A Filipina nun, who served India for 41 years, has returned to her native country. Sister Linda Gomez of Daughters of the Charity, a congregation founded by St Vincent De Paul, worked among the poor mostly in Odisha, eastern India, has returned to the Philippines. Sister Martha Pradhan, who heads the congregation’s North India province, in a ceremony in Berhampur on August 25, thanked Sister Gomez for her service to the Church and society in India. Sister Gomez worked also among the poor in West Bengal and other parts of the country. She was among the first to volunteer to work among the victims of the Orissa Super Cyclone 1994, Sister Pradhan recalled.
Justice Bhuyan Calls for Protection of Dissent and Personal Liberty
Supreme Court Justice Ujjal Bhuyan has expressed concern over the growing trend of treating peaceful dissent and ordinary actions as criminal offences. Speaking at a
