By Matters India Reporter Periyanayagi, April 21, 2020: Kannapiran, a 55-years beggar and a Hindu by birth, never knew, from where he would get his next meal amid the nationwide lockdown imposed due to containing the spread of COVID-19. “We do not have anything to eat. Since we do notContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kolkata, April 21, 2020: St. Xavier’s University, Kolkata (SXUK) reached out to the neighborhood villages around the University where its students go for social outreach programmes and distributed food items – rice, dal, potatoes, and soybeans – to 300 families on April 19 and 20. TheContinue Reading
Bihar Sharif, April 20, 2020: A court in Bihar’s Nalanda district has pardoned a 16-year-old boy, detained for snatching a woman’s purse, after it was found that the accused had stolen to feed his brother and mentally-challenged mother, who were hungry for several days due to the nationwide lockdown. JuvenileContinue Reading
New Delhi, April 20, 2020: The National Commission for Women, a federal body, has sought stern action against a hospital in Jharkhand that reportedly turned away a pregnant woman after accusing her of spreading coronavirus. The hospital allegedly made the woman to clean up blood that led her losing theContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kottayam, April 20, 2020: Pope Francis and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi were among dignitaries “seen” at a meeting conducted at a village church in Kerala’s Kottayam district. However, none of them was present in person at the mock meeting held after Sunday Mass on AprilContinue Reading
Guwahati, April 19, 2020: A group of tribals was seen in a video with a 12-feet-long King Cobra that they killed for a feast in Arunachal Pradesh. In the video, shared widely on social media, three men carrying the snake’s carcass were heard claiming that they had killed the reptileContinue Reading
New Delhi, April 19, 2020: Bangla Sahib Gurudwara, at the heart of the national capital, was lit up April 19 evening as a gesture to extend hope and solidarity to the “coronavirus warriors.” The gesture was seen as a bid to commend the selfless services of the people who areContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Siliguri, April 18, 2020: The Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate (Nirmala Sisters) have been distributing relief goods to poor people affected by the current lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic in and round of Siliguri, a city in the northeast of Indian state of West BengalContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Muktsar, April 17, 2020: Catholics in a Punjab city have taken the lead to help the poor and needy during the nationwide lockdown On April 17, the top police officer of Muktsar district launched a Church project to distribute 10,000 milk packets and vitamin tablets toContinue Reading
By Thomas Scaria Mangaluru, April 15, 2020: Apostolic Carmel nuns are among several Catholic religious communities in India involved in feeding those affected by the nationwide lockdown on account of Covid-19 pandemic. Carmel sisters associated with St. Agnes College, led by their superior Sister Maria Roopa, now feed hundreds ofContinue Reading
