By Don Aguiar Mumbai, Feb 16, 2024: 12th Fail unfolds on the screen as a poignant biographical drama, bringing to life the real-life story of IPS (Indian Police Service) officer Manoj Kumar Sharma and IRS (Indian Revenue Service) officer Shraddha Joshi. It is based on the 2019 eponymous non-fiction bookContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Mangaluru, Feb 15, 2024: A convent school in Mangaluru, southern India, on February 15 denied the allegations from some Hindu nationalist groups that a nun teacher had made derogatory remarks against Hindu deities. St. Gerosa High School’s denial came three days after it suspended the nun,Continue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Mangaluru, Feb 13, 2024: A Catholic school in the southern Indian city of Mangaluru has suspended one of its nun teachers for allegedly making derogatory remarks about Hindu deities. The students of Gerosa High School on February 12 were made to chant “Jai Sri Ram” (HailContinue Reading
By Thomas Scaria Belthangady, Feb 12, 2024: Option for the poor and the marginalized is the only mission of the Syro-Malabar Church in India, asserted Major Archbishop Raphael Thattil while inaugurating the silver jubilee celebration of Belthangady diocese in Karnataka. Belthangady is the first Syro-Malabar diocese in the southern IndianContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, Feb 11, 2023: Getting killed by wild animals that enter human settlements is never acceptable, asserts the head of the Syro-Malabar Church as another person was trampled to death by an elephant in the southern Indian state of Kerala. “One more life has been lostContinue Reading
By M K George Rome, Feb 11, 2024: With a rare kind of lucidity, courage and prophesy, the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI) in early February, decried the rising polarisation in the Indian society and called for the upholding the secular ethos of the nation. They showed the audacityContinue Reading
By Isaac Gomes Kolkata, Feb 11, 2023: For more than six years, the Supreme Court of India has been contending with a case on electoral bonds – basically the fundraising practices of political parties. The importance of the case has gained momentum in view of the imminent Lok Sabha election.Continue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Ambikapur, Feb 8, 2024: A Catholic nun has been remanded in judicial custody in connection with the death by suicide of a school girl in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh. A court in Ambikapur, a major city in Sarguja district, on February 7 remanded CarmeliteContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, Feb 8, 2024: The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India, the first episcopal body in the world to study Artificial Intelligence (AI) seriously, has asked the country’s 174 dioceses to educate their more than 20 million members to responsibly use digital tools. “AI holds out theContinue Reading
By Thomas Scaria Bengaluru, Feb 7, 2023: The Church in India is facing unprecedented situation in the current socio-political scenario that threatens religious freedom, says Archbishop Andrews Thazhath of Trichur, who was re-elected the president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI) for another two-year term. “The religious freedomContinue Reading
