By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, Nov. 5, 2018: India’s press freedom has “worsened,” says the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). In this year’s Global Impunity Index (GII) on press freedom based on a report CPJ, India ranked at 14th position. The unsolved cases of India remain 18.Continue Reading
Manila, Nov. 5, 2018: On her last day in the Philippines, Australian missionary Sister Patricia Anne Fox urged Filipinos not to lose hope and instead unite to attain genuine reforms in the country. “The big challenge is not to lose hope, to know that if we all move together, weContinue Reading
Aizawl, Nov. 5, 2018: The administration of Mizoram plans to reach out an influential Church body to address a demand for the removal of the state’s chief election commissioner. An apex NGOs committee has set November 5 as the deadline for the ouster of S B Sashank leading to anContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Taipei, Nov. 5, 2018: Preparations are underway for the first meeting of the Taiwan Ecumenical Forum for Justice and Peace (TEF) to be held from November 27 to 30. TEF is being hosted by the Presbyterian Church in Taiwan (PCT) at the Presbyterian Bible College inContinue Reading
Mumbai, Nov. 4, 2018: A year shy of retiring, when he turns 75, Father Jude Botelho, parish priest of the Church of Our Lady of Glory, Byculla, popularly known as Gloria Church, can’t help but look back at the last four years as a lesson in art history. Back inContinue Reading
Kohima, Nov.4, 2018: The apex church body in Nagaland finds the recent Supreme Court judgments decriminalizing homosexuality between consenting adults as well as adultery, “detestable” and “unacceptable” to Christians. The Nagaland Baptist Church Council (NBCC) deliberated on the court rulings threadbare at its executive meeting held on October 30-31. “LegalizingContinue Reading
Kochi: After the controversial land deal in Ernakulam – Angamaly archdiocese which shook the Syro Malabar Church in Kerala, a petition has been submitted in the Ernakulam Munsif Court against another land transaction in Church. Polachan Puthuppara, president of Kerala Catholic Association for Justice, has filed a petition in theContinue Reading
London, October 4, 2018: An Indian-origin couple from southern England has been arrested for allegedly a Polish builder in their garden shed for four years. Palvinder and Pritpal Binning, both in their mid-50s, were arrested by the UK’s Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority (GLAA) earlier this week after a raidContinue Reading
KOCHI, Oct 4: Save Our Sisters (SoS) Action Council will hold a Secretariat march on November 14, urging the government to cancel the bail granted to Bishop Franco Mulakkal and investigate the death of Fr Kuriakose Kattuthara, who died under mysterious circumstances. Announcing this, Action Council convener Fr Augustine Vattoly said the deathContinue Reading
Jalandhar: Catholic Church owned magazine has extended open support to Bishop Franco Mulakkal and alleged that his arrest was due to pressure from the media. Christward, the monthly news bulletin published by the Diocese of Jalandhar, describes the present situation as ‘The suffering church’. “After two days of interrogation atContinue Reading