Vatican City, Apr 15, 2020: The Vatican has named a new director for its internal financial watchdog. In a statement April 15, the Holy See press office said that the Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin had appointed Giuseppe Schlitzer as director of the Financial Intelligence Authority (AIF). HeContinue Reading
By Isaac Harold Gomes Kolkata, April 15, 2020: On April 14, India Today TV conducted an interview with Yuval Noah Harari, Israeli futurist and a professor in the department of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The topic of discussion was global cooperation to combat Coronavirus and future epidemics.Continue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kochi, April 15, 2020: Two Catholic priests have been booked for violating lockdown norms in the past one week in Kerala. Police in Kochi on April 15 arrested Father Augustine Palayil, parish priest of Stella Maris Church in Wellington Island in Kerala’s commercial capital. The priestContinue Reading
By Thomas Scaria Mangaluru, April 15, 2020: Apostolic Carmel nuns are among several Catholic religious communities in India involved in feeding those affected by the nationwide lockdown on account of Covid-19 pandemic. Carmel sisters associated with St. Agnes College, led by their superior Sister Maria Roopa, now feed hundreds ofContinue Reading
By Stefan Gigacz On April 13, 1960, Cardinal Joseph Cardijn wrote to Pope John XXIII enclosing a 5,000 word note entitled “L’Eglise face au monde du travail” – “The Church and the world of work/labor.” These were the notes that the pontiff had requested to assist in the drafting ofContinue Reading
Washington, April 15, 2020: United States President Donald Trump has announced a suspension of US funding to the World Health Organization because he said it had covered up the seriousness of the COVID-19 outbreak in China before it spread around the world. Trump told a press conference on April 14Continue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Mumbai, April 14, 2020: A journalists union in Mumbai on April 14 expressed shock and dismay over massive job losses among media persons in India. “The mass retrenchments are patently illegal, grossly unethical and unbelievably inhuman, coming as they do at a time when all citizensContinue Reading
Washington, Apr 14, 2020: Terming as “reprehensible” the reports of food being denied to Hindu and Christian communities in Pakistan amid the coronavirus crisis, a US government organisation has urged Islamabad to ensure that food aid from distributing organisations is shared equally with all religious minorities in the country. “AsContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kolkata, April 14, 2020: The Catholic Church in West Bengal and Jharkhand has mourned the death of Father Richard V Joe, “the apostle of the Santhals.” Father Joe died on April 13, the 40th anniversary of his priestly ordination, at Pallam, his home village in theContinue Reading
New Delhi, April 14, 2020: The Delhi Commission For Women (DCW) helpline has seen a decline in the number of calls pertaining to domestic violence and crimes against women during the lockdown, the panel said April 14. Interestingly, the National Commission For Women (NCW) had said it observed a spikeContinue Reading
