By Matters India Reporter Ghazipur, April 23, 2023: A court in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh has remanded six Protestant Christians, including two pastors, in judicial custody for allegedly violating a state law that restrains religious conversion. Among the remanded is a 1.5-year-old girl whose parents are inContinue Reading
By Lalita Roshni Lakra Sargaon, April 23, 2023: Hundreds of people on April 23 flocked to a remote village in eastern India to participate in the first pilgrimage that commemorated the 62nd death anniversary of the first Servant of God from the Adivasi community. Jesuit Archbishop Felix Toppo of RanchiContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Jaipur, April 22, 2023: Pope Francis on April 22 appointed Father Joseph Kallarackal, a priest of Ajmer diocese, as the new bishop of Jaipur in the northwestern Indian state of Rajasthan. This was announced at noon in the Vatican and its corresponding time in India. AnnouncingContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Bilaspur, April 20, 2023: A top court in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh has granted bail to 10 Protestant Christians who have been languishing in jail for nearly four months for allegedly inciting violence. The Bilaspur High Court on April 19 released on bail theContinue Reading
By Robancy A Helen Chennai, April 20, 2023: Dalit Christian groups in Tamil Nadu have welcomed a resolution passed in the state legislative assembly to grant Scheduled Caste status for their people. “We are very grateful to the chief minister for the resolution that was passed in the assembly asContinue Reading
By Thomas Scaria Kochi, April 19, 2023: Aravindaksha Menon, an upper caste Hindu who discovered Christ through the reading of the Vedas, died of heart attack in Kerala. The death occurred on April 19 as he was being taken to a hospital in Kottayam with complaints of chest pain. HeContinue Reading
Matters India reporter Siliguri, April 19, 2023 — Kolkata Salesians have partnered in joint mission efforts for a second time in recent years with St Joseph’s province of Vincentian Fathers by offering existing Salesian facilities in Nepal and India. Bishop Vincent Aind of Bagdogra in Siliguri, blessed another existing SalesianContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Bina, April 19, 2023: A Catholic school in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh has sought police protection following threats from a rightwing student body. A delegation of 30 teachers, majority of them females, on April 18 called on Sub-Divisional Magistrate and local police stationContinue Reading
By M L Satyan Bengaluru, April 19, 2023: Last week an NGO director in Tamil Nadu sent me a news clipping. It said that in just one day three young girls were missing in Ramanathapuram district of the southern Indian state. The report mentions about the network of human traffickers,Continue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kasargod, April 18, 2023: A parish under the Kottayam Knanaya Catholic archdiocese has created history when it allowed a parishioner to marry from outside the closely knit community without losing his membership. The parish priest of St Anne’s Knanaya Catholic Church at Kottody in Kerala’s KasargodContinue Reading
