In Andhra Pradesh state of India, a doctor gulped down sleeping pills when pulled up by authorities for not doing field visits to follow up tuberculosis (TB) patients (source: The Times of India). "There was no other medical officer" in the clinic so she couldn't go to field visits and rather attend

Just a short stroll through Rewali, Adampur, the mud embankment in Kaiserganj, Bahraich, a small district in the flood prone area of Uttar Pradesh, gives you an idea of the gravity of the predicament people here face year after year. Yet this year none seem to grumble their grievances about governm

Sixty per cent of people living with HIV in India are losing their life because of a preventable and curable cause: tuberculosis (TB). India's largest network of people living with HIV (Indian Network of people living with HIV - INP+) held a meeting recently with Cepheid, and Foundation for Innovati

Ordinarily, men and women throughout his life and especially in their youth, feel a strong impulse to share his life with another person, usually of the opposite sex. Thus, both seek companionship, affection, complementary psychological, help with their projects and dreams and also to the difficulti

Karachi: January 31, 2011. (PCP) The Central Council of Pakistan Christian Congress have dissolved PCC-Canada Chapter with immediate effect on intimation of Agnes Massey, PCC-Canada Chapter President.
Agnes Massey resigned from PCC-Canada Chapter in 2010, but her resignation was under consideratio

For a country like India that has the largest number of people infected with tuberculosis (TB) in the world, there are significant life-saving advances made in TB care and control over the past years, despite challenges. A lot more remains to be achieved but the gains made over the past decade, are

If people living with HIV (PLHIV) are food insecure, then we alarmingly lose the desired good outcomes of quality HIV treatment and care. This was powerfully articulated and backed by evidence in the session of Dr Christine Wanke, Director, Division of Nutrition and Infection, Tufts University Schoo

Holland, January 25, 2011. (Shumail P. report for PCP) Parvez Iqbal, President Pakistan Christian Congress Holland Chapters in his exclusive message to the Human Rights Unit for South Asia in EU and to the European Parliament as whole has thanked for first considering an appeal filed by PCC Holland

Third Sunday after the Epiphany, January 23, 2011
Christ Episcopal Church, La Crosse, Wisconsin
The Rev. Canon Patrick P. Augustine, D.Min., Rector
Matthew 4: 12-23
Proclaim the Kingdom of God
Preaching the Gospel this morning is a challenge in Green Bay Packers country. Our minds are focused

We are indeed living in hostile times. There is violence not only at the war front, but also in our homes, on the roads and even in hospitals. It seems as if each of these places has become a battlefield. Hospital rage is increasingly becoming a common phenomenon. Every day, we hear about patients’

A call for liberal democracy and economic democracy. That would best avenge Governor Taseer’s blood whose murderers are fearlessly roaming the streets. That would help stem the rising tide of fanaticism.
The moving wheel of history sometimes turns up a situation where, if ordinary human beings act

Pakistan : Blood on the concrete pavement was what the television screens showed. It was the blood of a distinguished human being, Salmaan Taseer, an outstanding son of the soil who worked hard and achieved a lot. He was a professional, a businessman, a politician, a friend and a family man. He also

The United Nations General Assembly has created UN Women, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, in July 2010 -- a new agency solely focused on women's rights with a view to invest in women's equality. In the words of Michelle Bachelet, UN Under-Secretary-Gene

Second Sunday after the Epiphany, January 16, 2011, Christ Episcopal Church, La Crosse, WI
Isaiah 49: 1-7, Psalm 40: 1-12, I Corinthians 1: 1-9, John 1: 29-42
I will sing a New Song
This week we remember the life of Dr. Martin Luther King our modern day American prophet. He once wrote in his le

Mumbai: January 14, 2011 (CNS): India should resist pressure from the European Union to accept, as part of a free trade agreement, harmful provisions that will have a major negative impact on access to affordable medicines, the international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières