Thiruvananthapuram, Feb. 21, 2020: An aided school in Thiruvananthapuram city, Kerala, allegedly insisted on revealing the caste and religion of a child for giving admission in first-standard. St. Mary’s Higher Secondary School at Pattom, which is among the largest schools in Asia in terms of students’ strength, has been caughtContinue Reading
By Madan Sual Singh Chennai, Feb 19, 2020: Social Workers’ Association for Staff and Students and Subalterns’ Alliance for Peace (SAP) organized a two-day “National Conference on Peace and Justice: A Subaltern Perspective. A subaltern is someone with a low ranking in a social, political, or other hierarchy. It canContinue Reading
New Delhi, Feb 18, 2020: The Delhi government plans to enroll 17,000 entrepreneurs as volunteers to help hone the “entrepreneurial mindset” among school students. Deputy Chief Minister and Education Minister Manish Sisodia on February 18 directed the Entrepreneurship Mindset Curriculum (EMC) to engage the volunteers. “We need to create aContinue Reading
By Anuradha Nagaraj Chennai, Feb 14, 2020: Police in India have reunited thousands of missing and trafficked children with their families using a new facial recognition app that campaigners said was a “game changer” in tackling the problem. Tens of thousands of children go missing every year in India andContinue Reading
Ahmedabad, Feb 14, 2020: A hostel in Gujarat has forced 68 girls to remove their underwear to prove they weren’t menstruating. The incident occurred on February 13 at Shri Sahajanand Girls’ Institute (SSGI) in the Bhuj district of the southwestern Indian state. The incident reportedly took place after the hostelContinue Reading
By Saurav Kullu Kolkata, Feb 10, 2020: Jyotsna D’Souza from Vasai, Maharashtra, will lead the Indian Catholic Youth Movement (ICYM) for the next two years. The 20-year-old final year student of Bachelor of Accounting and Finance at Mumbai’s Wilson College is the second woman to lead the youth wing ofContinue Reading
By C V Joseph Chennai, Feb 5, 2020: More than 300 young people from several states in India pledged to work for peace in society at a three-day program in Chennai. “We, the Franciscan youth, pledge that we shall be instruments of peace in our families, parishes and the society,”Continue Reading
By Felix Anthony Guwahati, Feb 4, 2020: Bishop George Pallipparambil of Miao on February 4 reminded young Catholics that they are the “now” of the Church called to serve society and the nation. “In every state we have had some heroes and heroines who stood against all odds for theContinue Reading
By Maria Francis Bengaluru, Jan 24, 2020: The first time I heard about the YOUCAT was when some of my youth group friends came back from World Youth Day in Madrid, Spain, in 2011. YOUCAT stands for Youth Catechism of the Catholic Church. As a book, it is a manualContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, Jan 24, 2020: St. Anne’s Girls’ High School Mandar, near Ranchi, won the National Inter-School Band Competition 2019-2020 in the girls’ category. Ministry of Human Resource Development, Department of School Education and Literacy organized it on January 23 at Thyagaraj Stadium, New Delhi. RameshContinue Reading