By Chris Herlinger New York, Aug 17, 2022: Jyoti Thottam, senior opinion editor at The New York Times, has written a widely praised history of a group of Sisters of Charity of Nazareth recently published by Viking, Sisters of Mokama: The Pioneering Women Who Brought Hope and Healing to India.Continue Reading
Abia, Aug 16, 2022: A priest and a seminarian kidnapped in Abia State, southeast Nigeria, were released unhurt August 15. Spiritan Father Chinedu Nwadike, who is deputy registrar at the Spiritan University Nneochi, and the seminarian were abducted August 12 at gunpoint shortly after driving out of the university gatesContinue Reading
By Donna Birrell London, Aug 16, 2022: The Coptic Archbishop of London has urged Christians to pray for the victims of a church fire in Egypt. At least 41 people died in the blaze at the Coptic Abu Sefein church in Giza August 14 morning. Eighteen children, aged between threeContinue Reading
By Felix Anthony Miao, August 16, 2022: Christian youth in the northeastern Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh on August 15 organized a special service to pray for the country on the occasion of its 75th year of Independence. “As we mark today the platinum jubilee of our beloved country’s Independence,Continue Reading
Matters India Reporter Midnapore, August 15, 2022: What started as a casual visit to a Correctional Home (Central Prison) in Berhampore in Murshidabad district of West Bengal, is now 25 years old and founder has turned 80 years old on August 15. Salesian Fr Scaria Nedumattathil of Calcutta province isContinue Reading
Rome, Aug 14, 2022: Pope Francis has met a group of transsexuals in the Vatican, the fourth such encounter in 2022, the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano reports. “The Pope’s attention to people who live this fragility with great suffering is opening up unimaginable hopes,” said Sister Geneviève Jeanningros and FatherContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Bellary, Aug 14, 2022: A youth was August 14 arrested for hoisting an Indian national flag with a “Jesus” sticker on the top of his house in Karnataka. The police in Bellary, a major town in the southern Indian state, arrested one Raghu, a resident ofContinue Reading
By Cedric Prakash Ahmedabad, Aug 13, 2022: The official propaganda states that, “Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav is an initiative of the Government of India to celebrate and commemorate 75 years of independence and the glorious history of it’s people, culture and achievements. This Mahotsav is dedicated to the people ofContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, Aug 13, 2022: A joint conference of civil society and political parties in New Delhi August 13 resolved to fight against machine, money and media power that they say poses the gravest challenges to democracy in India. The conference, co-organized by Constitutional Conduct GroupContinue Reading
By M L Satyan Bengaluru, Aug 13, 2022: National Skill Development Mission (NSDM) was launched on July 15, 2015. The mission’s task is to create convergence across sectors and states in terms of skill training activities. Further, to achieve the vision of ‘Skilled India,’ the mission would not only consolidateContinue Reading
