By Santosh Digal Manila, October 29, 2019: Sajan K George is the president of the Global Council for Indian Christians (GCIC) that promotes freedom of religion and tolerance in the country. It advocates the rights of people, especially Dalits, the Other Backward Class, children, women and the religious minorities. MattersContinue Reading
Kochi, Oct.28,2019: A section of dominant Catholic Christian clergy has urged the state government to take urgent steps in resolving the long-pending ordeal of over 300 families evicted in Moolampally and distress of rubber farmers reeling under a price crash. In a letter to Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan Archbishop JosephContinue Reading
By Santosh Kumar New Delhi, Oct. 28, 2019:The single biggest takeaway from the by-elections to five Assembly constituencies in Kerala, the results of which were announced last week, is that the voters have shown caste and community satraps their place. The electorate not only underlined their secular credentials again byContinue Reading
John McCarthy, Q.C. Modern slavery now entraps an estimated 40 million people around the world, 10 million of them children. Never before have so many been exploited through forced labor, child labor or human trafficking. In the United States, at least 400,000 people are enslaved, according to the latest figuresContinue Reading
Matters India Reporter Kathmandu, 28 October 2019 — A group 13 young people from various parts of Nepal are undergoing communications workshop christened CommLab, an annual feature of World Catholic Communications body called Signis, in Nepal’s capital city Kathmandu. Last year, a similar programme was held at Don Bosco CommunicationsContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Karakkamala, October 28, 2019: Sister Lucy Kalappura, who was expelled from the Franciscan Clarist Congregation (FCC), wants to appeal in person against her dismissal before the Pope and the Church’s highest tribunal. In her letter to Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, prefect of the Pontifical Congregation for theContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kansabel, October 28, 2019: An anti-trafficking crusader nun in Chhattisgarh has done it again. She has rescued two more teenage girls from the central Indian state who were sold to brothels in Pune and Goa. The girls, aged 19 and 16, are siblings of a BhilContinue Reading
By Valea We have heard of the saying “Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, Isai: Aapas Mai Sab Bhai-Bhai” (Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, Christian: We Are All Brethren To Each Other). For some people, the phrase represents a deep longing for inter-community harmony in a world that is deeply fractured in the name ofContinue Reading
Siliguri, 26 October, 2019 — The Rector Major of the Salesians of Don Bosco addressing a group of Salesians gathered at Siliguri in North Bengal said, “the greatest problem the Church faces today is not the scandal of sexual abuse of minors by its clergy, but the scourge of clericalismContinue Reading
By Gaurab Subba Sonada, Oct. 27, 2019: The Women’s Cell of Salesian College Sonada Darjeeling along with Radio Journalists (RJ) of Radio Salesian organized a rally on 25th October 2019 to create awareness on the need of child support and prevention of human trafficking. The rally was lead by AssistantContinue Reading