Shillong: On September 28, the Missionary Sisters of Mary Help of Christians (MSMHC), the first indigenous congregation of northeastern India, will close a yearlong celebrations of the 125th birth anniversary of its founder Venerable Stephen Ferrando, a Salesian prelate. The year was launched on September 28, 2019, by current superiorContinue Reading
Thiruvalla: On the morning of May 7, Divya P. John, a 21-year-old novice with the Basilian Sisters near here, attended class as usual, a church spokesman says. But an hour later, around noon, her body was found in a well at the convent. Rescuers retrieved the body and bypassed aContinue Reading
By Jacob Mar Barnabas Aerath New Delhi, Sept 20, 2020: At 6:15 a.m. on May 1, the fifth anniversary of the inauguration of my eparchy, I went to the cathedral to celebrate Mass together with my priests and seminarians. I was surprised to see around 25 people at the gate.Continue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, Sept 20, 2020: Several Catholic groups in India have expressed relief after the Vatican removed its controversial envoy from the country. Pope Francis Aug. 29 suddenly transferred Archbishop Giambattista Diquattro, apostolic nuncio to India and Nepal, to Brazil amid accusations of inaction against allegedly corruptContinue Reading
By Frida Toppo Bishnupur, Sept 15, 2020: Aboung Kumar Gangmei of Manipur is worried as starvation stares at him. However, the 37-year-old father of three has no plans to go back to Bengaluru, a southern Indian city where he had worked as a waiter in a restaurant for eight years.Continue Reading
Gaya, Sept 13, 2020: A man has carved out a three-kilometre canal to take rainwater from nearby hills to fields of his village, Kothilawa in Lahthua area of Gaya in Bihar. “It took me 30 years to dig this canal which takes the water to a pond in the village,”Continue Reading
By Sowmiya Ashok Chennai, September 13, 2020: Pratik Mammode, a doctor, has spent much of the past year on the front lines of India’s fight against the coronavirus. Until recently, the 26-year-old junior resident doctor had been on Covid-19 duties, donning and doffing personal protective equipment day in, day outContinue Reading
By Stella Paul Hyderabad, Sept 12, 2020: Nobel Laureate Kailash Satyarthi warns of the danger that more than 1 million children could die, not because of the Covid-19 pandemic, but because of the economic crisis facing their families. In an exclusive interview with Inter Press Service, Satyarthi said that withoutContinue Reading
New Delhi, Sept 8, 2020: Schools across India have now been closed for six months due to Covid-19, but this means vastly different things for different people. For the child in urban Himachal Pradesh, where Internet penetration is higher than 70 percent it likely means online schooling, Zoom classes andContinue Reading
New Delhi, Sept 6, 2020: “When will you come home?” the daughters of doctor Ajit Jain would ask when they used to talk over call late at night. The nodal officer for novel coronavirus at the Rajiv Gandhi Super Specialty Hospital in Delhi has not been home for nearly fiveContinue Reading
