By Matters India Reporter Guwahati, June 24, 2023: The Assam Christian Forum on June 24 expressed its solidarity with the people of Manipur where an ethnic violence has raged for the past 53 days. “We earnestly pray for the killings and violence to come to an immediate halt. Our heartsContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Tura, June 23, 2023: More than 50,000 students from some 120 Catholic educational institutions in Meghalaya’s Garo Hills on June 23 conducted prayer assemblies for peace in Manipur. Students of primary, secondary and higher secondary schools and colleges in five districts participated in the event heldContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kochi, June 23, 2023: The ongoing violence in the northeastern Indian state of Manipur was condemned by the Mathruvedi (mothers’ forum) of the Syro-Malabar Church, based in Kerala, south. Representatives from 24 dioceses who attended the June 23 international senate meeting of the forum prayed forContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, June 22, 2023: The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India has directed its faithful to observe July 2 as day of prayer for the suffering people of the violence-hit Manipur in the Northeast. A June 22 message from conference president Archbishop Andrews Thazhath of TrichurContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Panaji, June 23, 2023: Cardinal Filipe Neri Ferrão of Goa and Daman, president of the Conference of Catholic Bishops in India, has urged people to use the social media responsibly and avoid becoming social hermits. The cardinal said this June 23 while releasing the Indian editionContinue Reading
By Yogendra Yadav New Delhi, June 22, 2023: The Bharatiya Janata Party government’s predictable move to reignite the controversy over the Uniform Civil Code has invited predictable responses. Opposition leaders have flayed this move. Questioning the need for the Law Commission to take this up again, several opposition leaders haveContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Ahmedabad, June 22, 2023: The national association of Catholic journalists in India on June 22 demanded the dismissal of the government in the strife-torn northeastern Indian state of Manipur. “It is 50 days since violence broke out in Manipur on May 3. Though the reality isContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Jabalpur, June 22, 2023: The Madhya Pradesh High Court on June 22 granted anticipatory bail to a Catholic bishop and nun accused of attempting to convert to Christianity railway destitute children in a diocesan orphanage. A single judge bench of the high court, based in Jabalpur,Continue Reading
By Thomas Scaria Mangaluru, June 22, 2023: The Claretian congregation has pooled resources from its five provinces in India to support the victims of ethnic violence in Manipur. Violence has ravaged the northeastern Indian state since May 3 after the Majority Hindus belonging to the Meitei community clashed with theContinue Reading
By Thomas Scaria Mangaluru, June 21, 2023: Catholic religious congregations in India seem to have taken a “wakeup call” seriously from their leader. “We cannot be silent when the country is burning with divisive forces everywhere,” Sister Maria Nirmalini, president of the Conference of Religious India, said in a JuneContinue Reading
