By Vallari Sanzgiri Ranchi, Aug 20, 2020: A 30-year-old woman became the 12th woman to be killed after being branded as a witch this year in Jharkhand, eastern India. Geeta Devi was attacked by her relative Munshi Mahto along withsome 15 villagers on August 17 when she reached her in-law’sContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Mumbai, Aug 19, 2020: Cardinal Oswald Gracias has cautioned the priests of his Bombay archdiocese to not let their guard down as they have resumed pastoral activities as the administration has relaxed lockdown norms. The cardinal’s caution came in the wake of some priests succumbing toContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Bengaluru, Aug 19, 2020: As the number of coronavirus cases spike in the country, St. John’s Medical College, has now a special unit for treating Covid-19 patients. Archbishop Peter Machado of Bangalore on August 17 blessed and inaugurated the newly constructed and fully-equipped center that functionsContinue Reading
Jaipur, Aug. 19, 2020: As heavy rain washed away low-lying shanties and submerged cars in Jaipur August 14, the staff at the historic Albert Hall museum was busy in a different rescue operation. As water started filling the museum, housekeeping officials and guards hopped the stairs to the museum’s basementContinue Reading
By Jeffrey Gettleman and Suhasini Raj Chennai, Aug. 18, 2020: One of Senator Kamala Harris’s brightest childhood memories was walking down the beach hand in hand with her Indian grandfather. Her grandfather, P.V. Gopalan, had served for decades in the Indian government, and his ritual, nearly every morning, was toContinue Reading
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
