By Purushottam Nayak Raikia, March 14, 2020: Unidentified miscreants looted a church in the Kandhamal district of Odisha, eastern India. Moses Digal, a Christian leader in Budamaha village under Raikia police station, told Matters India on March 14 that thieves broke the iron grill and two locks of a placeContinue Reading
By Purushottam Nayak Partoma, March 5, 2020: More than 35,000 people who on March 5 attended a Marian festival in a village under Kandhamal district of Odisha prayed for the victims of the recent sectarian violence in the national capital. “The victims of the Delhi riot are suffering like whatContinue Reading
New Delhi, Jan 25, 2020: As many as 3,706 persons have been acquitted of the charges of communal violence and 474 persons were convicted in connection with Kandhamal riots which allegedly broke out after the assassination of Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati in 2008. An affidavit file in the Supreme Court byContinue Reading
By Nirmala Carvalho Mumbai, August 25, 2019: Kandhamal is growing in faith, the people have no fear, and they can face any challenge with faith and trusting in God, says Archbishop John Barwa of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar. On August 25, Christians around India marked Kandhamal Day, commemorating the 11th anniversary of theContinue Reading
By Rajesh Bagh G. Udayagiri, Dec. 31, 2018: As cold wave sweeps across the Kandhamal district of Odisha state in eastern India reels many remain indoors, except women vendors. They have to brave the 6 degree Celsius to sell vegetables in the street — 25 rupees a kilo of beansContinue Reading
By Purushottam Nayak Simonbadi, Dec. 28, 2018: Four survivors of the worst anti-Christian violence in modern India were ordained as Capuchin priests on December 27. “God chose you like Moses to be faithful, responsible to lead the people,” Bishop Sarat Chandra Nayak of Berhampur, who led the ordination ceremony, toldContinue Reading
By Purushottam Nayak Raikia, Dec. 16, 2018: A Catholic school in Odisha that survived two rounds of anti-Christian violence set aside past memories and pledged to serve society as it celebrated annual day. “The school started on August 2, 2004, the same year Our Lady of Charity Church, Raikia, facedContinue Reading
By Madan Sualsingh Daringbabadi, Dec.11, 2018: A tribal cultural group comprising women of Kandhamal district in Odisha, eastern India, has challenged society to change its attitude on gender stereotyping. Jana Shakti (people’s power), the cultural team of Jana Vikas (people’s development), an NGO, raised the challenged on December 11 atContinue Reading
They prayed for peace and harmony in IndiaContinue Reading
There has been little effort at rebuilding livesContinue Reading