By Sujata Jena Gopalpur-on-Sea, Feb 21, 2020: A group of 35 nuns and priests who represent the congregation of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and Mary working in Asia met together in Gopalpur, Odisha, Eastern India, to plan out their priorities for the mission. The Feb 5-10 meeting vowed toContinue Reading
Thiruvananthapuram, Feb. 21, 2020: An aided school in Thiruvananthapuram city, Kerala, allegedly insisted on revealing the caste and religion of a child for giving admission in first-standard. St. Mary’s Higher Secondary School at Pattom, which is among the largest schools in Asia in terms of students’ strength, has been caughtContinue Reading
Thiruvananthapuram, Feb. 21, 2020: Another nun from Kerala on Feb. 21 accused Bishop Franco Mulakkal of sexual harassment, a day before a court in Kottayam is slated to hear his petition to be discharged of alleged rape of a religious woman. In her statement to the police, the nun, aContinue Reading
New Delhi, Feb.21, 2020: For Dina M. Siddiqi, a professor of anthropology at New York University, the women of Shaheen Bagh have changed who speaks for Muslims in India. “What has really been undermined is going to the usual guys about what Muslims think in India and what they prioritise,”Continue Reading
Coimbatore, Feb 20, 2020: At least 20 people were killed and several injured on February 20 when a Volvo bus of the Kerala State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) on its way to Ernakulam from Bengaluru collided with a lorry at Avinashi in Tamil Nadu. According to preliminary reports, the incidentContinue Reading
By Nazish Hussain Ranchi, Feb 20, 2020: “What has gone so bad that you are you taking to streets,” Tara Bua asks her employer Shagufta Yasmeen in Hindi. Tara, a middle-aged housemaid at Shafugta’s home in Ranchi is oblivious about the ongoing protests across India against the Citizenship Amendment ActContinue Reading
By Anis Ansari Lucknow, Feb 20, 2020: The unprecedented wave of nationwide protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and National Register of Citizens (NRC) and the National Population Register (NPR) has shown unthinkable secular unity at a time when the Centre was trying to extend the infamous ‘divide andContinue Reading
By Stan Swamy Dumka, Feb 20, 2020: The second half of 2019 (July – December) was both a very trying but sobering experience for me. The Jharkhand police were after me and I was after the police. The difference was the police acted illegally and I acted legally. Issue ofContinue Reading
Rome, Feb 20, 2020: While the Eastern Catholic churches have different liturgies that highlight centuries-old cultural and religious traditions, they all remain united in their commitment to serve Christ and his church, said Bishop Jacob Angadiath of the Syro-Malabar Catholic Eparchy of St. Thomas of Chicago. Bishop Angadiath told CatholicContinue Reading
Geneva, Switzerland, Feb. 20, 2020″ The first Catholic Mass in nearly five hundred years will be celebrated at a cathedral in Geneva later this month. Mass will be said in the Cathedral of Saint-Pierre de Genève on Feb. 29, in a decision announced by the Diocese of Lausanne, Geneva andContinue Reading
