By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, Sept 2, 2022: The Supreme Court of India on September 2 granted interim bail to activist Teesta Setalvad, in jail since June for alleged conspiracy to “destabilize the government” after the 2002 Gujarat riots. The interim bail would operate during the pendency of Setalvad’sContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kottayam, Sept 1, 2022: Mary Roy, an educator and a women’s rights activist, died September 1 after a brief illness in Kottayam, a town in the southern Indian state of Kerala. She was 89. She was survived by two children, son Lalit Roy and daughter ArundhatiContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Patti, Aug 31, 2022: Some unidentified miscreants on August 31 vandalized a Marian statue kept in front of a church in Patti, an old town in the northern Indian state of Punjab. They also set ablaze the car of the parish priest. According to a messageContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Varanasi, Aug 27, 2022: A powerful citizen’s movement in Varanasi has come to the streets demanding justice to Bilkis Bano, a rape survivor of the 2002 communal riots in the western Indian state of Gujarat. The Sajha Sanskriti Manch (SSM, United Forum for Cultural Diversity), networkContinue Reading
By Matters India reporter Panaji, August 26, 2022: Church groups joined civil society organizations in Goa to express solidarity with the victims of sexual assault such as Bilkis Bano of Gujarat. The August 24 meeting in Panaji, the state capital, condemned the premature release of rapists and murderers of theContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Patna, Aug 24, 2022: Father John D’Mello, a former Patna Jesuit provincial and renowned spiritual director, died August 24. He was 89. The death occurred at 7:30 am at Xavier Bhavan at Digha Ghat, a western suburb of Patna, where Father D’Mello was leading a retiredContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kolkata, Aug 19, 2022: Jesuit-managed St Xavier’s University in Kolkata has denied allegations that it has forced a teacher to resign. “It may kindly be specifically noted that St. Xavier’s University, Kolkata, has not forced any teacher to resign. And it is most humiliating to evenContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Jharsuguda, Aug 18, 2022: Father Petrus Kullu, provincial of the Divine World Society’s Eastern Indian province, died August 18 of suspected Covid-19 infection. The death occurred at 4:15 pm in the Covid ward of Vikash Hospital, Bargarh near Sambalpur, a major town in the eastern IndianContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kochi, Aug 17, 2022: A group of Christians belonging to different denominations in the southern Indian state of Kerala has decided not to avail church burials as part of their effort to reform Churches and promote organ and body donations. Catholics formed more than 90 percentContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, Aug 13, 2022: A joint conference of civil society and political parties in New Delhi August 13 resolved to fight against machine, money and media power that they say poses the gravest challenges to democracy in India. The conference, co-organized by Constitutional Conduct GroupContinue Reading