By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, July 17, 2023: Attempts by the Madhya Pradesh police to profile Christian missionaries have kicked up a controversy in the central Indian state where religious conversion is a hot issue. Father Alfred D’Souza, the newly appointed public relation officer of the Catholic Church inContinue Reading
By M L Satyan Bengaluru, July 17, 2023: During the last week certain YouTube video footages have touched my heart and stirred many thoughts and questions in my mind. The video footages from Himachal Pradesh, a popular tourist destination, showed flash floods, collapsing houses, breaking bridges, vanishing roads, landslides, floodContinue Reading
By chhotebhai Kanpur, July 17, 2023: Though a creature of the day, I am not particularly enthused by various “Days” like Father’s, Mother’s, Doctor’s, Constipation. I suspect that in the era of greeting cards (now extinct) they were invented by manufacturers like Archies, to promote their wares. However, I gotContinue Reading
By M L Satyan Bengaluru, July 14, 2023: A family known to me fought a property-related case for almost 15 years. The family consisted of aged parents and three sons. The sons were married and well-settled. Yet, they had an eye on the family property of 20 acres of land.Continue Reading
By Thomas Scaria Bangalore, July 16, 2023: Archbishop Peter Machado of Bangalore has urged Christian of all denominations to stand united in solidarity with the people of Manipur and press for justice. Addressing a united Christian rally in Bengaluru, capital of Karnataka state July 15, the archbishop insisted that everyContinue Reading
By Anny Gomes Pauline Publications, Bandra, Mumbai 400050, pp186, 2023, Rs 250 There is a saying “Don’t judge a book by the cover,” but with the book “You Can” by John Mason this maxim is challenged. “You can” is a book which gives us the wisdom of harnessing the powerContinue Reading
By Ancie Wilfred Nagpur, July 13, 2023: Our family had just shifted to this locality in Bengaluru. During our first week here, I went to the nearest church and took membership. It is called the Our Lady of the Sacred Heart of Jesus Church. The next Sunday we attended ourContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Imphal, July 12, 2023: Manipur’s Interfaith Forum for Peace and Harmony (IFPH) has organized rally appealing for an end to the ongoing violence and for initiating dialogue between the two warring ethnic groups. Some 500 people belonging to diverse religious and faith traditions, ethnic and spiritualContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kochi, July 12, 2022: A court of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on July 12 pronounced 6 of the 11 accused guilty, 13 years after they chopped of the hand of T J Joseph, a college professor in the southern Indian state of Kerala. The courtContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, July 12, 2023: Christian community in India has suffered as many as 400 incidents of violence in the first half 2023, says the United Christian Forum, an ecumenical group. A press statement from the forum titled, “Atrocities against Christians in India increasing drastically year onContinue Reading
