Rome: Margaret Karram from the Holy Land was elected president of the Focolare Movement, an international organization that promotes the ideals of unity and universal brotherhood. The 58-year-old Arab Catholic woman won more than two thirds of the votes cast in the movement’s 359-member General Assembly held on January 31.Continue Reading
By Ajin Joseph New Delhi: Pope Francis has bestowed the title of Chevalier on Cyril John, a member of CHARIS International Service of Communion. This is the fourth highest papal order in the Equestrian Order of St. Gregory the Great. The CHARIS International Service of Communion was constituted in 2018Continue Reading
By Philip Mathew Bengaluru: Sister Christin Mary is a member of the Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, also known as ICM Sisters. Based in the western Indian city of Mumbai, Mary coordinates the National Domestic Workers’ Movement, which has been championing the rights of domestic workers, childrenContinue Reading
Thiruvananthapuram: A 21-year-old college student has been officially proposed as the next Mayor of Thiruvananthapuram, the capital of Kerala. Arya Rajendran has won the recent civic polls as a member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) that heads the ruling Left Democratic Front (LDF) in the southern Indian state.Continue Reading
By Frida Toppo Bengaluru: Caren Rodrigues, Assistant Professor at St. Joseph’s Institute of Management, Bengaluru, has been selected as a delegate to the global summit on “Economy of Francesco” commissioned by Pope Francis. She teaches Organizational Behavior, Organizational Structure and Design, Human Resources Management, Research Methods, Performance Management; International HRM,Continue Reading
By F. M. Britto Raipur: A Christian IAS officer in Tamil Nadu, who has been admired for relentlessly crusading against corruption, has applied for voluntary retirement from government service, three years before reaching the retirement age. News agencies say that it may be because Ubagaram Pillai Sagayam had been demoted,Continue Reading
By Frida Toppo Guwahati: Lilymaxima Ekka, a staff member of a forum that works for development of northeastern India, is concerned mainly with checking trafficking of tribal girls from the region. The Guwahati-based North East Diocesan Social Service Society (NEDSSS) has assigned the 25-year-old to focus on tribal women inContinue Reading
By Lissy Maruthanakuzhy Old Goa: Sister Meena Dias, a member of the Sisters of Holy Family of Nazareth, is adept in training differently abled children. In 1991, she started serving St. Xavier’s Academy in Old Goa, an institution under the Archdiocese of Goa and Daman. Sister Dias was the firstContinue Reading
By Purushottam Nayak Bhubaneswar: A young Catholic woman, victim of the anti-Christian violence in 2008 in Odisha’s Kandhamal, has cleared the National Eligibility and Entrance Test (NEET), one of the toughest national level exams in India. “God is so caring and loving to the orphan. If my parents were aliveContinue Reading
London: A UK-based Indian-origin plastic surgeon has been named an ‘Outstanding Young Person of the World 2020’ by a non-profit NGO for her “incredible” scientific contributions to diagnosing and treating breast cancer. Jajini Varghese, 39-year-old Consultant in Oncoplastic Breast Surgery at Royal Free Hospital and University College London, is amongContinue Reading
