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On September 12, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj wrote on Twitter: “I am happy to inform that Father Tom Uzhunnalil has been rescued.” The Catholic priest from Kottayam, Kerala, was abducted in March 2016 by gunmen who attacked a Missionaries of Charity home in Aden, Yemen, and killed 16 residents.Continue Reading

Woman’s crusade against rape, misogyny in India

By: Matters India

On: September 25, 2017

In: Features

Srishti Bakshi wants to make India a safer place for womenContinue Reading

Vrindavan widows find solace in blue-jacket volunteers

By: Matters India

On: September 22, 2017

In: Features

Vrindavan: Abandoned by her family, an elderly and wrinkled woman lies crumpled on a hospital bed here, maggots falling off one of her decaying hands. The Ramakrishna Mission Hospital says the woman was found on a street. She was in terrible agony when she was admitted. Every day, as nursesContinue Reading

Seva kitchen multiplies loaves in Nagpur hospitals

By: Matters India

On: September 20, 2017

In: Features

By Lissy Maruthanakuzhy Nagpur: A mother’s word can work miracles. Hundreds of people in Nagpur now vouch for that. Kushroo Poacha has provided food to thousands of patients and their relatives of a major hospital in Nagpur, central India, for more than two years. He does this to fulfill hisContinue Reading

Kerala ‘export’ on mission to world’s hotspots

By: Matters India

On: September 17, 2017

In: Features

Disney Tom Kochi: Despite brushes with captivity and death, priests from God’s Own Country continue to venture into remote, trouble-torn areas. At the Don Bosco Salesian House in Kochi, the vigil is over. Barefoot boys play basketball on the makeshift court in the premises and a tall, strapping priest brieflyContinue Reading