Ramankary: A Kerala church opened the gates of its cemetery to cremate a Hindu woman whose family lacked enough space to conduct the last rites at their modest property. Hindu families in certain rural areas of Kerala do not prefer to conduct the last rites at public crematoriums. So whenContinue Reading
Matters India reporter Siliguri, : A collaborative research study conducted by a college in Darjeeling and another in South America on education in pandemic times and published in Scopus platform is featured in World Health Organisation’s website. Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals,Continue Reading
New Delhi: The United Nations Postal administration has decided to issue a commemorative stamp honoring Saint Mother Teresa. Mother Teresa was born in 1910 and died in 1997. According to the UN Postal Administration, the $1.80 Mother Teresa’s stamp is intended to be used from the U.N. post office atContinue Reading
By Ladislaus Louis D’Souza Mumbai: Seventy-four years after Independence from foreign rule, India is saddled with a monumental modern problem — disposal of the multifarious garbage. The two-pronged issue is care for the environment and the practicalities of garbage disposal at various levels. The resolution of the issue involves unlearningContinue Reading
Jajpur: In a bizarre case of human revenge, a 45-year-old tribal man reportedly bit a snake to death after the latter bit him in a remote village in Odisha’s Jajpur district. Kishore Badra of Gambharipatia village under Salijanga panchayat under Danagadi block was returning home after working in his paddyContinue Reading
Rome: A Christian couple who spent seven years on death row in Pakistan on false blasphemy charges has been granted asylum in a European country. According to human rights organization ADF International, Shagufta Kausar and Shafqat Emmanuel arrived in Europe this week after their death sentence was overturned by theContinue Reading
Rome: While pandemic restrictions will prevent Catholics in the Philippines from traveling to the 52nd International Eucharistic Congress in Budapest next month, the country’s bishops have organized their own online celebration of the Eucharist. The Philippines bishops had intended to send a delegation of 500 Catholics to the September 5-12Continue Reading
By Don Aguiar Mumbai: Is this change becoming reality, as India celebrated 75 years of Independence this August 15? It is time to evaluate the progress of the Constitutional promises of a dignified life to the common man. The right to a dignified life without discrimination against any individual orContinue Reading
By Franklin Caesar Thomas New Delhi: I have read in Matters India an article written by A. Pushparajan on August 5 under the headline, “Caste discrimination in Indian Church: Should Pope intervene?” This article is trying to explain some points raised by Pushparajan. According to the Vatican website (Week ofContinue Reading
By Lavina D’Souza Mumbai: Rabindranath Tagore once remarked, “I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can’t make it through one door, I’ll go through another door — or I’ll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.” This optimism is whatContinue Reading
