By Santosh Digal Manila, April 29, 2020: An Indian Vincentian priest is left alone in a major seminary in Ethiopia, Africa, due to the COVID-19 lockdown. “I was supposed to return to my province, India, by the end of June after completing my classes in Philosophy and theological institute. However,Continue Reading
By F M Britto Raipur, April 29, 2020: The women of a village in Chhattisgarh have written letters to their chief minister for moratorium of alcohol in the state even after the lockdown is lifted. Initiated by their sarpanch (village council chief) Name Bai, a women, nearly 500 women inContinue Reading
By Matters India New Delhi, April 29, 2020: Father Michael Boniface, a priest of Simla-Chandigarh diocese, died of a massive heart attack in a remote mission state in Haryana state. He was 42. “He died around 9:30 last night. The death of such a young priest is a great lossContinue Reading
New Delhi, April 26, 2020: India on April 28 rejected as misrepresentation a report of a bipartisan US commission mandated to monitor religious freedom globally. Observing that religious minorities are under increasing assault in India, the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF)’s annual report placed the country inContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Mumbai, April 28, 2020: Cardinal Oswald Gracias, Archbishop of Bombay, has urged his priests to pay full salaries of March and April to those working in archdiocesan institutions. “After consulting our bishops and the Finance Office, I am directing that the March and April salaries beContinue Reading
New York, April 28, 2020: The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom is urging that the State Department add India to its list of nations with uniquely poor records on protecting freedom to worship – while proposing to remove Sudan and Uzbekistan from that list. The bipartisan commission, created inContinue Reading
By Gilda Rose Kalathil Penang, April 28, 2020: We are in lockdown. And from day 1, we have been flooded with courses and up-gradation of skills that push us to make the best of the situation. There is all this input (along with the continuous influx of news about theContinue Reading
By Purushottam Nayak Jharsuguda, April 28, 2020: A differently-abled woman in Odisha has won praises when she volunteered to donate blood to ease shortage during the nationwide lockdown. “My blood can solve the shortage at least a bit in the lockdown time,” Sarajini Sahoo said after donating blood on AprilContinue Reading
Bonn, April 28′ 2020: Catholic bishops in Germany are bracing for a major drop in church taxation revenues as a result of the coronavirus crisis, reported the German Catholic news agency, KNA. In Germany, wage-earners who declare membership to a religious faith pay a church tax deducted from their wagesContinue Reading
Vishnu Makhijani New Delhi, April 27, 2020: Even as tourism, mining, and real estate take center-stage in the coronavirus-triggered lockdown in Goa, a scholarly new book sheds light on the rapid spread of Pentecostal-Charismatic Christianity. Dubbed the world’s fastest-growing movement, the New Religious Movements (NRMs) co-exist in a state whereContinue Reading
