Dubai, 25 Mar : A Franciscan monk who gives away most of his earnings to the poor has been handed a prize for the world’s best teacher. Peter Tabichi won the $1 million (£760,000) Global Teacher Prize for 2019 on Saturday. The maths and physics teacher, who works at aContinue Reading
By Nirmala Carvalho Mumbai, March 25, 2019: A leading Asian cardinal says the world’s resources are at the mercy of a minuscule minority, and the “poor are doubly-condemned by an economy that favors the powerful and a carbon hegemony that destroys their livelihood.” Myanmar Cardinal Charles Bo, the president ofContinue Reading
Lahore, Mar. 20, 2019: A student stabbed a college professor to death on March 20 in eastern Pakistan, apparently upset over a planned party with women that he considered un-Islamic. Khalid Hameed, an English professor at the Government Sadiq Egerton College in Bahawalpur, was preparing for the farewell party whenContinue Reading
Fr Robin Gomes Vatican City, Mar. 20, 2019: With the worst water crisis hitting the Philippine capital in a decade, the Archbishop of Manila is urging for prayers for rain. “We are currently facing a water crisis. Experts reported that we are experiencing a mild El Nino,” wrote Cardinal LuisContinue Reading
Nairobi, Mar 19, 2019: — Government and aid agency officials sounded the alarm on March 19 after flights over a vast area of wreckage wrought by Cyclone Idai in Zimbabwe, Malawi and especially Mozambique spurred fears of a massive human toll. That toll is already in the hundreds across theContinue Reading
Paris, Mar. 19, 2019: Philippe Barbarin, the French Roman Catholic cardinal convicted of failing to report sexual abuse charges, said on Mar. 19 that Pope Francis had turned down his offer to resign but had suggested he stand aside “for a while”. Barbarin, who is appealing his guilty verdict, saidContinue Reading
London, March 19, 2019: Paul Burrell, Princess Diana’s former royal butler, revealed in his memoir that the late Princess of Wales told him that she found her mission in life in Calcutta in 1992. At the time, Princess Diana and Prince Charles had already separated. In the book “The WayContinue Reading
In Sri Lanka, the annual festival at St. Anthony’s Church in Katchatheevu island was attended by hundreds of Indian Catholic pilgrims from Tamil Nadu and nearby areas. The pilgrims on March 16 took bath and attended Mass conducted in both Tamil and Sinhala languages. The Tamil Mass was led byContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, March 16, 2019: The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India has expressed anguish and sadness at the massacre of Muslims in New Zealand. At least 49 people were killed and 20 seriously injured on March 15 in a hate-filled terror attack targeting two mosques inContinue Reading
By Don Bosco Onyalla Nairobi, March 16, 2019: A Catholic priest and a nun along with four Kenyans working with Catholic Relief Services were among the 157 victims of the recent Ethiopian Airlines crash. The Nairobi-bound plane, Boeing 737, crashed on March 10 near Ethiopia’s town of Bishoftu some sixContinue Reading
