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Church renovator keeps silver jubilee of priesthood
Matters India Reporter Kolkata, November 16, 2024: A church renovator priest of Baruipur diocese located in the suburbs of Kolkata
Pilgrim Cross, Mary icon journey through Goa parishes
By Lissy Maruthanakuzhy Panaji, Oct 25, 2024: A cross made of 198 pieces of wood and an icon of Mother
Nun who became “mother” to Malappuram Muslim women dies
By Thomas Scaria Mangaluru, Oct 24, 2024: Church leaders have mourned the death of a well-known social worker and reformer,
Moral theologians address challenges in biomedical ethics in India
By Carlos Luis Secunderabad, Oct 23, 2024: Around 60 Catholic moral theologians from across India have spent three days in
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Church renovator keeps silver jubilee of priesthood
Matters India Reporter Kolkata, November 16, 2024: A church renovator
10 new-borns die in Jhansi hospital fire
By Matters India Reporter Jhansi, Nov 16, 2024: Ten newborns
Fact-finding team blames Odisha administration for mango-kernel deaths
By Matters India Reporter Bhubaneswar, Nov 15, 2025: A four-member
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Fact-finding team blames Odisha administration for mango-kernel deaths
By Matters India Reporter Bhubaneswar, Nov 15, 2025: A four-member team that probed food poisoning deaths in an Odisha village blames the eastern Indian state’s negligent public distribution system among other reasons. “The families in Mandipanka village had not received ration for three months,” the team, commissioned by the Odisha
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Nuns’ development center transforms village girls in northeast
By George Kommattam Guwahati, Oct 14, 2024: Lalhriatpuii says that the time she spent in Centre for Development Initiative has transformed her life. “All that I learned from here has given me hope,” says the young girl from Tualbungin Mizoram, a state in northeastern India. Lalhriatpuii (people in Mizoram goes
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Agra Catholic college alumnus among world’s largest history prize winners
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, Oct 22, 2024: A former student of Agra’s St Peter’s College has brought glory to the Catholic institution by winning the world’s largest history prize this year. Tripurdaman Singh is among nine research scholars to win the Dan David Prize that celebrates the next
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Kandhamal survivor joins medicine after clearing India’s toughest exam
By Purushottam Nayak Bhubaneswar, Oct 24, 2024: A young Catholic woman, who had, as a child survived the anti-Christian violence in Odisha’s Kandhamal district, credits Jesus for her admission to a medical college this year after clearing the National Eligibility and Entrance Test (NEET). “It is the power of Christ
INTERNATIONAL
Mexico’s Stan Swamy assassinated
By Irudhaya Jothi Bankura, Oct 22, 2024: Jesuit Father Marcelo Pérez, who like his Indian counterpart Stan Swamy, advocated indigenous and labour rights, was assassinated in Mexico, according to information received on October 22. Father Pérez, a member of the
South Korean author awarded 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature
By Matters India Reporter Stockholm, Oct 11, 2024: The 2024
Brazilian nun wins UN refugee prize for work with migrants
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, Oct 9, 2024: A
TECHNOLOGY
China cuts children’s online gaming to one hour
The National Press and Publication Administration told state-run news agency Xinhua that game-playing would be only allowed between 8pm to 9pm. It also instructed gaming companies to prevent children playing outside these times. Earlier this month a state media outlet branded online games “spiritual opium”. Inspections of online gaming companies
Multiple global websites crash in Internet outage
New Delhi: A huge swathe of national and international news sites crashed on June 8 night including the New York Times, CNN and the BBC. Many sites were offline for up to an hour after an issue affecting their cloud platform technology. In New Zealand, TVNZ OnDemand, RNZ and Trade
Google Doodle to feature throwback series of popular past Doodle games
April 27, 2020: For the next two weeks, Google will feature a throwback series of Google Doodle games. Starting today and for the next two weeks, Google will feature one past Doodle game everyday for people to play and pass their time as they stay home. “As COVID-19 continues to
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Are we responding to the cry of the poor?
By Cedric Prakash Ahmedabad, Nov 14, 2024: On October 15, the 2024 Global Hunger Index was released ranking India 105 out of 127 countries; India has a level of hunger that is serious. A recent World Bank report stated, “almost
Donald Trump and Kerala Christians
By M K George Rome, Nov 10, 2024: My own experience during the past week and the social media messages confirm that many Christians in Kerala, and Christians of Kerala origin in the U S, are delighted about the victory
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Exhibition of paintings by Capuchin priests concludes
Thrissur: Stigmata, An exhibition of paintings by Fr. Joby Maryson Capuchin and an exhibition of pen sketches by Fr. R.V. Capuchin was held at Kerala Lalithakala Acadami in Thrissur from 30 April to 5 May 2018. Fr Joby Marson Capuchin, an ardent admirer of mural paintings, show-cased about 12 sets
Dangal gets ranked as number one film in China
Ever since, Aamir Khan’s 2016 smash hit Dangal has beaten all box office records to become the highest grossing Hindi film worldwide, crossing the Rs 2,000 crore (20000 million) mark, a limit even Bahubali 2: The Conclusion had failed to surpass, the film has continued to be in news for its
Kerala Tourism to hold festival of traditional folk arts
Thiruvananthapuram: Utsavam 2018, conceived as an attempt to rejuvenate the traditional folk art forms of Kerala, will be organized by the Kerala Tourism Department from January 6 to 12, 2018, across all 14 districts of Kerala, said Kadakampally Surendran, Minister for Tourism, Cooperation and Devaswom, today. The festival, organised in