Dubai, July 28, 2019: The only son of an Indian family in Sharjah was shot and killed in a supermarket robbery in the US on July 24 morning. Neil Kumar, 30, who grew up in the UAE, was pursuing his masters degree in computer science in Troy University in Alabama.Continue Reading
GUWAHATI, JULY 28, 2019: A Christian organisation in the northeast, has questioned the motive behind the creation of a ‘Christian missionary cell’ at a time when the Centre is pushing an education policy to “homogenise Indian society.” The BJP in Mizoram had, a few days ago, formed the cell toContinue Reading
Chandigarh, July 28, 2019: The public relations nightmare for a five-star hotel in Chandigarh, peeled for trying to charge actor Rahul Bose Rs. 442 for two bananas, refuses to die down. Tax authorities have fined JW Marriott Rs. 25,000 for violating regulation by collecting tax on an exempted item, newsContinue Reading
Matters India reporter Sonada, July 28, 2019: A college in Darjeeling hills has won an international award for Faculty Orientation, Strategic Planning and NAAC Accreditation. Salesian College Principal Father George Thadathil and CEO of Leadership Inc Hong Kong Mark J. Pixley have been awarded a 2019 Silver Facilitation Impact Award,Continue Reading
By Jonah McKeown Denver, July 27, 2019: Following reports from the Associated Press that several hundred priests protested the Vatican’s recent decision to restore Cardinal George Alencherry to his administrative duties, a spokesman for the Syro-Malabar Church has disputed the report’s accuracy, and said that people wishing to see theContinue Reading
By Lissy Maruthanakuzhy Panaji, July 27, 2019: The Goa unit of the Conference of Religious (CRI) organized a course on integration for religious and priests who have come to work in the Archdiocese of Goa. Rachol Seminary rector Father Aleixo Menezes briefed the newcomers about the history of Goa. HeContinue Reading
Pontotoc, July 27, 2019: It’s a long way from northeast India to Immanuel Baptist Church in Northeast Mississippi – about 8,000 miles to be exact. It’s a journey the Reverends A.K. and Asangla Lama of Transforming Leaders in Asia (TLA) have been making for the past few years as partContinue Reading
By Allen Brooks Guwahati, July 27, 2019: The Assam Christian Forum has expressed anxiety over the haste in which the Indian government tries to press an “unstudied and un-reflected” Education Policy on the people of the country. At an urgently called meeting in Guwahati, the state’s commercial capital, on JulyContinue Reading
Thiruvananthapuram, July 27, 2019: A study by an activist group has revealed glaring discrimination by various agencies against the marginalized during the 2018 flood relief operations in Kerala. The affected included Dalits, Dalit Christians, adivasis and scheduled castes. Their plight has been brought out in a document, ‘Marginalization in Catastrophe:Continue Reading
By Dr. Sushila S. Fonseca Panaji, July 27, 2019: Many youngsters strive to join the medical profession because it is a noble one, giving health and hope to suffering fellow men. A few join because they have scored the marks and for them to enter the corridors of medicine isContinue Reading