Yangon: Here is the text of the first interview Cardinal Charles Muango Bo, head of the Catholic Church in Myanmar, gave to British Broadcasting Corporation of London after the military coup in his country on February 1. Dear BBC I, Cardinal Charles Maung Bo, the Archbishop of Yangon, Myanmar willinglyContinue Reading
By SAMYA KULLAB Baghdad: The story of Doha Sabah Abdallah’s personal tragedy and loss deeply resonated with Pope Francis during his historic visit last weekend to the northern Iraqi town of Qaraqosh, once devastated by Islamic State group militants. Back in 2014, her son’s death alerted the town’s Christian communityContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi: Dalit groups such as the National Council of Dalit Christians have been demanding human dignity and equality within the Church. On March 10, the council urged Pope Francis to create a separate ritual Church for Dalit Catholics to end their centuries-old discrimination. Council coordinatorContinue Reading
By Mohua Das Mumbai: When a Mumbai couple found themselves a woman qazi to officiate at their nikah two years ago, it was a first for Darul Uloom-e-Niswan established in 2016 by the Bharatiya Muslim Mahila Andolan to produce a steady stream of women qazis, previously unheard of in India.Continue Reading
By Karan Deep Singh Ballabgarh: In late November, an urgent email popped up in the inbox of Hindustan Syringes and Medical Devices, one of the world’s largest syringe makers. It was from UNICEF, the United Nations agency for children, and it was desperately seeking syringes. Not just any would do.Continue Reading
By Peerzada Ummer, LiCAS News Reporter Renuka Singh, a 35-year-old housewife from India’s northern state of Haryana, vividly remembers the ordeal she experienced when she ran away from her in-laws’ house with one of her daughters. Married for four years, Renuka said she was subjected to extreme abuse from herContinue Reading
Baghdad: When Pope Francis visits Iraq from March 5 to 8, he will meet only the scant remains of a Christian community of two millennia that has been hollowed-out by two past violent decades. After first settling in the fertile plains of Nineveh province before heading for the busy boulevardsContinue Reading
By Patrick Egwu Bodo: Simon Ayafa has witnessed oil pollution in the Niger Delta region since he was 15. Now, at 35, he feels the region has been made inhabitable by decades of oil spills. “You to go the stream to fetch water and you get oil,” said Ayafa, whoContinue Reading
By Jeffrey Gettleman and Suhasini Raj New Delhi: Indian students have been hitting the books hard in preparation for a big test on cows, reading that India’s cows have more emotions than foreign ones, and that their humps have special powers. As part of a new optional bovine curriculum, pushedContinue Reading
By Suwathy V Coimbatore: Rajalakshmi, a middle-aged woman, and her husband have to walk several miles from their home to their farm in Kallar in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Kallar is a village settlement located in Anaimalai (Elephant mountains). The settlement is populated by tribals. The coupleContinue Reading
