New Delhi, June 2, 2020: Prominent leaders from Opposition parties have condemned the arrests of scholars and activists amid the ongoing Covid-19 lockdown. During an online news conference on June 1, the leaders supported those scholars and demanded that the government inquire into the real culprits who spread hate speechContinue Reading
By Gagan Pal Gandhinagar (Odisha), June 02, 2020: Residents of a remote village in Odisha joined as the June 2 national mourning in memory of migrant laborers who lost their lives during the lockdown. “We were invited to mourn and lament the loss of our brothers and sisters. As peopleContinue Reading
New Delhi, June 2, 2020: A mob on June 2 disrupted the funeral of a Covid-19 victim and forced his family members to flee with the half-burnt body, prompting intervention by the administration which later ensured the cremation at another place as per protocol. A 72-year-old man, native of theContinue Reading
New Delhi, June 2, 2020: Jessica Lal killer Manu Sharma, who was serving a life term in one of the most high-profile crimes in India, has been freed early from prison. He was released on June 1 along with 18 other prisoners from Delhi’s Tihar Jail. Delhi Lieutenant Governor AnilContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Secunderabad, June 1, 2020: The Catholic Health Association of India (CHAI), a network of Catholic hospitals and healthcare centers across the country, plans to provide food kits to 1,000 families for six months. As part of socioeconomic support through its member institutions, CHAI is gearing upContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Ranchi, June 1, 2020: The bishops of Ranchi have written to Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren to treat public worship as essential services. Archbishop Felix Toppo and Auxiliary Bishop Theodore Mascarenhas requested the chief minister to request the federal government the church’s proposal to resume publicContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Chennai, June 1, 2020: Father Pascal Petrus of Archdiocese of Madras-Mylapore is the first death of a priest from coronavirus in Tamil Nadu. He was 70. Father Petrus, the parish priest of Choolai, died at 7 pm on May 30 in Tamil Nadu Government Multi-Super-Specialty Hospital,Continue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Indore, June 1, 2020: All Christian denominations in India came together to pray for their nation on May 31, the feast of Pentecost. Members of various churches all over India met in churches, homes and wherever they were for the ‘Prayer of Hope’ during the coronavirusContinue Reading
By Sujata Jena Bhubaneswar, May 31, 2020: The Right to Food (RTF) Campaign India plans to observe June 1 as “the National Day of Mourning” in memory of those who lost their lives because of reasons linked to the lockdown. Representatives of the campaign from Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Jharkhand, OdishaContinue Reading
Mumbai, May 29, 2020: The situation generated by Covid-19 in India remains worrying. The country is currently in tenth place worldwide for infections, with over 158,000 cases recorded, but there are fears that it can quickly climb this sad ranking to second place, after the United States. Many internal IndianContinue Reading
