Mathura/Agra: The Christian community in Agra and Mathura on Sunday alleged police high-handedness over the arrest of seven people in Uttar Pradesh’s Mathura district on what it said were “fabricated charges of religious conversion”. The seven accused, now in judicial custody, were picked up by police from a house inContinue Reading
By Valson Thampu The good thing about television coverages of elections -or issues in general- is that you only have to look at the faces of the experts. You don’t need to listen to what they say; for you know exactly what each one of them would say, down toContinue Reading
Vatican City: Journalism must prize truth and reflection over sensationalism and clamor, Pope Francis told journalists on Saturday. “It is important that the criteria of judgement and information are offered patiently and methodically so that public opinion is able to understand and discern, and is not stunned and disoriented,” theContinue Reading
Christian schools in Uttar Pradesh’s Aligarh have been issued a warning by the Hindu Jagran Manch, a right-wing Hindutva group affiliated to Yogi Adityanath’s Hindu Yuva Vahini, not to celebrate Christmas as it may lure the students to Christianity. The HYM suspects Christmas celebration in schools, with a major population ofContinue Reading
Prof. Shah Alam Khan Farooque was a Kashmiri. He hated India. His cousin was killed by security forces while at a demonstration in Srinagar. This was 1990. We were classmates; I always took him head on for his anti-India rhetoric. Those were the times when no one minded his orotundityContinue Reading
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By Matters India Reporter Bhubaneswar: The documentary film, “Voices from the Ruins – Kandhamal in search of Justice” on the anti-Christian violence in Kandhamal in 2008 was screened on December, 18 at the Lohiya Academy in Bhubaneswar, capital of Odisha state. The filmmaker and directed K P Sasi along withContinue Reading
Matters India reporter Darjeeling: An inter-faith group in Darjeeling has shown the way to harmonious and peaceful living among members of all religious beliefs amid news of rising incidents of religious intolerance. The Darjeeling Inter faith group on December 17 held a two hour session on the theme “Peace andContinue Reading
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