Mosul, Iraq, Feb 20,2020: The rebuilding of a Syriac Catholic church in Mosul, Iraq, destroyed by ISIS will begin soon, the U.N.’s heritage agency (UNESCO) announced last week. Al-Tahera church, in the old city of Mosul, was severely damaged after ISIS invaded the city in June of 2014. Among numerousContinue Reading
By Madan Sual Singh Chennai, Feb 19, 2020: Social Workers’ Association for Staff and Students and Subalterns’ Alliance for Peace (SAP) organized a two-day “National Conference on Peace and Justice: A Subaltern Perspective. A subaltern is someone with a low ranking in a social, political, or other hierarchy. It canContinue Reading
CATHOLIC BISHOPS’ CONFERENCE OF INDIA XXXIV PLENARY ASSEMBLY, ST. JOHN’S NATIONAL ACADEMY OF HEALTH SCIENCES, BENGALURU, 13-19 FEBRUARY 2020 Dialogue: Path to Truth and Charity INTRODUCTION We, the 192 member Bishops of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India, assembled for our XXXIV Plenary Assembly at St. John’s National Academy ofContinue Reading
By C V Joseph Bengaluru, Feb 19, 2020: India’s Catholic bishops on February 19 concluded their 34 biennial plenary, asserting that none has the right to question patriotism of any citizen on subjective grounds. “We believe that patriotism is different from narrow and divisive cultural nationalism, which is radically differentContinue Reading
By Archana Masih Aurangabad, Feb 19, 2020: For the past 19 days, Nandini Kumari, 17, has been travelling through Bihar in the Jan Gan Man Yatra against the CAA-NPR-NRC, spearheaded by Communist Party of India leader Kanhaiya Kumar. “People go crazy seeing him,” the teenager says in Hindi over theContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Mumbai, Feb 18, 2020: Around 30 women, including five Catholic nuns, representing 21 organizations in Maharashtra have pressed Sharad Pawar, the chairperson of the state’s ruling coalition, to get a resolution passed in the assembly against some controversial laws on citizenship. The representatives working among theContinue Reading
New Delhi, Feb 18, 2020: The Delhi government plans to enroll 17,000 entrepreneurs as volunteers to help hone the “entrepreneurial mindset” among school students. Deputy Chief Minister and Education Minister Manish Sisodia on February 18 directed the Entrepreneurship Mindset Curriculum (EMC) to engage the volunteers. “We need to create aContinue Reading
Indianapolis, Feb 17, 2020: When Father John Hollowell went to Mayo Clinic for brain scans after what doctors thought was a stroke, he received a shocking diagnosis. The scans revealed that instead of stroke, he had a brain tumor. While it is a serious diagnosis, Hollowell, a priest of theContinue Reading
Vatican City, Feb. 18, 2020: Pope Francis has requested that priests in formation for the Holy See’s diplomatic service be required to spend one year in missionary work, the Vatican announced Monday. The pope has asked the change to go into effect for the 2020/2021 academic year. He called forContinue Reading
Beijing, Feb 18, 2020: A hospital director at the epicentre of China’s virus epidemic died Tuesday, state media said, the latest medical worker to fall victim to the new coronavirus spreading across the country. The COVID-19 virus, which is believed to have originated in Wuhan late last year, has infectedContinue Reading
