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Filipina nun who worked in India dies in Spain due to covid-19

A Filipina Benedictine nun has succumbed to coronavirus in Spain, her congregation reported on March 28. Sr Maria Gratia Balagot, who was the superior of their community in India, was only visiting Spain to renew her visa when she was infected with Covid-19. “And while there, (she) contracted the virus,” the US-based Missionary Benedictine Sisters […]

Heed PM’s call, join people’s curfew: Cardinal Gracias

Cardinal Oswald Gracias, head of the Catholic Church in India, on March 20 urged his people to cooperate wholeheartedly with the people’s curfew called by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to contain coronavirus epidemic. Cardinal Gracias lauded the prime minister’s public appeal to India’s more than 1.3 billion people to observe a self-imposed curfew on March […]

COVID-19: Salesian university professor selected for global platform

Vikramjit Kakati, who serves as Associate Professor (Mechanical Engg) at Don Bosco University of Guwahati has been selected as one of the mentors in a Canada-based international panel to fight coronavirus pandemic. Montreal General Hospital Foundation, Canada, has launched a global Initiative to design a low-cost, simple, easy-to-use and easy-to-build ventilator that can serve the […]

Lockdown: Catholic School Reaches Out To Hungry In Delhi

A Catholic school in Delhi is feeding migrants, destitute, and elderly caught in the in nationwide lockdown to contain coronavirus. It all started with a desperate Whatsapp call Father Savariraj, the principal of Rosary School at Narela in North Delhi district, received on March 30. The priest immediately convened a meeting of the school’s teaching […]

Christian women express outrage over spraying disinfectant on workers

A national body of women belonging to various Christian denominations has expressed shock and outrage over the spraying of disinfectant on migrant laborers. “Even as the whole country is battling an intense and grueling confrontation with the Corona crisis, we the members of want to express our deep shock and horror at the treatment being […]

Coronavirus: Indian Church urged to care for stranded migrants

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 make every attempt to keep ourselves safe, thousands of migrants are stuck where they are, […]

Catholic religious urged to reach out to lockdown-affected

India’s more than 115,000 Catholic religious men and women have been urged to reach out to the poor affected by a 21-day national lockdown to contain the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. “We need to move fast. This is an emergency,” says Father Joe Mannath, national secretary of the Conference of Religious India (CRI), the […]

HC Supports 2 % Reservation For Dalit Christians In Gurukul School Admissions

Stating that a mere conversion of a scheduled caste man from Hindu religion to Christian religion will not make him a Brahmin or a millionaire and hence it is unfair to deny him the reservation facility. Telangana high court has appreciated the state of Telangana for creating 2 per cent reservations to such converts in […]