By Purushottam Nayak Kandhamal: Ashalota Nayak says her husband’s brave death in Odisha’s 2008 anti-Christian violence has inspired her to serve society. “My husband had no fear of death to witness Jesus as the radicals attacked him,” recalled the 46-year-old widow of Bikram Nayak while speaking to Matters India onContinue Reading
Changanacherry: The year was 1922 and the occasion a momentous one. V.V. John, former Vice Chancellor of the Jodhpur University, had just enrolled in a junior intermediate class of 125 students that functioned from a multi-story building in the vicinity of the Parayil Church in Changanacherry. Feeling slightly nervous, heContinue Reading
New Delhi: Indicating that they have no intention of vacating the protest site anytime soon, farmers at the Singhu border have erected shelters — sheds with metal frames and bamboo huts — fitted with air-coolers or air-conditioners (ACs) to tackle Delhi’s searing summer. Even tractor trolleys, which have become aContinue Reading
Sujata Jena India continues to grapple with the second wave of COVID-19: hospitals are running out of beds, patients are running out of oxygen and people are running out of hope. As of June 11, within the previous 24 hours India had reported 94,052 daily new COVID-19 cases with 6,148Continue Reading
By Priyadarshini Sen New Delhi: When 80-year-old Jesuit Father Joseph Kalathil took 32 letters in a cloth bag from India to Pakistan in 2012, little did he know he’d become a pivotal messenger of cross-border peace. With the peace letters written by schoolchildren to friends unknown to them across theContinue Reading
By Patrick Hansda New Delhi: Bahdur Bhai says he is alive because two Catholic nuns had come to his village in Gujarat, a western Indian state, when he was struggle with Covid-19. After the resident of Retna village in Surat district complained of fever and other ailments his relatives tookContinue Reading
By Saji Thomas Chachana: When some 30 people thronged a clinic run by three Carmelite sisters in the western Indian state of Gujarat early April 7, Sr. Lisset Vadakkekara saw it as an unusual sign to bear witness to her role as a Catholic nun and a follower of ChristContinue Reading
New Delhi: At a time when the world is grappling with staggering amounts of plastic waste and its environmental ramifications, a woman in India’s northeastern state of Assam has hit upon a novel idea to address the problem while also helping poor women earn a livelihood from it. Rupjyoti SaikiaContinue Reading
Old Goa: The Museum of Christianity is located in the 17th-century Santa Monica Monastery in the heart of Old Goa, a beautiful district of churches, monuments and ancient monastery ruins. The church is attached to a three-story stone building. The museum is in the strait. Over the past three years,Continue Reading
Mangalore: Alisha (not her real name), an 18-year-old abuse survivor, thanks Apostolic Carmel nuns for giving her “a new lease on life and a future.” The curly haired girl has joined a training school for nurses after completing 12th grade at Carmel School, managed by nuns of the 150-year-old indigenousContinue Reading