Thiruvananthapuram, June 8,2020: Even as the number of Covid-19 cases is rising not just in Kerala, but across the country, taking cue of the lockdown norms that have been eased, temples are now being cleaned to open from Tuesday, but churches and mosques differ. According to the new norms, allContinue Reading
New York, June 10, 2020: The president of the U.N. General Assembly has said that world leaders will not be coming to New York for their annual gathering in late September for the first time in the 75-year history of the United Nations because of the Covid-19 pandemic. But TijjaniContinue Reading
Bengaluru, June 10, 2020: The Karnataka government on June 10 banned online education for children up to the fifth grade. The decision was taken by the Karnataka state Department of Primary and Secondary Education based on a report that recommended online classes only for children in higher grades. Several parentsContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, June 10, 2020: As many as 95.2 percent migrants have lost their means of livelihood because of the nationwide lockdown, reveals a rapid research conducted by Caritas India in 18 states in the country. The research also revealed that 28.7 percent migrants do notContinue Reading
Shillong, June 10, 2020: A case has been filed against a US aid worker for allegedly assaulting a doctor at a Covid-19 hospital in Meghalaya capital of Shillong. An official said on June 10 that Theodore Moallem also spat on hospital employees and ransacked the facility after he was takenContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, June 10, 2020: Archbishop Emeritus Vincent Michael Concessao of Delhi has been hospitalized with suspected coronavirus infection. The 83-year-old prelate was admitted in Delhi’s Holy Family Hospital on June 9 after he complained of breathlessness and fever, sources in the archdiocese told Matters India.Continue Reading
By Varghese Alengaden Indore, June 10, 2020: I was delighted to read the Matters India report about Pope Francis calling Bishop Mark Seitz of El Paso, Texas, on June 3. The US bishop had joined a demonstration against racial discrimination to pray for George Floyd, an African-American killed by aContinue Reading
By Lissy Maruthanakuzhy Panaji, June 10, 2020: In March this year when the government announced the nationwide lockdown to fight the coronavirus, we were at the peak of summer. In the enforced lockdown we could do nothing but accept a life within our houses. The time at our disposal enlightenedContinue Reading
Rome, June 10, 2020: With police brutality in focus around the world, one priest says it is important to remember a policeman who might one day be declared a saint: Vice-Sergeant Salvo D’Acquisto, an Italian policeman who gave his life for those he had sworn to protect. During the SecondContinue Reading
Tarababa, June 10, 2020: A pastor has been gunned down with his pregnant wife as he worked on the family farm in Nigeria’s Taraba state, premierchristian.news reported June 9. Unidentified gunmen shot dead the Reverend Emmanuel Saba Bileya and his wife, Juliana, on June 1, the agency quoted a statementContinue Reading
