Colombo, April 21, 2019: At least 207 people were killed and more than 450 wounded on April 21 when eight explosions hit churches and hotels in and around the Sri Lankan capital of Colombo. Sri Lanka declared curfew after the eighth blast was reported in Colombo. A while earlier, theContinue Reading
By Matters India reporter Rome, April 19, 2019: Pope Francis has appointed a Salesian nun as a State Councilor to Vatican City State. Sister Alessandra Smerilli, a member of the Daughter of Mary Help of Christians, is a professor of political economy at the Pontifical Faculty of Educational Sciences “Auxilium.”Continue Reading
By Bill Gates Can goats empower women? In one of the poorest areas of India, they already are. This is thanks to a new team of health workers who are training rural women how to gain financial independence by raising healthier goats. The health workers are goat nurses known asContinue Reading
By Apoorvanand New Delhi, April 19, 2019: When I left home the other day and made the short walk to the faculty building where I teach, the roads were strangely calm. Not seeing the usual morning jostle between e-rickshaws, I felt something must be amiss. The only sound was theContinue Reading
By Nirmala Carvalho Mumbai, April 19, 2019: Catholics in Mumbai reflected on the abuse scandal facing the Church during a Via Crucis in the western Indian city’s historically-Christian Bandra neighborhood. More than a thousand people attended the event at St. Andrew’s College, which focused on the “Scandals of the Cross.”Continue Reading
Johannesburg, April 19, 2019: Thirteen people were killed and at least 16 were wounded when the roof of a church collapsed during Maundy Thursday Mass in South Africa. The accident happened on April 18 evening in the town of Dlangubo, north of Durban, an eastern city in South Africa. HeavyContinue Reading
By Felix Anthony Tezu, April 17, 2019: Jeremai had never missed an occasion to denounce Christ and Christians. Now as Jeremiah Krong, the Mishmi tribal woman is an ardent preacher of Jesus as the savior. Thereby hangs the tale of Arunachal Pradesh’s modern day Saint Paul. “I was a stony-heartedContinue Reading
By D Solomon Gumla, April 18, 2019: A fact-finding team that probed the lynching of Christian Adivasis in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand has questioned the local police’s inaction and opposition parties’ silence. “The actions of the local police raise several questions. While the victims kept saying that theyContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Rome, April 18, 2019: Priests and nuns from Korea living in Rome gathered at the Gregorian University Chapel on April 16 to remember the 304 victims of a ship accident in Korea five years ago. The Korean ambassador to the Vatican and his wife were amongContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Rome, April 18, 2019: “Baptized and sent: The Church of Christ on Mission in the World,” is the theme announced by Pope Francis on Mission Sunday 2018 to commemorate the Centenary of the Promulgation of the Apostolic letter Maximum Illud by Pope Benedict XV in 2019.Continue Reading
