Lunglei, July 7,2020: Taking a risk in dangerous times and also possibly making himself a target for social stigma, a 46-year-old man in Mizoram is winning the hearts of several Covid suspect patients as he took them home without charging a penny after they completed their institutional quarantine period, asContinue Reading
By Shanti Pulickal Berhampur, July 7, 2020: Prison ministry can be called a pilgrimage to the prison to meet Jesus, the condemned prisoner. I feel privileged to have been actively involved in this ministry since 2013. The journey had been difficult but it was a time of blessings, surprises, andContinue Reading
By M K George SJ Rome, July 6, 2020: It would be strange to hear that I had a blessed lockdown of solid four months in India from March 25 to July 1 — in all 14 weeks. I witnessed the best of human generosity; so too, the worst ofContinue Reading
By M L Satyan Bengaluru, July 5, 2020: The loss of human life in India has become a regular, common and a day-to-day affair. Untimely deaths of human beings, due to various reasons do not bother us much. It is increasingly being recognized that health outcomes are a result notContinue Reading
By Dr. George Jacob Kochi, July 5, 2020: It’s 4:26 pm. I am at my appointed station in the cold environs of the ICU I work in. Right over my head is the AC blower. It almost draws a parallel between my not-so-comfortable situation and that of a dressed broilerContinue Reading
By chhotebhai Kanpur, July 3, 2020: During the Second World War this term referred to Japanese pilots who went on suicidal missions, where death was certain. The Kamikaze pilots flew their bomb-laden aircraft straight into enemy targets. Then we had the LTTE suicide bombers, like the one that assassinated formerContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, July 2, 2020: The death of Father Robert Astorino has created a vacuum in me and I feel orphaned. Father Bob, as we called him, was my guru in professional journalism and mentor in life. I saw Maryknoll Father Bob first time at the conferenceContinue Reading
By Archbishop Lawrence Saldanha Toronto, June 29, 2020: Here is a tribute from Archbishop Emeritus Lawrence Saldanha of Lahore, who was associated with Father Bob Astorino, founder editor and editor of Union of Catholic Asian News, who died on June 24 in a hospital in New York. I salute theContinue Reading
By F. M. Britto Chhattisgarh, June 28, 2020: It was at a SAR (South Asian Religious) News reporters’ training in New Delhi a young participant informed me, “Why don’t you also join UCAN? They are very professional. The well-edited news goes all over the world and they also pay veryContinue Reading
By M L Satyan Bengaluru, June 28, 2020: I am doing this write-up with mixed feelings like shock, worry, sadness, fear, anger, anxiety, helplessness and hopelessness. Of late we have been continuously disturbed by news about untimely deaths of migrant workers; judicial/police custodial deaths/murders of innocent people; accidental (road, train,Continue Reading
