By Matters India Reporter Chandigarh, April 2, 2019: An inquiry has been ordered into a Catholic priest’s allegations that the police who had raided his residence have not disclosed the full amount of cash seized from him. Punjab’s Director General of Police Dinkar Gupta on April 1 marked an inquiryContinue Reading
By Robancy A Helen Chinnasalem, April 1, 2019: A mob, allegedly instigated by Hindu right-wing groups, attacked a Catholic school in Tamil Nadu after one of its girl students committed suicide. More than 200 people on March 26 came on a truck and rampaged Little Flower Higher Secondary School, Chinnasalem,Continue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Miao, March 31, 2019: The Church in Arunachal Pradesh on March 31 expressed shock and anguish over vandalism of Marian grottoes at two different places in the northeastern Indian state. The grottoes belong to Itanagar and Miao, the two dioceses of the state. Statues of MotherContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Jalandhar, March 29, 2019: Officers of the Enforcement Directorate on March 29 arrested a prominent priest of Jalandhar diocese and three others for keeping unaccounted money, an Indian news agency tweeted. Asian News International (ANI) identified the priest as Father Antony Madassery, director of Navjeevan (newContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, March 28, 2019: Social activists and others on March 28 condemned the arrest of noted economist Jean Dreze earlier in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand in the day. “Jean Dreze is a saint-economist, a potential Nobel awardee who lived in slums, written andContinue Reading
By Felix Anthony Guwahati, March 28, 2019: The Catholic bishops of northeastern India have issued a seven-point guideline to help people choose right leaders. A pastoral letter addressed to Catholics of the region and issued by Archbishop Dominic Jala, president of the North East India Regional Bishop’s Council, called uponContinue Reading
Vatican City, March 27, 2019: Pope Francis has amended canon law to create a new mechanism for dismissing a religious who has deserted their community. Under the new law, promulgated by the Pope in an apostolic letter issued “motu proprio,” superiors can declare a member dismissed ipso facto if theyContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kochi, March 25, 2019: Catholic major superiors in Kerala have condemned increasing attempts by media and other groups to denigrate religious life as the lot of the uneducated and dissatisfied. “To disparage religious life and present it in society as meaningless is highly condemnable,” the KeralaContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, March 25, 2019: India’s largest forum for Protestant and Orthodox Churches on March 24 launched weeklong prayers for a new government. “Constitutionally, the Indian state cannot have any appeasement to any religion whether majority or minority. The contemporary tendency to polarize people in theContinue Reading
Chennai, March 24, 2019: The Madras High Court has held that salaries and grants-in-aid to nuns and priests are liable to attract tax deducted at source. “In our opinion, the provisions of Income-Tax law are dry, plain and simple, apolitical and areligious in character,” the court said in a recentContinue Reading