By Jacob Peenikaparambil Indore, May 4, 2020: The saga of migrant laborers taking risk to reach their homes somehow is reported in the media every day ever since lockdown was clamped all over India on March 25. On May 2, the Madhya Pradesh police found during a routine check upContinue Reading
By M L Satyan Bengaluru, May 4, 2020: The report on “Bishop Jacob Muricken’s plan of leaving the bishopric to lead an ascetic life” raises many questions: Leaving the bishopric to become an ascetic is purely a ‘personal decision.’ Why should others raise questions? Who are we to pass aContinue Reading
By Thomas Scaria Bangalore, May 4, 2020: As churches remain closed with no Masses, ward prayers, or feasts, many Catholic priests “stay at home,” obeying their bishops and government orders. “But is that priesthood?” asks Father George Kannanthanam, a Claretian social activist. According to him, the “self-accepted inaction” among priestsContinue Reading
WASHINGTON, D.C., May 3, 2020: Two separate polls show that Americans are relying more on their faith to help persevere through the coronavirus pandemic. The Pew Research Center, in a survey released April 30, showed that nearly one-fourth of all Americans say their faith has grown stronger during the pandemic,Continue Reading
Lagos, May 3,2020: A man claiming to have killed the murdered Nigerian seminarian Michael Nnadi has given an interview in which he says he executed the aspiring priest because he would not stop announcing the Christian faith in captivity. Mustapha Mohammed, who is currently in jail, gave a telephone interviewContinue Reading
Kochi, May 3, 2020: Sanskrit hymns, Christian prayers and Arabic chants were broadcast one after another through digital media on May 3, as major religious leaders came together for a joint prayer to overcome the Covid-19 pandemic. Leaders of almost all Christian denominations, Imams, Muftis, Hindu scholars, sadhus and sanyasisContinue Reading
By Suhasini Haidar New Delhi, May 3, 2020: The Indian government has unequivocally dismissed the US Commission of International Religious Freedom’s latest report, which ranks the country on the lowest grade of “Countries of Particular Concern.” The report cites the Citizenship (Amendment) Act and the proposed National Register for Citizens,Continue Reading
By Julio Ribeiro Mumbai, May 3, 2020: Locked down in my daughter’s home in Mumbai, I get to know what people are thinking and talking about when I speak to them on the telephone or by e-mail. And what they say is not pleasing to an old man’s ears! MyContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kansabel, May 3, 2020: A middle-aged woman wanted to hug Sister Annie Jesus Mary who was distributing relief packets in scorching heat in a remote hilly region of the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh. “Madam, thank you. Your compassion has satisfied our hunger. Indeed God hasContinue Reading
By Dr George Jacob Kochi, May 3, 2020: Ever since the first case of COVID-19 was reported in India on January 30 in a medical student who returned home to Kerala from China’s Wuhan, the Coronavirus has had the country by the scruff of her neck by infecting 39,980 andContinue Reading
