By M L Satyan Bengaluru, June 14, 2020: The whole world is waging a war against the deadly Coronavirus. For many countries, including India, it is becoming a critical situation of ‘life’ or ‘death.’ Everyone, irrespective of caste, colour, class, culture, language and region, is living with constant fear andContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Ranchi, June 14, 2020: Simon Oraon will soon sleep in a proper house, thanks to some bank officers. The 84-year-old Padma Shri recipient, known as the waterman of Jharkhand, lives in living in a tin-roofed dilapidated house along with his wife Virginia and two maternal grandchildrenContinue Reading
Chengalpattu, June 14, 2020: Unidentified miscreants set ablaze a church on June 13 night in Tamil Nadu’s Chengalpattu district. The building belongs to the ‘Church of True Peace,’ a Pentecostal group led by Pastor Ramesh Jebraj, who is visually challenged from birth. The pastor told Persecution Relief that the attackContinue Reading
Denver, June 14, 2020: Peyton and Connor Plessala are brothers from Mobile, Alabama. They’re 18 months— one school grade— apart. Despite the occasional competitiveness and squabbles that many brothers experience growing up, they’ve always been best buds. “We’re closer than best friends,” Connor, 25, told Catholic News Agency. As youngContinue Reading
Rome, June 13, 2020: Venerable Carlo Acutis, an Italian teenager and computer programmer who died in 2006, will be beatified October 10 in Assisi, Italy. “The joy we have long awaited finally has a date,” Archbishop Domenico Sorrentino of Assisi said in a statement June 13. The beatification will takeContinue Reading
Kolkata, June 13, 2020: Churches under the Calcutta diocese of the Church of North India (CNI) will allow a maximum of 25 people to enter at a time, but not without a mask, Reverend Paritosh Canning, bishop of the Calcutta diocese of the CNI, said in a letter addressed toContinue Reading
By Albert Thyrniang Shillong, June 13, 2020: The US is reeling under nationwide protests sparked off by the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer who pinned the already handcuffed 46-year-old black man for 8 Minutes and 46 seconds on his neck. Viral videos of the ‘murder’ areContinue Reading
By Mohammed Junaid New Delhi, June 12, 2020: Ompal Singh ended his life on June 4 allegedly over the delay in payment for his sugarcane dues. The death of the 50-year-old farmer from Muzaffarnagar, sugarcane belt of Uttar Pradesh, has triggered protests in the area, but like other farmer suicides,Continue Reading
By Carl Hoover Waco, June 12, 2020: In her final two months as chaplain for Ascension Providence Park-St. Catherine’s in Waco, the United States, Sister Sini Paul — Sister Sini to almost everyone who entered her circle of warmth — found her ministry undergoing major changes. A lockdown for residentsContinue Reading
By Arun Kumar June 12, 2020: Amid fresh US criticism of the state of religious freedom in the country, India has justified denial of visas to teams from a bipartisan US body saying it had no locus standi on these issues. The US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) hadContinue Reading
