By Purushottam Nayak Koraput: Panic has spread among Christians in an Odisha village after some 150 armed demolished a church under construction. “Out of fear we had to remain in one house to escape being attacked,” Debo Bhoi, one of the Christians in Bodoguda, a village in Koraput district, toldContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kochi: The Catholic Church has welcomed Kerala Chief Minister taking over the portfolio involving minorities’ welfare. Vijayan is the first chief minister to handle the department since its creation 13 years ago. The decision not to entrust the portfolio to ministers hailing from the minority communityContinue Reading
By Purushottam Nayak Rourkela: Religious priests and nuns have joined the diocese Rourkela in Odisha state to dispel fear and depression from Covid patients while treating their disease. “I find God’s compassionate care and service from the sisters, priests, doctors and nurses,” says Etwari Barla, a Covid patient in CatholicContinue Reading
By Sujata Jena Bhubaneswar: Veteran environmental activist Sunderlal Bahuguna died May 21 at All India Institute of Medical Sciences in Rishikesh. He was 94. Bahuguna was admitted to the hospital on May 8 after testing Covid-19 positive. According to the hospital director Ravikant, the nonagenarian leader died at 12:05 pm.Continue Reading
Irudhaya Jothi Kolkata: Father Stan Swamy on May 21 rejected a proposal to admit him in a hospital but demanded interim bail to return to his residence in Ranchi, eastern India. The 84-year Jesuit tribal activist made the demand during a video conference with the Bombay High Court from theContinue Reading
Patna: Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJP) leader Tejashwi Yadav on May 19 declared that he has set up a COVID Care Centre at his official bungalow and urged the Nitish Kumar government in Bihar to provide assistance for upgrade of the facilities available there. Mr Yadav, leader of the opposition inContinue Reading
Lucknow: An increasing number of members from the Christian community are now adopting the Hindu tradition of cremating the bodies. They are then taking the ashes in urns to the graveyard for entombment. “With the increasing number of deaths taking place in the second wave of the pandemic, land isContinue Reading
Chandigarh : Live-in relationships are socially and morally not acceptable, the Punjab and Haryana High Court recently observed while declining to grant protection to a couple seeking protection of their life. The petitioner couple — a 19-year-old woman from Uttar Pradesh and a 22-year-old man from Punjab — had movedContinue Reading
New Delhi: At least 13 people were killed in Gujarat as the severe cyclonic storm Tauktae entered Saurashtra region early May 18, whipping up winds close to 180 kmph. The cyclone has reduced in intensity and lay about 35 km west of Ahmedabad late in the evening, according to theContinue Reading
By Felix Anthony Guwahati: In the wake of rising number of Covid cases in North East India, the Catholic Church of the region has formed a core team to respond to the crisis. The primary task of the team, set up during an online meeting on May 18, is toContinue Reading
