By Rina Chandran Bangkok, Oct. 24, 2019: Almost 2,000 informal settlements in Delhi are set to be legalised under a new law agreed by the government this week, which ministers said would give more than 4 million residents the right to own their homes in India’s capital. India’s cabinet thisContinue Reading
Rome, Italy, Oct 24, 2019: As the pastor of a parish in which many families lost a mother, father, or child in a bombing on Easter Sunday, Fr. Jude Raj Fernando has seen how healing from loss can be a long, difficult journey of faith. Fr. Fernando is the rectorContinue Reading
By Sean Barry, SJ The new Warner Brothers film Joker follows the story of Arthur Fleck, a man suffering from mental illness who loses his sense of identity and grows increasingly vindictive. Throughout the film, he suffers brutal violence at the hands and feet of people acting cruelly, whether promptedContinue Reading
By Poorvi Gupta Unpaid work follows women-at-work Women farmers are being over-burdened because men don’t take up household chores and now many productive roles are also being taken over by them in the absence of men if they migrate to urban spaces. It isn’t just the women in agriculture butContinue Reading
Mosul, Iraq, Oct 24: The United Arab Emirates is partnering with UNESCO to rebuild two Catholic churches in Mosul that were destroyed in 2014 by the Islamic State. The initiative will help rebuild Al-Tahera Church and Al-Saa’a Church. “Today’s signing is a pioneering partnership that sends a message of light,Continue Reading
By Kai Schultz and Hari Kumar Rothak, Oct 24, 2019: Diwali is the Hindu festival of light, and during the height of the celebrations in India each autumn, much of that illumination is coming from barely controlled explosions: the firecrackers, sparklers and other fireworks that millions here love to igniteContinue Reading
Daringbadi/ Chandahandi, Oct. 24, 2019: Hundreds of women along with various voluntary outfits went out on an awareness marathon against illegal liquor trade at Brhamarabadi panchyat under Daringibadi police station in Kandhamal district Tuesday. Illegal liquor trading is a major cause of worry for our society. So the NGOs andContinue Reading
Shillong, October 25, 2019: Meghalaya Chief Minister, Conrad K Sangma took the pain to walk all the way to his office at Secretariat after the funeral service of Arch Bishop of Shillong Archdiocese, late Rev. Dominic Jala on Oct. 23 evening. The official vehicle of the Chief Minister along withContinue Reading
By Don Aguiar. Mumbai, October 24, 2019: Let me first relate an anecdote to hdlp you decide if Christian Missionaries pose a conversion threat in today’s India. I spend some five months a year in the countryside in Raigad, Maharashtra, overseeing my plantations where I also own a bungalow. AContinue Reading
By Dominic Emmanuel Cycling by far is one of the common means that Westerners use as exercise. It was thus not surprising when last year someone in my church in Austria approached me about a new initiative called “Park & Pray.” “Oh! Sure. That is an attractive way of invitingContinue Reading
