By Matters India Reporter Geneva, March 28, 2020: The World Council of Churches (WCC) and Regional Ecumenical Organizations (REOs) have affirmed the urgency of standing together to protect life amid the COVID-19 pandemic. All regions in the ecumenical movement around the world, including the Christian Conference of Asia (CCA), issuedContinue Reading
Vatican City, March 28, 2020: Given below is the full text of Pope Francis’ address during the extraordinary Urbi et Orbi blessing he delivered on March 27 while praying for an end of the coronavirus. “When evening had come” (Mk 4:35). The Gospel passage we have just heard begins likeContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Varanasi, March 28, 2020: Several Church groups in Varanasi are engaged in a massive campaign to save the poor from starvation during the 21-day nationwide lockdown imposed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to contain the spread of coronavirus. Leading the campaign that began on March 25Continue Reading
Chennai, March 28, 2020: A 35-year-old man placed under home quarantine amid the COVID-19 pandemic has been charged with killing a woman at a village in Tamil Nadu. The man, who quarantined after his return from Sri Lanka, ran out of his house naked and bit the 80-year-old woman inContinue Reading
Agra, March 28, 2020: A 39-year-old man on March 28 died in Agra after walking for about 200 km while on his way to his village in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. f Identified as Ranveer Singh, the father of three and resident of Badfra village in MorenaContinue Reading
Hong Kong, March 28, 2020: An Irish missionary priest, Father Michael Cuddigan of the Society of St. Columban, says he would prefer to die rather than leave the faithful in Hong Kong despite the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic. “Like all missionaries, I’ve been through my dangerous moments in the past, soContinue Reading
From healing souls to healing bodies, this priest is doing everything he can to help his flockContinue Reading
Matters India Reporter Manila, March 28, 2020 — A parish in northern Philippines has come up with a novel way to reach out to the needy poor of its neighbourhood in the locked down times of Covid 19. The parish commission on social concern has set up ‘Kindness Station.’ “ActiveContinue Reading
Matters India Reporter Mandaluyong City, the Philippines, March 27, 2020 — Alumni of Don Bosco Technical College Mandaluyong City came forward to back up volunteer initiatve of students who could not return to their far away homes duing the Covid 19 locked down and decided in stead to make faceContinue Reading
By Purushottam Nayak Daringbadi, March 28, 2020: Hundreds of Marian devotees in Odisha have mourned the death of a woman who was instrumental in setting up the only shrine dedicated to the Blessed Virgin in the eastern Indian state. Agnes Nayak of Partama, a member of the Our Lady ofContinue Reading
