By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, July 27, 2019: Delhi state’s health minister says the practice of sex determination and sex-selective abortions is rampant among the rich and affluent families in the national capital. The worst affected among Delhi’s 11 district is South Delhi that houses posh residential enclaves ofContinue Reading
By Arrington Luck Mclean, July 27, 2019: Drawn from places as varied as Arizona and London, New York and India, hundreds of volunteers last week found themselves in an unassuming hotel just outside Washington, joining together near the nation’s capital to help its homeless. Traditional Indian music blared in aContinue Reading
Raleigh: Abbey Forbes, the 18-year-old winner of the junior girls doubles championship at Wimbledon, has kept an inspirational book in her tennis bag at recent competitions and for all seven Wimbledon matches. The book, from her confirmation sponsor, Joan Monti, is a daily devotional called “Jesus Calling.” The best-seller wasContinue Reading
Vatican, July 27: A Jesuit priest from India has been appointed the Vatican observer for an international Church unity theology discussion between the Catholic Church and the Oriental Orthodox Churches set to be held in Lebanon in January, 2020. Fr Jiji Puthuveetilkalam, hailing from Alappuzha, Kerala, a research scholar withContinue Reading
Kottayam, July 27, 2019: In a major development in the rape case against Bishop Franco Mulakkal of Jalandhar, differences were found in the contents of two DVDs submitted by the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL), Thiruvananthapuram, to the Judicial First Class Magistrate Court, Pala, and the probe team. The original DVD,Continue Reading
By Jay Nies Father Angelus Minj begins his second quarter-century of priesthood as well as a challenging new assignment with a song in his heart. It is a hymn of praise and thanksgiving for 25 years of Priesthood and a promise to remain faithful to his calling, wherever that mayContinue Reading
By F. M. Britto Raipur, July 26, 2019: We have heard many stories of under-trial persons languishing in Indian jails for years. But Chhattisgarh has different types of under-trials. Three tortoises have been under legal custody for the last four years at Rajnandgaon in the central Indian state. The BasantpurContinue Reading
By Jan Stuyt, SJ Father Frans van der Lugt was killed in Homs five years ago. Since then, every day, Christians and Muslims have visited the garden of the Jesuit residence to pray at his tomb. Fr. Frans – in Arabic Abuna Francis – was a Jesuit priest originally fromContinue Reading
Malappuram, July 26, 2019: A bus conductor in Kerala was ordered to serve as a caretaker in a government children’s home for ten days as punishment for ill-treating a student. The driver and the conductor of the bus plying in Vazhikadavu-Parapanangadi route in Malappuram district ignored a student passenger’s requestContinue Reading
By F. M. Britto Parsahi, July 26, 2019: A Sacred Heart Sister (Pala) told me recently that her founder Venerable Father Mathew Kadalikkattil had informed his nuns that none of them would die of snake-bite. None of its members has died of snake bite in the 108 years old historyContinue Reading