By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, Sept 7, 2023: The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India has offered its prayers to the global leaders, delegates, and organizers of the G20 (Group of Twenty) Summit taking place in New Delhi. “As the G20 Summit unfolds in our nation’s capital, on behalf ofContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, Sept 6, 2023: Father Ebi Poruthoor is the latest Catholic priest in the southern Indian state of Kerala to donate one of his kidneys. The 31-year-old priest of the diocese of Palghat on September 4 donated the kidney to Sister Bini Maria, his sister. TheContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, Sept 6, 2023: The Supreme Court on September 6 dismissed a public interest litigation (PIL) seeking directions to the federal government to take steps against fraudulent religious conversions, specifically with respect to Hindus and minors Bharti Tyagi, the lawyer who appeared for the petitionerContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, Sept 6, 2023: Jesuits in northeastern India are mourning the sudden death of a seminarian from Manipur in the early hours of September 6 at a village in Meghalaya state. Scholastic Joseph Wungmayon died of a massive heart attack around 2 am in BangongsingweggreContinue Reading
By Cedric Prakash Ahmedabad, Sept 4, 2023: Teachers, and very sadly so, are today in the news, for all the wrong reasons! In Uttar Pradesh’s Muzaffarnagar, a school teacher made the students of her class come up and slap a Muslim child in the classroom. She was caught on cameraContinue Reading
By M L Satyan Bengaluru, Sept 4, 2023: In June this year I had an opportunity to conduct training for teachers in Jharkhand. During the training I found most of them “syllabus-focussed.” Their main concern was completing their syllabus and preparing students for examinations. This seems to be the caseContinue Reading
By Tessy Jacob Bhubaneswar, Sept 4, 2023: We attribute many qualities to a teacher – guru, motivator, second parent, visible gods, and guide. Teaching is the most rewarding job that helps one walk with students over the years and see them grow up as useful citizens. Society acknowledges the professionContinue Reading
By Tejaswi Ravinder Battala Hyderabad, Sept 3, 2023: On July 26, Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi moved a no-confidence motion in the Lok Sabha over Manipur violence. Lok Sabha speaker Om Birla accepted the no-confidence motion against the National Democratic Alliance’s government. Although the Lok Sabha speaker admitted the motion onContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kolkata, Sept 1, 2023: A delegation from Skopje in North Macedonia, the birthplace of Saint Mother Teresa visited Kolkata, the base of her charity works around the world. The delegation visited the Mother House of the Missionaries of Charity to pay their homage to the saint.Continue Reading
By Purushottam Nayak Baliguda, Sept 1, 2023: The survivors of Odisha’s anti-Christian violence and their supporters have demanded the implementation of the Supreme Court’s 2016 order on compensation to the Kandhamal victims. They demanded in a memorandum prepared by about 2,000 people who observed on August 31 the 15th KandhamalContinue Reading
