By Frank Krishner Patna, April 11, 2020: Tonight, as hundreds of Catholics in Bihar at home and elsewhere, watch Archbishop William D’Souza SJ perform the traditional ritual dedication of the Pascal candle on their TVs, laptops or mobile phones, via the Newsnet YouTube channel, they will be bound together inContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, April 11, 2020: An international Christian concern has urged Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to release those imprisoned under “false conversion” charges, as a goodwill gesture at the time of Covid-19 pandemic “We request you to release all the prisoners who are in variousContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Mumbai, April 11, 2020: Cardinal Oswald Gracias, head of the Catholic Church in India, says every citizen has a moral obligation to adhere to the government’s guidelines during the national lockdown. “Whatever the government decides, we must observe what the government tells us. If we haveContinue Reading
Vatican City, April 11, 2020: “I am close, I am close to you all,” Pope Francis said on April 10, Good Friday, making a surprise call-in to a live Italian television program. “Good evening, Lorena. How are you?” the Pope said to the visibly surprised host of a religious showContinue Reading
By Varghese Alengaden Indore, April 10, 2020: Covid-19, an invisible microbe which originated in Wuhan, China, in mid-November 2019 has attacked over 198 countries in the world killing 88,528 people and infecting over 1,519,066. This invisible enemy has not spared even the most developed countries which have powerful armies andContinue Reading
By Lissy Maruthanakuzhy, Saji Thomas, Julian Das New Delhi, April 10, 2020: In India, a nationwide 21-day lockdown because of the COVID-19 pandemic has severely restricted the movements and activities of nuns of various congregations as well as their more than 1.37 billion countrymen since March 25. India accounts forContinue Reading
By M L Satyan Bengaluru, April 10, 2020: For a vast majority of the common people in India the words ‘social distancing’ are alien and it is not in their ethos. For ages, people have learned to live together as groups/communities. Due to coivd-19 pandemic situation the ‘forced’ social distancingContinue Reading
By Nirmala Carvalho Mumbai, April 10, 2020: Cardinal Oswald Gracias, Archbishop of Bombay, blessed the coronavirus-affected city with a relic of the Cross after the Good Friday service on April 10. The cardinal led the Way of the Cross in the Holy Name Cathedral at Nathalal Parekh Marg in Mumbai,Continue Reading
By Smitha George London, April 10, 2020: The COVID-19 death toll in United Kingdom has reached nearly 9,000. At least 17 workers in National Health Service have so far died from the coronavirus. Mother Teresa Sister Sienna, Indian doctors Hamza Pacheeri and Jitendra Rathod, nurse Beena George, and care workerContinue Reading
Matters India Reporter Darjeeling, April 10, 2020 — For almost 3 weeks now, Salesian College Sonada and its Siliguri Campus have been using on-line facility for teaching-learning as well as research. An on-line Longitudinal Study on the Attitudinal Changes to the Covid -19 lockdown both for students and faculty isContinue Reading
