New Delhi, June 2, 2020: Prominent leaders from Opposition parties have condemned the arrests of scholars and activists amid the ongoing Covid-19 lockdown. During an online news conference on June 1, the leaders supported those scholars and demanded that the government inquire into the real culprits who spread hate speechContinue Reading
By Gagan Pal Gandhinagar (Odisha), June 02, 2020: Residents of a remote village in Odisha joined as the June 2 national mourning in memory of migrant laborers who lost their lives during the lockdown. “We were invited to mourn and lament the loss of our brothers and sisters. As peopleContinue Reading
New Delhi, June 2, 2020: A mob on June 2 disrupted the funeral of a Covid-19 victim and forced his family members to flee with the half-burnt body, prompting intervention by the administration which later ensured the cremation at another place as per protocol. A 72-year-old man, native of theContinue Reading
Washington, D.C., June 2020: On May 30, protests in Chicago over the death of George Floyd turned vio, lent. As rioters targeted the city’s Magnificent Mile shopping district, shattering glass and raiding stores, they picked an unlikely target: A bookstore run by nuns. As the Daughters of St. Paul cleanedContinue Reading
New Delhi, June 2, 2020: Jessica Lal killer Manu Sharma, who was serving a life term in one of the most high-profile crimes in India, has been freed early from prison. He was released on June 1 along with 18 other prisoners from Delhi’s Tihar Jail. Delhi Lieutenant Governor AnilContinue Reading
By Dr George Jacob Kochi, June 2, 2020: Since late December 2019, the world has been at the mercy of a tiny microbe. The 120 nm-sized virus, SARS-CoV-2 that allegedly originated in the wet markets of China’s Wuhan has been wreaking global havoc, infecting and killing many through ‘pneumonia-like’ infectionContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, June 1, 2020: A group of Catholic women in India on June 1 urged the head of the Syro-Malankara Church to start an impartial enquiry into the mysterious death of a novice nun in a convent in Kerala, southern India. “In these times ofContinue Reading
Banke,June 2, 2020: A passenger bus with migrant workers who were returning from India crashed into a parked truck in southern Nepal, killing 11 people and injuring 22, officials said on June 1. The accident took place on May 31 in Banke district when the bus collided with a truckContinue Reading
By Jeemon Jacob Thiruvananthapuram, June 1, 2020: Father Ronal M. Varghese, a Latin Catholic priest and educator in Kollam in Kerala, has had an epiphany. “A Mass without community participation is like a man without a soul,” he says, describing the ritual he has been celebrating in private in aContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Secunderabad, June 1, 2020: The Catholic Health Association of India (CHAI), a network of Catholic hospitals and healthcare centers across the country, plans to provide food kits to 1,000 families for six months. As part of socioeconomic support through its member institutions, CHAI is gearing upContinue Reading
