Kolkata, March 25, 2020: The Church of North India (CNI) on March 24 decided to offer part of its premises to the state government to set up quarantine facilities. “The church is ready to offer its premises to the state government to set up temporary quarantine facilities if there isContinue Reading
New Delhi, March 24, 2020: India has mounted the largest attempted lockdown yet in the coronavirus crisis, ordering 1.3 billion people to stay at home from midnight for three weeks to prevent a public health disaster. In a televised address on March 24 night, the prime minister, Narendra Modi, announcedContinue Reading
By Fr Cedric Prakash SJ Ahmedabad, March 24, 2020: Exactly forty years ago on March 24 Archbishop Oscar Romero was brutally gunned down, while he celebrated the Eucharist in his native El Salvador. As the world remembers and celebrates the memory of this great saint of our times, one isContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Thiruvananthapuram, March 24, 2020: Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has welcomed as a “morale booster” the Catholic Church’s offer of its healthcare institutions to the state to fight the coronavirus. “I am grateful to the Church for offering the needed help at this critical time,” VijayanContinue Reading
Bergamo, March 24, 2020: An Italian priest who gave a respirator to a younger coronavirus patient he did not know has died of the disease. Father Giuseppe Berardelli, 72, died in hospital in Lovere, Bergamo – one of the worst-hit cities in Italy. At least 50 Catholic priests have reportedlyContinue Reading
New Delhi, March 14, 2020: The Delhi Police on March 24 cleared the Shaheen Bagh protest site amid the coronavirus outbreak, bringing curtains down on the three-month-old agitation led by Muslim women against the contentious Citizenship Amendment Act. A total of nine protesters, including six women, were detained and takenContinue Reading
By Gilda Rose Kalathil Penang, March 24, 2020: What we are going through is no less than a war. People are fighting, dying, winning, losing, helping, backstabbing, clever, wicked, stupid, foolish, insistent, cooperating, manipulating and unsupportive. You name it, they are there. Just like war times but in the healthContinue Reading
By F. M. Britto Parsahi (Bana), March 24, 2020: It was very motherly of Asha Devi to express happiness when the four convicts, who had gang raped and brutally killed her beloved daughter, were finally hanged to death in Tihar jail in the early hours on March 20, 2020. ItContinue Reading
By James Martin New York, March 24, 2020: Last summer I underwent radiation treatment. And every time I passed through the doorway marked “Radiation Oncology,” my heart seemed to skip a beat. While I was in little danger (my tumor was benign, and, yes, one sometimes needs radiation for that),Continue Reading
Rome, Mar 23, 2020: In the past week alone, more than 3,000 people have died in Italy after contracting the coronavirus. Among the dead are at least 60 priests this month, according to local media reports. “I pray to the Holy Spirit to give us the gift of light andContinue Reading
