During this second surge medical and support teams had no time to be anxious about themselves as scores of Covid-19 cases began arriving at Holy Family’s emergency room doors.
Indian Church extends hand to ease pandemic crisis
Cardinal Oswald Gracias explains how the Church s social arm and its healthcare sector are responding to the critical emergency of the nation under massive waves of Covid-19 cases and deaths.
By Robin Gomes
The Catholic Church of India has made available some 60,000 beds of its healthcare facilities in the country’s battle against the devastating second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic. More than 50,000 nuns normally work at these facilities, a thousand of whom are qualified doctors, said Cardinal Oswald Gracias of Bombay, the president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI). “Faced with the catastrophe, India’s Catholic Church is doing its utmost to help all those suffering, irrespective of caste or creed,” he told AsiaNews.
.Relatives of a person who died after contracting COVID-19 mourn over the casket before the burial at a graveyard in New Delhi April 29, 2021. (CNS photo/Adnan Abidi, Reuters) .People lower the body of a man who died of COVID-19 into a grave at a cemetery in Ahmedabad, India, May 3, 2021. (CNS photo/Amit Dave, Reuters) .A statue of Christ is pictured over the casket of a person who died after contracting COVID-19 before the burial at a graveyard in New Delhi April 29, 2021. (CNS photo/Adnan Abidi, Reuters)
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THRISSUR, India (CNS) Amid thousands dying daily of COVID-19, even in rural areas of India, the pandemic has taken a heavy toll on church leaders.
Christian groups team up for food scheme in India
Campaign reaches out to over 1,000 pandemic-affected people a day in Karnataka state
CoronaCare Bengaluru volunteers hand out food packages to people affected by the pandemic. (Photo: Bijay Kumar Minj/UCA News)
A group of Christian organizations in the southern Indian state of Karnataka have initiated a food program to help people affected by the pandemic.
CoronaCare Bengaluru is a joint Covid-19 intervention by six leading Christian organizations in Bengaluru, state capital of Karnataka. The organizations are Hope, Breads, Echo, Aifo, Good Quest Foundation and Orione Seva.
Hope is the social initiative of the Claretians of Bangalore, Breads is the social wing of the Salesians of Don Bosco, Echo is the program of the Norbertine Fathers, Orione Seva is the social enterprise of the Servants of Divine Providence, Aifo is an Italian society working for the welfare of the persons with disabilities and disaster victims, and the Good