Benwen Lopez

“We are deeply saddened by the death of Fr Stan Swami," said the President of the Jesuit South Asian Conference (POSA), Fr Jerome Stanislaus D’Souza SJ, in remarks to the <i>Catholic Herald</i>. "In his death, we have lost a great Jesuit, who loved Jesus and the poor."

Since a second wave of infections hit India in April, new cases have exceeded 300,000 per day, with the daily death toll climbing above 4,100 earlier this week.