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Many mosques in India turned into Covid centers

A catastrophic second wave of COVID-19 has overwhelmed India’s already creaky health infrastructure, with hospitals running out of beds and oxygen, while critical drugs are being sold on a thriving black market. Social media platforms have been flooded with SOS messages from people pleading for oxygen cylinders and hospital admissions as authorities struggled to cope […]

Church leaders ask India to deploy military in Covid-19 crisis

As Covid-19 continues to claim thousands of lives daily in India, Catholic leaders have called on the federal government to deploy the military to deal with the crisis before it worsens. “The second wave of Covid-19 is surely a national calamity and the entire nation is struggling as thousands are dying and hundreds of thousands […]

Release vaccines for India: Indian American doctors urge Biden

A prominent group of Indian-American doctors on May 7 urged the US government to release at least 30 million AstraZeneca vaccine doses to India to help meet its “acute and severe” shortage in the country, which is experiencing one of the worst outbreaks of COVID-19 in the world. The American Association of Physicians of Indian-Origin […]

Dalits refuse to carry bodies, huts torched in Odisha

As many as 30 Dalit houses were set on fire in a village under the Puri district of Odisha, eastern India. According to Bada Khabar, an Odiya news channel, the houses in Brahmapur village were burnt on May 9 as the Dalit families refused to carry dead bodies to the crematoria. A few months ago, […]

Mercy Angels give dignified burials to Indian Covid-19 victims

The Mercy Angels, a 65-member team of volunteers in the Archdiocese of Banga-lore in Karnataka state, help to bury Christians in the Indian Christian Cemetery, a common cemetery for all denominations in Bengaluru (formerly Bangalore). “We have buried more than 250 bodies of Covid-19 patients in less than 15 days in our archdiocese,” said Father Santosh Royan. […]

Pope prays for India’s emergency workers as pandemic surges

As India faces a massive surge in new infections and deaths caused by Covid-19, Pope Francis said he was praying for all those affected by the huge health emergency. With so many in India suffering, “I am writing to convey my heartfelt solidarity and spiritual closeness to all the Indian people, together with the assurance of […]

Goa archdiocese opens renewal centre for people’s self-quarantine

The archdiocese of Goa-Daman plans to open one of its spiritual renewal centers for people who require self-quarantine during this coronavirus pandemic time. Father Savio Fernandes, assistant director Caritas-Goa, says they have sent five nurses to undergo training in Heath-way Hospital to take charge of the service in St Joseph Vaz Spiritual Renewal Centre in […]

Devasahayam, six others approved for canonization

Pope Francis presided at an Ordinary Public Consistory for the Canonization of Ble-sseds on May 3 morning, in the Consistory Hall of the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican. During a Consistory, the Cardinals “assist the Supreme Pastor of the Church through collegial action” by offering their counsel on matters of particular importance to the whole […]