Lucknow, July 14, 2020: Lucknow girl Divyanshi Jain scored 600 marks out of 600 to get 100 percent marks in the 12th grade examination of the Central Board of Secondary Education. The 18-year-old did not lose a single mark in any of her six subjects when the results were declaredContinue Reading
By Anjana Varma Shillong, July 12, 2020: Salesian Father Manoj Abraham Churuliyil is the director of Shillong’s Don Bosco Centre for Indigenous Cultures and Museum. The native of the southern Indian state of Kerala wears many hats — he is a Council Member of Salesian Province of Shillong, professor atContinue Reading
By Purushottam Nayak Padangi, July 11, 2020: Indira Pradhan is ready to give up her husband, three young children and relatives after getting to know Jesus Christ. The 42-year-old woman of Kandhamal, Odisha, says she had serious health issues for three years from 2013 and spent huge money on treatmentContinue Reading
By Purushottam Nayak Sambalpur, July 3, 2020: Divine Word Father Lancy Rodrigues has become the rector of a major seminary in Odisha, eastern India, when the Church in India reels under a series of suicide cases involving Catholic priests. Father Rodrigues, who will turn 65 on July 5, took overContinue Reading
By Dr. George Jacob Kochi, June 30, 2020: As National Doctors’ Day is being celebrated on July 1, I wish to salute an unheralded, ‘camera-shy,’ ‘publicity-loathing’ doctor friend of mine. We did post-graduation in General Surgery together at Medical College, Kottayam in Kerala in early 1990s. Brilliance in academics helpedContinue Reading
By Dhamodaran Palani Kochi, June 28, 2020: Interest and creativity are two different things, but here comes Abran, a 12-year-old boy from Kerala who uses both his passion and creativity to make face masks from his home in this stressful time. He has come up with his own designer masksContinue Reading
By Purushottam Nayak Bhubaneswar, June 25, 2020: Jishaya Nayak, a migrant worker in Kerala, southwestern India, had given up hope of returning home amid the protracted nationwide lockdown. The 23-year-old Catholic youth from Gajapati district in the eastern Indian Odisha state was among some 300 migrants stranded because of theContinue Reading
Anthony Swamy, SVD One evening, I was going through the WhatsApp status of my friends where one picture caught my attention. I looked at the image closely. I couldn’t recognize the face. The image was of a nurse with a face mask on. The text read: “I am proud ofContinue Reading
By Purushottam Nayak Sambalpur, June 17, 2020: Father Ajaya Sabhasundar says God’s blessings have helped him serve the Church and people in Odisha as a priest for the past 25 years. “Our people need to grow in Catholic faith and tradition. My aim has been to show them the richnessContinue Reading
South Raypur, June 12, 2020: As Coronavirus disease has gripped the world as a pandemic, a young girl in India’s West Bengal is lending a helping hand to the people of her village in the eastern Indian state. Ashima Kayal has gathered seven other girls and three boys of herContinue Reading
