By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, March 29, 2020: Catholic bishops of Ranchi, eastern India, have appealed their fellow prelates to reach out to millions of migrant laborers stranded in the country by the 21-day national lockdown. “These are difficult times and even as we live in lockdown and makeContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Mananthavady, March 29, 2020: Police in Kerala on March 29 arrested two Catholic priests and eight others, including two nuns, for conducting prayers with public participation violating lockdown norms to contain coronavirus pandemic. The incident occurred at 8 am at the minor seminary of the MissionariesContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Varanasi, March 28, 2020: Several Church groups in Varanasi are engaged in a massive campaign to save the poor from starvation during the 21-day nationwide lockdown imposed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to contain the spread of coronavirus. Leading the campaign that began on March 25Continue Reading
New Delhi, March 27, 2020: President Ram Nath Kovind on March 27 asked governors and lieutenant governors (LGs) of states and union territories to rope in volunteers from the Red Cross and other religious organisations to contain the spread of coronavirus “at the earliest”, an official spokesman said. Addressing governorsContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, March 26, 2020: The Christian Coalition for Health, the largest healthcare system in India in the private sector, has offered its facilities to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to fight the coronavirus pandemic that has threatened the country’s entire population. “At this time of graveContinue Reading
By Jessy Joseph New Delhi, March 25, 2020: A Catholic priest, who has won awards for revolutionizing the healthcare scenario in Maharashtra, now awaits the Vatican response to his appeal against dismissal from a Kerala-based religious congregation. The Missionary Congregation of Blessed Sacrament (MCBS) superior general Father Joseph Maleparampil throughContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Thiruvananthapuram, March 24, 2020: Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has welcomed as a “morale booster” the Catholic Church’s offer of its healthcare institutions to the state to fight the coronavirus. “I am grateful to the Church for offering the needed help at this critical time,” VijayanContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Koodapuzha, March 23, 2020: Police in Kerala on March 23 arrested a Catholic priest for celebrating Mass in the church with some 100 people, defying government order on social distancing to contain coronavirus pandemic. However, the police let off Father Pauly Padayatty, a priest of theContinue Reading
New Delhi, March 22, 2020: Two coronavirus deaths were reported from Maharashtra’s Mumbai and Bihar on March 22, taking the total number of deaths linked to COVID-19 in India to six. In Bihar, a 38-year-old man who had recently traveled to Qatar died of renal failure at Patna’s All IndiaContinue Reading
By Jessy Joseph New Delhi, March 21, 2020: To curb the spread of pandemic COVID-19 in India, Catholic dioceses in the country have suspended public participation in Masses and other church services. The Church has adopted different measures to support the government’s efforts to curtail the spread of COVID-19. AccordingContinue Reading
