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Carmelites’ 5-bed clinic in Gujarat expands outside for COVID-19 patients

When some 30 people thronged a church-managed clinic run by three Carmelite sisters in the western Indian state of Gujarat early April 7, Sr. Lisset Vadakkekara saw it as an unusual sign to bear witness to her role as a Catholic nun and a follower of Christ in a predominantly Hindu area. Vadakkekara, a member […]

Study estimates 1.21 million Indians have died from Covid-19

It was three weeks ago when journalists combing obituary pages in Prime Minister Na-rendra Modi’s home state of Gujarat found authorities were concealing Covid-19 deaths that people started asking hard questions about the real number of Indian coronavirus fatalities. Now, epidemiologists and scientists around the world are struggling to solve the question. The latest to […]

Indian Claretian receives Vatican honour

The Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples has honoured an Indian Claretian priest for his two decades of service. Fr Joseph Koonamparampil received insignia of honour from Card. Luis Antonio Tagle, prefect of the congregation. The occasion also marked the Father Koonamparampil’s golden jubilee in the Claretian congregation.

Indian court favours nun’s petition to ban offensive movie

Delhi High Court has directed the federal Information and Broadcasting Ministry to expeditiously consider a Catholic nun’s demand to ban a movie accused of portraying priests and nuns as “sex maniacs”. The direction from the state court of the national capital came on May 17 while it was hearing a petition from Sister Jessy Mani, […]

Indian guru’s aide accuses medical chief of Christian conspiracy

A day after the Indian Medical Association (IMA) took yoga guru Baba Ramdev to task for remarks criticizing allopathy, his aide Acharya Balkrishna claimed that IMA president Johnrose Jayalal was conspiring to convert the country to Christianity. Last week Ramdev in a video clip had said that allopathy — the treatment of disease by drugs […]

India’s top court demands help for migrant workers

India’s Supreme Court has intervened for the third time in a year after it learned of the plight of migrant workers during the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic. The apex court said on May 24 that its main concern is that benefits and schemes meant for migrant workers must reach them. The court also […]

Land dispute hits Christian cemetery in northern India

A land dispute in Ghaziabad district of India’s Uttar Pradesh state is preventing the Christian community from using a cemetery as the country reels from the Covid-19 pandemic. “Even today, two of our members died of Covid-19 and we are running from pillar to post of the administration office to perform the last rites. If […]

St John’s guides Odisha diocese on Covid-19

St John’s National Academy of Health Sciences, a prestigious Church institution in Bengaluru, has begun guiding a diocese in Odisha in Covid protocol behaviour. “My diocese is grateful to St John’s Medical College helping us to deal with the present crisis due to the coronavirus pandemic,” Bishop Niranjan Sualsingh of Sambalpur told Matters India May […]

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Pope: Red Cross’ humanitarian work shows that fraternity is possible

New Vatican document lists ‘grave violations’ of human dignity