Vatican City, Aug 5, 2020: Pope Francis on August 5 called for prayers and a united effort to help Lebanon overcome the crisis stemming from a massive fire triggered a deadly explosion in Beirut, the capital. “Let us pray for the victims and their family members, and let us prayContinue Reading
Rome, August 5, 2020: After at least one explosion occurred at the ports of Beirut on August 4, a Maronite Catholic cardinal has said the local Church needs support to help the people of Lebanon recover from this disaster. “Beirut is a devastated city. A catastrophe struck there because ofContinue Reading
Beirut, August 5, 2020: A huge blast in Beirut has left 300,000 people homeless and caused damage across half of the city estimated to cost more than $3 billion, its governor told AFP on August 5. “I think there are between 250,000 and 300,000 people who are now without homes,”Continue Reading
Beirut, Aug 4, 2020: A massive explosion ripped through central Beirut on August 4, injuring hundreds of people and blowing out windows in buildings across the city. The blast near the port in the Lebanese capital sent up a huge mushroom cloud-shaped shockwave, flipping over cars and damaging buildings milesContinue Reading
North Carolina, August 4, 2020: A life-sized statue of the Rev. Billy Graham will be installed in the U.S. Capitol’s Statuary Hall collection sometime next year, replacing a statue of a white supremacist that both the state of North Carolina and the U.S. House want removed. In the last weekContinue Reading
By Victor Edwin SJ New Delhi, July 2, 2020: Maqbool Ahmed Siraj is a journalist based in Bangalore. He did his Master’s in Journalism from the University of Madras in 1978 and started his career from the Indian Express there. He has worked for several journals, news agencies and otherContinue Reading
New Delhi, Aug 2, 2020: While India continues to reel under Covid-19, a number of places that were once seen as the gold standard for pandemic responses are now also seeing surges in cases, as the coronavirus continues to spread around the world unabated. Australia’s hard-hit Victoria state on JulyContinue Reading
Faisalabad, July 31, 2020: A Christian mother in Pakistan has achieved a significant breakthrough in her struggle to win back her abducted 14-year-old daughter amid reports that she was being groomed to enter the sex industry. Hearings have been scheduled for August first week at Lahore High Court in theContinue Reading
Pantabangan, July 31, 2020: A 300-year-old town that was submerged to build a dam in the 1970s was visible again this week after drought caused the water to recede. The once-bustling Old Pantabangan town in Nueva Ecija province, the Philippines, was sunken and not seen for almost half-a-century. However, aContinue Reading
Vatican City, July 31, 2020: Christians in Pakistan can now connect even more deeply to their faith as the Church has redesigned an old radio service to launch a news program – the first of its kind in the country. The newly-unveiled Radio Veritas Asia (RVA) Urdu service was launchedContinue Reading
