By Marielle Lucenio, LiCAS.News Basilian, June 1, 2020: He sold fish to help parishioners build their church a few years ago. Now, he’s doing it again — this time to help the poorest of the poor in his parish in southern Philippines. Father Joel Silagpo serves the San Antonio deContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Ranchi, June 1, 2020: The bishops of Ranchi have written to Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren to treat public worship as essential services. Archbishop Felix Toppo and Auxiliary Bishop Theodore Mascarenhas requested the chief minister to request the federal government the church’s proposal to resume publicContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Chennai, June 1, 2020: Father Pascal Petrus of Archdiocese of Madras-Mylapore is the first death of a priest from coronavirus in Tamil Nadu. He was 70. Father Petrus, the parish priest of Choolai, died at 7 pm on May 30 in Tamil Nadu Government Multi-Super-Specialty Hospital,Continue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Indore, June 1, 2020: All Christian denominations in India came together to pray for their nation on May 31, the feast of Pentecost. Members of various churches all over India met in churches, homes and wherever they were for the ‘Prayer of Hope’ during the coronavirusContinue Reading
By Giovanna Dell’Orto Milan, June 1, 2020: When coronavirus struck inside Europe’s largest diocesan seminary, it upended the intense educational routine and spurred soul-searching among the nearly 130 young men studying to become Catholic priests. At Seminario di Milano in northern Italy, which has been preparing clergy since the mid-1500s,Continue Reading
By David Adams Geneva, June 1, 2020: The World Council of Churches (WCC) has rejected “the brutality of both violence and racial injustice” in relation to the recent killing of an African-American and subsequent unrest rocking the United States. “As part of our Christian understanding and our witness in theContinue Reading
By Purushottam Nayak Sundargarh, May 31, 2020: As India went into a lockdown to contain the coronavirus Odisha’s doctor-turned Catholic priest is busy attending to people’s spiritual and health needs. “When you serve others, you are doing it for Christ,” Father Valerian Tigga told Matters India on May 30 overContinue Reading
By Sujata Jena Bhubaneswar, May 31, 2020: The Right to Food (RTF) Campaign India plans to observe June 1 as “the National Day of Mourning” in memory of those who lost their lives because of reasons linked to the lockdown. Representatives of the campaign from Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Jharkhand, OdishaContinue Reading
By Thomas Scaria Mangalore, May 31, 2020: A pioneering social work educator in southern India died on May 31 in Mangaluru, a coastal city of Karnataka state. She was 95. Olinda Pereira, a member of the Daughters of the Heart of Mary (DHM) congregation, was the key founder of theContinue Reading
London, May 29, 2020: Rajesh Gupta, an Indian-origin doctor working in the United Kingdom, was found dead in a hotel on May 25 where he was staying to protect his family from coronavirus. Gupta had gained medical qualifications from Jammu University in 1997, moved to the UK in 2006 andContinue Reading
