Sept. 3, 2019: Salesian Missions, the U.S. development arm of the Salesians of Don Bosco, funded a project at Bosco Gramin Vikas Kendra, located in Maharashtra, India, to teach youth English language lessons. The goal was to help these young students learn the English language, introduce them to leadership skillsContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Hong Kong, September 3, 2019: Geneva-based International Christian Organisation of the Media (ICOM) has chosen the Sunday Examiner of Hong Kong for this year’s Titus Brandsma Award, an international recognition for promoting dialogue. The English newspaper was established in 1946 as a media activity of theContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Mayurbhanj, September 3, 2019: About 5,000 people attended the 20th death anniversary of Father Arul Doss who was killed by a fundamentalist mob in a remote village of Mayurbhanj district, Odisha. Christians and others from far and wide attended Mass on September 2 at Jamabani villageContinue Reading
Washington, September 3, 2019: President Donald Trump has nominated Indian-American Shireen Mathews as a judge of the US District Court for the Southern District of California. If confirmed, Matthews will be the first Asian Pacific American woman and first Indian-American to serve as an Article III federal judge in theContinue Reading
Thiruvananthapuram, Sept3, 2019: As India reached one step closer to historic moon mission as lander ‘Vikram’ separated from Chandrayaan-2 orbiter, 22-year-old Heidi Saadiya from Kerala was also making history. Saadiya, who made her debut as a reporter on September 2, is the first transgender broadcast journalist from the southern IndianContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kolkata, September 3, 2019: Jesuit Father Felix Raj, vice-chancellor of St. Xavier’s University, Kolkata, received the prestigious 2019 Sankalp Award, “Educationist of the Year” from Javed Khan, minister, Government of West Bengal at JW Marriot hotel on September 1, in the presence of Industrialists HP Budhia,Continue Reading
Colombo, Sept 2, 2019: Police say the remains of a suicide bomber who attacked a church in eastern Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday have been exhumed after a court order that they be buried elsewhere following public protests. Police spokesman Ruwan Gunasekara says the remains were removed from Kalliyankadu cemeteryContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, September 2, 2019: The Indian Catholic Press Association has mourned the death of a Divine World missionary who brought the Church’s communication of ministry to interior tribal villages of Odisha, eastern India. Hundreds of people attended the funeral services of Father Mathew Poovanpuzha onContinue Reading
Nairobi, September 2, 2019: Kenyan authorities have suspended visits to the gorges of the famous Hell’s Gate National Park in the Rift Valley after a flash flood killed six tourists and their driver. Paul Udoto, spokesman for the Kenya Wildlife Service, said those who died in the September evening tragedyContinue Reading
Mirzapur, September 2, 2019: The government of Uttar Pradesh has filed a case against journalist who shot a video of students of a school eating rotis with salt as their mid-day meal. In its complaint, the Block Education Office of eastern Uttar Pradesh’s Mirzapur district has accused the journalist, PawanContinue Reading