Mangaluru: A laity group in Mangalore diocese has distributed food kits to 124 churches. The Catholic Sabha (council) held the program on May 12 at the Bishop’s House. It was blessed by Bishop Peter Paul Saldanha of Mangalore. The Sabha central president Stany Lobo welcomed the gathering and said thatContinue Reading
By Lalita Roshini Lakra Ranchi: The Daughters of St Anne congregation has launched distribution of free lunch to patients flocking to their hospital near Ranchi, capital of Jharkhand state. “There is a big rush of Covid patients, especially from villages,” says Sister Neelima Ekka, in-charge of the Covid-wing of StContinue Reading
By Sujata Jena Bhubaneswar: As many as 30 Dalit houses were set on fire in a village under the Puri district of Odisha, eastern India. According to Bada Khabar, an Odiya news channel, the houses in Brahmapur village were burnt on May 9 as the Dalit families refused to carryContinue Reading
New Delhi: In a setback to civil rights activist Gautam Navlakha, the Supreme Court on May 12 dismissed his plea seeking bail in the alleged Elgar Parishad-Maoist link case of Bhima Koregaon in Maharashtra. The top court examined the technical grounds raised by Navlakha for the default bail as theContinue Reading
Pune: Since April, the daily count of new cases has increased five times in India, from about 80,000 to more than 400,000 a day now. During the same time, however, the number of deaths being reported every day has increased almost 10 times, from about 400 a day to overContinue Reading
By Jessy Joseph New Delhi: A Catholic nun has urged the Delhi High Court to stop the release of a Malayalam film that she alleges would hurt Christians’ religious sentiments. Sacred Heart Sister Jessy Mani, a New Delhi-based psychologist, approached the court on May 11 against “Aquarium,” which is setContinue Reading
Aligarh: Forty-four employees of the Aligarh Muslim University – 19 professors and 25 non-teaching staff – have died after contracting the Covid virus, sparking concern over yet more cases, and deaths, emerging from the prestigious educational institution. AMU Vice Chancellor Tariq Mansoor wrote to the ICMR (Indian Council for MedicalContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi: The Church in northern India has mourned the death of a Vincentian priest who opened new mission areas in Agra archdiocese and Meerut diocese in Uttar Pradesh state. Father Thomas Emprayil died of Covid-19 at 9:55 am on May 8 in St Joseph’s HospitalContinue Reading
A catastrophic second wave of COVID-19 has overwhelmed India’s already creaky health infrastructure, with hospitals running out of beds and oxygen, while critical drugs are being sold on a thriving black market. Social media platforms have been flooded with SOS messages from people pleading for oxygen cylinders and hospital admissionsContinue Reading
Mumbai: Till the end of last month, 27-year-old Ashish Avhad had to field non-stop telephone calls from COVID patients seeking beds, ambulances and guidance on home isolation. Avhad works as a telephone operator in one of the 24 COVID response “war rooms” in India’s financial capital Mumbai, home to moreContinue Reading
