Kolkata, Aug 17, 2020: A nonagenarian Salesian priest has beaten Covid to go back home from hospital. Father Peter Vincent Lourdes, 94, even hoisted the Tricolour on August 15, the Independence Day, before leaving the hospital. Father Lourdes was diagnosed with Covid-19 in July-end. He was put in home isolationContinue Reading
Mumbai, Aug 17, 2020: The Maharashtra government has honored a Divine Word priest for exceptional service to nation-building. The western Indian state’s Disaster Management Department conferred the ‘Corona Warrior’ Award on Father Richard Quadros, director of Sarva Vikas Deep, a social service center at Mangaon in Raigad district on AugustContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, Aug 17, 2020: The Indian Catholic Press Association (ICPA) on August 17 mourned the death of Sister Caridad Paramundayil, the first woman to edit a major Catholic publication in the country. Sister Paramundayil died of a cardiac arrest earlier in the day at a hospitalContinue Reading
Kochi, Aug 17, 2020: The Kerala government took over a church in Mulanthuruthy in the wee hours on August 17 amid strong resistance by followers of the Jacobite church, as part of implementing a 2017 Supreme Court order granting possession of over 1,100 churches to the rival Orthodox faction, policeContinue Reading
Thiruvananthapuram, Aug 14, 2020: As many as 22 officials, who were engaged in plane crash rescue operation in Kerala have tested positive for coronavirus. “They were quarantined after the rescue operations at the plane crash site ended. Most of them were on location,” the medical officer of Malappuram district toldContinue Reading
New Delhi, Aug 14, 2020: A three-judge bench of the Supreme Court on August 14 found senior lawyer Prashant Bhushan guilty of contempt for his two tweets on Chief Justice of India SA Bobde and the apex court. Justices Arun Mishra, B R Gavai and Krishna Murari delivered the verdictContinue Reading
By Smriti Marak Ambassa, Aug 13, 2020: An NGO led by the Society of the Divine Word has joined civil society groups to help those affected by the lockdown in a district of the northeastern Indian state of Tripura. As coronavirus spread in Tripura, Oisho Bani Society (OBS) joining organizationsContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Hyderabad, Aug 13, 2020: A Hyderabad-based center for human rights is training domestic workers for alternative livelihood programs after they lost their livelihoods because of Covid-19. The Montfort Social Institute (MSI) is reaching out to more than 400 domestic workers, transgenders and the differently-abled to restartContinue Reading
Kochi, August 13, 2020: The Kerala High Court has directed the Ernakulam district collector to keep the Mulanthuruthy church locked. The order came on an appeal filed by the state government against a single judge’s directive asking the collector to take possession of the church and hand over it toContinue Reading
Guwahati, August 13, 2020: The death count due to the floods in Assam has risen to 110 while more than 56 lakh people have been affected by the deluge so far. The State Disaster Management Authority (SDMA) on Thursday informed that while 110 people have lost their lives, a totalContinue Reading
