Kuala Lumpur: A fire that blocked the only exit to an Islamic school dormitory killed 23 people, mostly teenagers, on the outskirts of Malaysia’s capital early on Thursday (Sept 14), officials said. A government official said a wall separating the victims from a second exit “shouldn’t have been there.” FirefightersContinue Reading
Thiruvananthapuram: The newly-formed Parassala diocese of the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church will be inaugurated on the Nazareth Home School campus, Balaramapuram, at 2 pm on September 23. The occasion will also witness the consecration of the first Metropolitan of the diocese, Bishop Thomas Mar Eusebius. Cardinal Baselios Cleemis, head of theContinue Reading
New Delhi: The apex body of Roman Catholic Church in India Wednesday appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to “curb the spread of hatred by CM Raghubar Das” a month after the Jharkhand government passed a bill restricting religious conversions on August 12. In his strongly worded letter, Catholic BishopsContinue Reading
An Open Appeal to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to intervene to stop hatred in Jharkhand Honourable Prime Minister, I am making this appeal to you with much sorrow and anguish but also with hope. You must be aware of the recent happenings in Jharkhand, a State ruled by the Bharatiya Janata Party.Continue Reading
Pope Francis has met with Father Uzhunnalil who was held by Islamic militants in Yemen for 18 months. The Indian government announced on Tuesday that Salesian Father Tom Uzhunnalil – a missionary priest kidnapped in Yemen on March 4, 2016, at a home for the elderly in the southern portContinue Reading
Brussels, Belgium: The board of the Belgian Brothers of Charity announced Tuesday it will continue offering euthanasia to patients in their psychiatric centres, despite being ordered by the Vatican to stop doing so. The “Broeders van Liefde” board had been given until the end of August to comply with the Vatican order,Continue Reading
By: Matters India Reporter Kochi: Hundreds of people on September 12 attended a special Mass in St Mary’s Cathedral in Kochi to thank God for the release of an Indian Salesian priest held in captivity in Yemen. Father Tom Uzhunnalil was released earlier in the day 18 months after IslamicContinue Reading
Launched 65 years ago, India’s family planning program has been stressing on limiting the size of families. The first such initiative in the world has been fairly successful. But Zoram Nationalist Party (ZNP) wants to do away with its implementation in Mizoram as the regional political outfit feels if theContinue Reading
Fr. Cedric Prakash, SJ The celebrated German playwright, poet and fierce anti-Nazi critic Bertolt Brecht once wrote: “in the dark times, will there also be singing? yes, there will also be singing about the dark times”. Apt words, as we remember the celebrated journalist and human rights defender Gauri Lankesh,Continue Reading
Thiruvananthapuram: In a relief to thousands of transgenders in the state, the Kerala government is all set to open exclusive TG clinics and begin sex-change surgery in the state-run medical colleges for the first time. The step is part of the state governments various initiatives to bring the marginalised groupContinue Reading