Washington, D.C., June 2020: On May 30, protests in Chicago over the death of George Floyd turned vio, lent. As rioters targeted the city’s Magnificent Mile shopping district, shattering glass and raiding stores, they picked an unlikely target: A bookstore run by nuns. As the Daughters of St. Paul cleanedContinue Reading
By chhotebhai Kanpur, May 27, 2020: Absurd! This is an oxymoron, a contradiction in terms. How can one be both a Catholic and a Pentecostal? When we use caps to denote Proper Nouns then it may seem contradictory. But if we use small letters to denote adjectives, then the apparentContinue Reading
New Delhi, May 14, 2020: Naresh Trehan, a world renowned cardiac surgeon from India, has urged his fellow citizens to behave themselves to fight the coronavirus pandemic. “To fight this war, we need to behave ourselves, by changing our social behavior pattern. Hands hygiene, masking, and distancing. We will beContinue Reading
By Julio Ribeiro Mumbai, May 3, 2020: Locked down in my daughter’s home in Mumbai, I get to know what people are thinking and talking about when I speak to them on the telephone or by e-mail. And what they say is not pleasing to an old man’s ears! MyContinue Reading
Rome, April 30,2020: After eight weeks without funerals, Italian families will be able finally to gather together to mourn and pray at funeral Masses for the victims of the coronavirus starting May 4. In Milan, the largest city in Italy’s coronavirus epicenter, priests are preparing for an influx of funeralContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Mumbai, April 28, 2020: Cardinal Oswald Gracias, Archbishop of Bombay, has urged his priests to pay full salaries of March and April to those working in archdiocesan institutions. “After consulting our bishops and the Finance Office, I am directing that the March and April salaries beContinue Reading
HYDERABAD, April 25, 2020 : Dr KM Ismail Hussain who treated hundreds of thousands of poor people free for five decades succumbed to Covid-19 while fighting to save many from the pandemic. The Kurnool-based medical practitioner was popularly known as ‘two-rupee doctor’ in Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Karnataka. He diedContinue Reading
By chhotebhai Kanpur, April 24, 2020: The Tokyo Olympics 2020 have been postponed indefinitely because of that wicked little pathogen – the Coronavirus. The irony should not be lost on the world we live in. The Olympic motto is “Citius, Altius, Fortius” the Latin words for “Faster, Stronger, and Higher.”Continue Reading
Sikar, April 21,2020:For migrant labourers in Rajasthan’s Sikar, the recent quarantine orders inspired them to do something innovative that would help them to pass the isolation time and cheer up the quarantine facility where they are living. The migrant workers from Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar and other places ofContinue Reading
Washington, April 15, 2020: United States President Donald Trump has announced a suspension of US funding to the World Health Organization because he said it had covered up the seriousness of the COVID-19 outbreak in China before it spread around the world. Trump told a press conference on April 14Continue Reading
