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There are seven priests currently hospitalized with COVID-19 from the archdiocese of Ranchi in one of the states in India with some of the poorest medical infrastructure in the country, according to a local bishop.
Bishop Theodore Mascarenhas, an auxiliary bishop of the archdiocese located in Jharkhand state, took each of the priests to the hospital because there were no ambulances available.
He held back tears as he described the dire health situation in his diocese in an interview with Colm Flynn of EWTN News.
“I have seven priests in hospital right now, and those are the lucky ones who found a hospital bed. I have another seven seminarians who are sick, lying in their beds in a house close to the hospital. I took them to a house for the aging because there was no place in the hospital,” Mascarenhas said.
Indian bishops blame government, people for pandemic surge
India’s Health Ministry registered 323,144 fresh Covid-19 infections Tuesday morning, slightly below Monday’s record of 352,991 cases. Meanwhile, 2,771 new deaths took the toll to 197,894, closing in on the 200,000th mark.
By Vatican News
With India swamped by a massive wave of Covid-19 infections and deaths, and the health system almost on the verge of collapse, the country’s Catholic bishops have expressed their closeness with the suffering people while blaming the government and the people for lack of foresight and negligence.
Government and public negligence It can be said that the main cause of this tragic situation is the complacency of the government and the lack of a conscientious public, Archbishop Prakash Mallavarapu of Visakhapatnam said. He pointed out that the country has exported more than 60 million Covid vaccines to 84 countries when it had a vaccine shortage. Certainly, there has been a gr
April 16, 2021
CWN Editor s Note: The southwestern Indian state of Kerala (map) is 55% Hindu, 27% Muslim, and 18% Christian. Two Eastern Catholic churches (the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church and the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church) have their headquarters there.
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‘For centuries, Nair and Syrian Christian feudals were partners in maintaining Kerala’s caste oppression’
Against the backdrop of the RSS cozying up to the Kerala church establishment, Prof G. Mohan Gopal says there is a crying need for a new political movement in Kerala that will represent the interests of SEBCs, Dalits and Tribals and ally with the Muslims to safeguard Kerala from being taken over by the former feudals
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