Bhopal, March, 26,2020: Tribal hamlets in Chhattisgarh’s Bastar have taken their own steps to ensure the safety of their communities during the coronavirus outbreak. The villagers have made personal protective equipment such as masks made from palm leaves. They are also not stepping out from their homes to fight COVID-19.Continue Reading
By chhotebhai Kanpur, March 26, 2020: “God has fled from Mecca and the Vatican…Why donate to religious places when they have closed their doors to us in our time of need?. At last my dream is realised, of spirituality without religion.” Provocative statements in the light of the Coronavirus! ShouldContinue Reading
By Varghese Alengaden Indore, March 26, 2020: Covid 19, which started in Wuhan, China, in December 2019, has turned into an unprecedented pandemic which has hit 196 countries killing more than 20,000 and infecting 450,000 people. Without visa this deadly virus has entered small and big countries killing hundreds everywhere.Continue Reading
Gambella, March 26, 2020: The global coronavirus pandemic has claimed the first Catholic prelate, Bishop Angelo Moreschi, an Italian Salesian missionary in Ethiopia. The 67-year-old leader of Ethiopia’s Apostolic Vicariate of Gambella died on March 25 in the Italian city of Brescia, in the Lombardy region that has become theContinue Reading
New Delhi, March 25, 2020: The nationwide lockdown is a God given opportunity to wage a spiritual war against coronavirus and other evils in the world, says a leading Catholic charismatic retreat preacher. “We should accept the orders of our rulers with hope. Nothing happens in the world without God’sContinue Reading
By M L Satyan Bengaluru, March 25, 2020: A big shock was waiting for the people of India on March 24 evening. Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced about the “National Total Lockdown” from the midnight of March 24 to April 14. Modi in his 26-minute speech mentioned about the allocationContinue Reading
By M L Satyan Bengaluru, March 25, 2020: Many people in Bengaluru got a shock on March 24 when the headline in the daily newspaper read: “In Karnataka curfew extended till the midnight of 31st March.” The state government had made no prior announcement about this. The news also saidContinue Reading
By Felix Anthony Miao, March 25, 2020: Christians in a remote corner of the eastern Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh on March 25 responded to Pope Francis’ universal prayer appeal. In the wake of the pandemic coronavirus outbreak, the Pope had appealed Catholics over the world to pray the ‘OurContinue Reading
By Jessy Joseph New Delhi, March 25, 2020: A Catholic priest, who has won awards for revolutionizing the healthcare scenario in Maharashtra, now awaits the Vatican response to his appeal against dismissal from a Kerala-based religious congregation. The Missionary Congregation of Blessed Sacrament (MCBS) superior general Father Joseph Maleparampil throughContinue Reading
Matters India Reporter Hong Kong, March 25, 2020 — Four groups of Salesian Family in China province has volunteered to help the Salesian Family members in Italy to fight Covid-19 pandemic. The Vicar of the Rector Major, Fr. Stefano Martoglio has directed all ‘benefactors’ to the pandemic epicenter Milan inContinue Reading
