Nicaraguan Dictatorship Kidnaps And Expels Another Priest
A large number religious women is in the forefront of the Catholic Church’s humanitarian works among those affected by the nationwide lockdown. Amrat Talitha Kum India, or just Amrat, is one of the largest networks of women religious engaged in anti-human trafficking activities. It has members from 76 women religious congregations working in various parts […]
Abuse of Muslims, Christians, and other minorities in India drew the attention of a federal religious freedom watchdog in its annual report released on April 28 by U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF). USCIRF is a bipartisan federal commission that studies religious persecution and adverse circumstances facing religious minorities around the world, and makes […]
Catholics in a Punjab city have taken the lead to help the poor and needy during the nationwide lockdown. On April 17, the top police officer of Muktsar district launched a Church project to distribute 10,000 milk packets and vitamin tablets to people in their neighborhood S Raj Bachan Singh Sandhu, the district’s Senior Superintendent […]
Catholics in Odisha have mourned the death of Malakias Nayak, a renowned poet who wrote Odiya liturgical hymns and prayers. Nayak died on April 24 in his residence at Bodopada of Gajapati district of Odisha. He was 75. He hailed from Aligonda parish of Berhampur diocese. The writer had under-gone a brain surgery a few […]
Amravati, April 22, 2020: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy, on April 20 announced that all places of worship in the state would be given 5,000-rupee assistance. He made this announcement during a video conference with the District Collectors and Muslim religious leaders on the measures being taken to contain COVID-19. He thanked […]
The Archdiocese of Bombay has asked its priests to follow the directives of the municipal commissioner and cremate Covid-19 victims rather than bury them. “In a video message to priests, Cardinal Oswald Gracias suggested in view of the extraordinary circumstances they would respect the call of the municipal commissioner and cremate any novel coronavirus victims,” […]
Christian charities in central India’s Madhya Pradesh state have been forced to abandon their food distribution among the poor after the state tightened up social distancing norms to contain the spread of coronavirus. The state government imposed a curfew in capital Bhopal on April 6, stopping all social workers, including church groups, from distributing free food […]
A team of four students and two faculty members of Assam Don Bosco University in Guwahati have launched a website to give information on coronavirus in the state to its residents and NRIs from the region. The team comprises Anuron Patgiri, Sanjiban Roy, Injamul Islam, Jayantajit Gogoi, Rupesh Mandal and Nupur Choudhury. Choudhury, an assistant […]
Pope Francis’ 2024 travels: historic visits to Southeast Asia, Oceania, Belgium, and Corsica
Priestly vocations are up in Burkina Faso despite Islamic terrorism