By Matters India Reporter Guwahati, August 18, 2019: The Indian media has reported cases of human trafficking of girls and boys from northeastern India. Incidents of racial attacks on people from the region are reported from other parts of India, including New Delhi, national capital. The Church in northeastern IndiaContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, August 17, 2019: Caritas India, the social service arm of the Catholic Church, collaborates with state governments and NGOs to bring succor to millions of people affected the erratic monsoon with heavy rains. “We are coordinating with the state governments and disaster response agenciesContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kochi, August 17, 2019: A Catholic religious congregation in Kerala has asked the mother of an expelled nun to take her back. The Franciscan Clarist Congregation (FCC) sent a letter to Rosamma Scaria asking her to receive her daughter Sister Lucy Kalappura, who was dismissed fromContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, August 17, 2019: The “centenary flag” of All India Catholic Union (AICU) received an enthusiastic welcome when it reached the national capital on August 17 after having travelled length and breadth of India. Archbishop Anil J.T Couto of Delhi received the flag at NewContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Patna, August 17, 2019: Students and staff of Patna’s St Xavier’s College of Management and Technology on August 17 offered floral tributes to India’s “Mountain Man” on his 12th death anniversary. Dashrath Manjhi, a daily wage laborer, got the title after carving a path through aContinue Reading
Mumbai, August 16, 2019: Bollywood actor Madhavan Balaji Ranganathan, popularly known as R. Madhavan, says he respects all religions as his own and that he has the good fortune to pray at every darga, gurudwara and church when a temple was not around. The 49-year-old actor was responding to aContinue Reading
Kozhikode, August 16, 2019: A 43-year-old man of Kozhikode’s Mukkom village was arrested for allegedly divorcing his wife through instant triple talaq. The suspect was arrested on August 15 by the Mukkom police following a warrant issued by the Thamarassery Judicial First Class Magistrate Court. The woman had approached theContinue Reading
By C V Joseph Bengaluru, August 16, 2019: Archbishop Peter Machado of Bangalore on August 16 convened an emergency meeting of various organizations of the archdiocese to review the flood situation in Karnataka and plan relief and rehabilitation. The archdiocese has taken a series of decisions to raise the requisiteContinue Reading
Chennai, August 16, 2019: With pre-testing for Census 2021 currently underway, a political party in Tamil Nadu has called for the enumeration of Christians and Muslims of Dalit origin in the Scheduled Caste list. D. Ravikumar of Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK, Liberation Panthers Party) has reiterated its demand that DalitContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Alwar, August 14, 2019: A sessions court in Alwar on August 14 acquitted all six persons accused of beating to death a Haryana dairy farmer two years ago. Pehlu Khan was allegedly lynched by a mob of cow vigilantes on the Jaipur-Delhi National Highway. Additional districtContinue Reading