By Jessy Joseph New Delhi, June 2, 2020: A Christian NGO has moved to the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand, after serving lockdown victims in the National Capital Region. “Most of our benefactors are in Jharkhand and when the lockdown started our school children were denied one time meal aContinue Reading
By Marielle Lucenio, LiCAS.News Basilian, June 1, 2020: He sold fish to help parishioners build their church a few years ago. Now, he’s doing it again — this time to help the poorest of the poor in his parish in southern Philippines. Father Joel Silagpo serves the San Antonio deContinue Reading
By Purushottam Nayak Sundargarh, May 31, 2020: As India went into a lockdown to contain the coronavirus Odisha’s doctor-turned Catholic priest is busy attending to people’s spiritual and health needs. “When you serve others, you are doing it for Christ,” Father Valerian Tigga told Matters India on May 30 overContinue Reading
New Delhi, May 27, 2020: Two months Coronavirus lockdown have done what successive governments could not do in 25 years even with a budget of 50 billion rupees at their disposal: Clean up the Yamuna River. As industrial activity halted and other commercial activities slowed during the lockdown, the YamunaContinue Reading
By Anthony Swamy, SVD Mysore, May 23, 2020: Pope Francis has honored nurses and midwives, calling them “guardians of life” and “saints next door.” Here is the story of such a saint next door. “I never knew the nursing job is so holy until I came to work for theContinue Reading
By Kusum Arora Jalandhar, May 21, 2020: In early March, when the number of COVID-19 cases was yet to increase in India, a northeastern woman in Jalandhar heard a group of men shouting, “Go Corona, we will not ferry you.” Before she could understand what they were saying, they fledContinue Reading
By K P Sasi New Delhi, May 19, 2020: In December 2019, the UK-US based monitoring group Open Doors that publishes an annual World Watch List of 50 countries, ranked India 10th in the world where it is most dangerous to live as a Christian. The report states that politicalContinue Reading
Bengaluru, May 14, 2020: At 69, Abdul Majeed K Soudagar is among people the most vulnerable to the coronavirus, but service is still on top of his mind. Ignoring the risk to his health and his family, Soudagar, a resident of Bengaluru’s Neelasandra suburb, provides free transportation to the illContinue Reading
By Cyprian Ekka Ranchi, May 12, 2020: Sonia Gandhi on May 4 declared that Congress would bear the travel expenses of home-bound migrant workers, whom the federal and some stat governments were charging for the train and bus trips. This announcement rode on the public outrage that set counter agendaContinue Reading
By Jessy Joseph New Delhi, May 12, 2020: Dony Dennis does not know why his mother does not hug him anymore. “Mamma, don’t you love me as before? Am I not your little beloved son? When will you hug me again?” the 11-year-old has kept asking Rosamma Dennis since herContinue Reading
