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
New Delhi, July 30, 2020: The number of victims of trafficking has gone up during the coronavirus pandemic, says a joint statement issued by two Christian organization on the occasion of the World Day against Trafficking in Persons that falls on July 30. Caritas Internationalis and Christian Organisation Against TraffickingContinue Reading
Vatican City, July 29, 2020: As governments and world leaders struggle to contain the coronavirus pandemic, they must also work harder to protect victims of human trafficking, said the Vatican-based international network of Catholic charities. Insufficient attention “was paid on the collateral damage of the ongoing pandemic, especially on migrantsContinue Reading
Beijing, July 29, 2020: Hackers linked to the Chinese government have infiltrated Vatican computer networks, including the Roman Catholic Church’s Hong Kong-based representative, a US firm that tracks state-backed cyberattacks said on July 29. It said the attacks began in May. The Vatican and Beijing were expected to engage inContinue Reading
Thiruvananthapuram, July 29,2020: An assortment of spices grown in Kerala have been spreading their aroma, and fame, in far-off lands for centuries now. And the latest to fall for their taste and smell is a couple based in distant Ireland, who has used organically grown spices to flavour up aContinue Reading
Manila, July 27, 2020: Ahead of a major speech by President Rodrigo Duterte, Church leaders in the Philippines are calling for an end to “intimidation and fear” in the country. Duterte was scheduled to give his annual State of the Nation Address (SONA) on July 27. This year’s speech comesContinue Reading
