts even as 11 lakh people in 18 of the state’s 33 districts have been affected,Continue Reading
By Felix Anthony Dibrugarh, July 5, 2020: A mission hospital in Assam’s Dibrugarh town was sealed after 12 Catholic nuns, including a doctor, was tested Covid-19 positive. The nuns and a domestic support working in the St. Vincenza Gerosa (VG) Hospital were on July 4 found to be infected withContinue Reading
By Jacob Peenikaparambil Indore, July 5, 2020: Universal Solidarity Movement (USM) in Indore on July 5 conducted a webinar for the parents of Carmel Convent Senior Secondary School, Gwalior in two sessions. As many as 325 parents attended the program in the morning session and 385 in the evening. USMContinue Reading
By Dr. George Jacob Kochi, July 5, 2020: It’s 4:26 pm. I am at my appointed station in the cold environs of the ICU I work in. Right over my head is the AC blower. It almost draws a parallel between my not-so-comfortable situation and that of a dressed broilerContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Melakavanoor, July 5, 2020: Madurai archdiocese and Sivagangai diocese in Tamil Nadu, southern India, have mourned the death of a catechist who served the church for 51 years. Brother Santiago, as fondly he was called, who was from Melakavanoor village and parish, Ramnad district, passed awayContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, July 5, 2020: Australian-born Jesuit Father Paul Jackson, who promoted Christian dialogue with Muslims in South Asia died on July 5 in Patna, capital of the eastern Indian state of Bihar. Father Jackson died at 6:45 pm in the Holy Family Hospital at Kurji, aContinue Reading
