By Lissy Maruthanakuzhy Panaji, July 23, 2020: We have been living in uncertainty since some time. We have been anxious about the lockdown impact on our relationships and finances as we bear with the lockdowns. The pandemic of our day is test time for proving oneself. Sukanya Ray, a clinicalContinue Reading
By Lissy Maruthanakuzhy Panaji, June 10, 2020: In March this year when the government announced the nationwide lockdown to fight the coronavirus, we were at the peak of summer. In the enforced lockdown we could do nothing but accept a life within our houses. The time at our disposal enlightenedContinue Reading
Thiruvananthapuram, June 7, 2020: Cardinal Baselios Cleemis, head of the Syro-Malankara Church, has expressed disappointment over the federal health ministry’s decision to keep people above 65 away as places of worship open after more than three months of lockdown. The federal Ministry of Health and Family Welfare plans to letContinue Reading
New Delhi, May 27, 2020: Two months Coronavirus lockdown have done what successive governments could not do in 25 years even with a budget of 50 billion rupees at their disposal: Clean up the Yamuna River. As industrial activity halted and other commercial activities slowed during the lockdown, the YamunaContinue Reading
By Jacob Peenikaparambil Indore, May 17, 2020: The newspapers in Madhya Pradesh on May 17 published a moving picture of a migrant worker Yakoob calling for help from passersby while his friend Amrit lay on his lap. Amrit and Yakoob were part of a group of migrant workers travelling fromContinue Reading
By Purushottam Nayak Raikia, May 7, 2020: A teenage girl in Odisha uses art to spread the devotion to Mary during the nationwide lockdown time. Meghanjali Majhi, a resident of Raikia village in Odisha’s Kandhamal district, has intensified her efforts especially during May, the month dedicated to the Blessed Virgin.Continue 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 F M Britto Raipur, April 29, 2020: The women of a village in Chhattisgarh have written letters to their chief minister for moratorium of alcohol in the state even after the lockdown is lifted. Initiated by their sarpanch (village council chief) Name Bai, a women, nearly 500 women inContinue 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
By Purushottam Nayak Bhubaneswar, April 25, 2020: Catholics of Odisha’s Berhampur diocese say their Christian identity could invite harassment citing the recent arrest of a priest who allegedly broke lockdown rules. According to Jitendra Nayak, pastoral council secretary of the St. Peter’s Catholic Church of Mohana parish, two policemen inContinue Reading
