Dehradun, June 22, 2020: Priests in Uttarakhand will soon start protests against the state government’s decision to set up a board to manage the affairs of temples in the northern Indian state. A priest from the Kedarnath shrine on June 22 completed 19 days of solo protest, sitting bare-chested inContinue Reading
By Claire Lesegretain Skardu, June 22, 2020: The Gilgit-Baltistan administrative region of northern Pakistan borders Afghanistan, Xinjiang in China and Jammu and Kashmir in India. In the heart of the Himalayas, where five of the highest peaks in the world culminate, this area crossed by the Indus River is homeContinue Reading
By Alia Allana New Delhi, June 22, 2020: India’s coronavirus response has affected Indians very differently. One thing unites them, though: a biscuit. The evening, surender malik recalls, was a blur. Exhausted, he had just sat down to watch television as his wife prepared dinner when Prime Minister Narendra ModiContinue Reading
By Fr Cedric Prakash SJ Ahmedabad, June 22, 2020: On June 20, the United Nations observed yet another ‘World Refugee Day.’ In a statement for the day the UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi said, “We are marking this year’s World Refugee Day against a backdrop of a dramaticContinue Reading
By Sujata Jena Bhubaneswar, June 22, 2020: The Telugu Catholic Church and Dalit activists have mourned the death of Father Bichapogu Anthaiah, director of Andhra Pradesh Social Service Forum. “I am deeply sorry to inform you that Father Bichapogu Anthaiah died this morning in Yeshoda Hospital due to cardiac arrest,”Continue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Punnathura, June 22, 2020: The body of a Catholic priest was found in the well of a parish church campus in the southern Indian state of Kerala. Father Thomas Ettuparayil, priest-in-charge of St Thomas Church Punnathura under the Archdiocese of Changanacherry, was missing since June 21.Continue Reading
By Thomas Scaria Mangaluru, June 22, 2020: Addiction to Smartphone and internet has increased alarmingly among teenagers and youth during lockdown, says a group of psychologists and youth representatives in Mangaluru southern India. Several youth representatives, psychologists and counselors from all over India on June 21 participated in a virtualContinue Reading
Hong Kong, June 21, 2020: Pro-democracy labour unions and a student group in Hong Kong failed to garner enough support to hold strikes against looming national security legislation imposed by Beijing, in a blow for the Chinese-ruled city’s protest movement. After a year of often-violent unrest, anti-government demonstrations have lostContinue Reading
Manila, June 21, 2020: He may be miles away but those who love Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle still found a way to celebrate his 63rd birthday on June 21 by donating food to the poor. Tagle, the prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, said some of hisContinue Reading
Mumbai, June 21, 2020: The federal Health Ministry on June 21 said the Maharashtra government and the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) have succeeded in bringing down the Covid-19 spread in Dharavi, Asia’s largest slums. “They have actively ‘chased the virus’ and aggressively conducted targeted tracing of suspects,” the ministry said.Continue Reading
