By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, Jan 19, 2022: Activists who work at grassroots level seem surprised at the federal government’s admission in the Supreme Court that no state has reported starvation deaths. “Dalits, Adivasis and minorities die of starvation when the Supreme Court was told no starvation death hasContinue Reading
By Don Aguiar Mumbai, Jan 21, 2022: When a society denies human rights to some of its people it introduces a corruption that will rot its way through other people and institutions. Equally where corruption of any kind spreads it will soon eat away at human rights. Human rights areContinue Reading
By Dr. George Jacob Kochi, Jan 21, 2022: The world number one male tennis player Novak Djokovic was recently deported from Australia, where he had arrived to defend the Australian Open title for record tenth time, and to bag his 21st Grand Slam title. He was deported to native SerbiaContinue Reading
By F. M. Britto Raipur, Jan 21, 2022: The invitation from the parish priest to participate in the golden jubilee celebration of Pithora parish in my Raipur archdiocese delighted me. After my priestly ordination in May 1979, then Diocesan Administrator Pallottine Monsignor Francis Werner Hunold appointed me the assistant parishContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, Jan 20, 2022: Support and sympathy for a Catholic nun continue to pour in even a week after a court in Kerala dismissed her case against a bishop. Additional District and Sessions Court Judge G. Gopakumar on January 14 acquitted Bishop Franco Mulakkal ofContinue Reading
By Robancy A Helen Chennai, Jan 20, 22: A social activist from Tamil Nadu, southern India, has received this year’s Raoul Wallenberg Prize, a prestigious award given by the European Council. The ceremony took place in France and Arokiasamy Vincent Raj, popularly known as Evidence Kathir, received the award onlineContinue Reading
By Niladry Sarkar Kolkata, Jan 20, 22: Stunting among children aged five years and below has increased in seven districts of West Bengal, according to the latest National Family Health Survey, published in November 2022. The numbers of wasted and underweight children have also increased in 10 and nine districtsContinue Reading
By Virginia Saldanha Mumbai, Jan 20, 22: The acquittal of Bishop Franco Mulakkal of Jalandhar in the rape case filed against him by the former superior general of the diocesan congregation Missionaries of Jesus in June 2018 has shocked — not just her supporters — but many feminists and otherContinue Reading
By LiCAS.news Yangon, Jan 18, 2022: The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Myanmar has issued a statement last week calling for humanitarian assistance to thousands of people who have been displaced by the ongoing conflict in the country. In a letter of appeal released on January 14, the Church leaders calledContinue Reading
By John Paul Jaipur, Jan 18, 22: As many as 300 attacks on Christians have taken place in India in the past nine months, says a report of a fact-finding team. The report titled, “”Christians Under Attack in India,” was released January 18 at a press conference in Jaipur, capitalContinue Reading
