By Ivan Fernandes Bangkok, Dec 10, 2022: The Covid-19 pandemic which began at the end of 2019 has caused “serious hardship” relating to domestic violence, sexual abuse, increased child labor exploitation and mental health to children and adolescents, particularly girls, says a new study by nuns from four congregations. TheContinue Reading
By Patrick Hansda New Delhi, June 23, 2022: Caritas India, the social development arm of the Catholic bishops in India, has been awarded for its excellent work in humanitarian aid and disaster risk reduction, community health, climate-adaptive agriculture and food sovereignty. Fathers Jolly Puthenpura, Caritas India’s assistant executive director andContinue Reading
By Christopher Khoo Singapore, Oct 28, 2021: When will all this end? I remember asking myself this several times last year as the Covid-19 pandemic dragged on week after week, month after month. And then, when it looked as if the clouds were lifting and infection rates dropping, another surgeContinue Reading
By Pascoal Carvalho Mumbai, Sept. 28, 2021: Excerpt of the presentation by Mumbai-based Doctor Pascoal Carvalho at the general assembly of the Pontifical Academy for Life in Rome on September 27 on “Public Health in Global Perspective – Pandemic, Bioethics, Future.” The Covid-19 Pandemic has been the greatest leveler inContinue Reading
By Dr George Jacob Kochi: Vaccination against Covid-19 has instilled a false sense of security among vaccinees. This was exemplified by an elderly person I met in one of the lifts in the hospital I work. He wore a mask all right. The apparently overused and soiled mask hung fromContinue Reading
Manila: Catholic dioceses in the Metro Manila area of the Philippines have suspended public Masses for three weeks amid a rise in COVID-19 infections. The news service of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines reported on July 31 that Masses would be online-only until Aug. 20. Manila archdiocese, asContinue Reading
Hyderabad: In the academic year 2020-21, more than 2 lakh students between Classes 1 and 12 moved from private schools to government in Andhra Pradesh. Around 60,253 are estimated to have dropped out of the system. In total, 3,57,873 students either dropped out of school or took transfer certificates forContinue Reading
Yangon: Cardinal Charles Maung Bo of Myanmar’s Archdiocese of Yangon has called for united fight against the spread of the coronavirus disease in the already devastated Southeast Asian country. “Please, please stop all the conflicts,” appealed the cardinal in a message as the country marked Martyrs’ Day, a national holidayContinue Reading
By Carlyne Remedios Mumbai: Never before have we been so invested in our immunity than since when Covid hit us in 2019. The internet and the market are saturated with products, pills and shots promising to ‘boost’ your immunity and it is all enticing because who doesn’t want a quickContinue Reading
New Delhi: More than 2,000 children in Delhi have lost either one or both parents to Covid-19, since the pandemic outbreak in March 2020, says a survey conducted by the Delhi Commission For Protection of Child Rights or DCPCR. As many as 67 children lost both their parents, the studyContinue Reading