New Delhi: A 33-year-old woman in the national capital paid with her life, just because her four-year-old son urinated in front of her neighbor’s house in north-east Delhi’s Aman Vihar. The four-year-old boy’s mother, Savitri Rana, was slashed several times with a razor by a minor who lives in herContinue Reading
By Arun Ferreira Mumbai: Although we received news by late evening on October 8, 2020, of Father Stan Swamy’s arrest, we were quite shocked to see him the next morning in the adjourning barrack conversing with inmates in his impeccable Hindi. I was at that time lodged in a cellContinue Reading
By P T Mathew New Delhi: The crisis of credibility is a wake-up call for the Church in India, and the best way to regain is to follow Jesus, who “lived what he taught and what he taught, he lived,” say Catholic theologians in the country. The eroding credibility theContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi: National Solidarity Forum (NSF), comprising more than 70 human rights organization, has set up two awards to honor victims and survivors of the 2008 mass violence in Odisha state’s Kandhamal district. The forum plans to hold a virtual national webinar on August 25 toContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kochi: All the 456 priests of the Archdiocese of Ernakulam-Angamaly have written to Pope Francis saying they want to continue to offer Mass facing people, a practice that the Syro-Malabar eparchy has followed for the past 50 years. The memorandum was sent to the prefect ofContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kochi: The Kerala High Court on August 12 said that Cardinal George Alencherry must face trial in the land deal case. The court upheld the verdict of a district sessions court that on August 24, 2019, asked the cardinal and two others to stand trial inContinue Reading
Raigarh: A villager was trampled to death by a wild elephant in Chhattisgarh’s Raigarh district on August 11, the second such incident in the region in one month, officials said. Mohitram Yadav (39) was attacked by the jumbo in Ongna village under Dharamjaigarh forest division at around 3 am whenContinue Reading
Bastar: The Chhattisgarh government has been funding tribal communities to develop and maintain their traditional places of worship, known as Devgudis, so that they aren’t lured by anyone to convert to another religion, said state industry minister Kawasi Lakma on Aug. 10. Lakma, a senior Congress leader from Bastar, whichContinue Reading
Rome: Cardinal Joseph Zen says he thinks Traditionis custodes may not have a disastrous effect on the celebration of the Traditional Latin Mass, even if he doubts the intentions of some TLM critics closely connected to Pope Francis. “I think the effect of the motu proprio may not be thatContinue Reading
Kinnaur: Eleven people have died and around 30 are missing after a landslide in Himachal Pradesh’s Kinnaur this afternoon left several vehicles buried under debris. A state-run bus, a truck and a few cars were trapped after the landslide blocked the Reckong Peo-Shimla highway. The bus, travelling to Shimla, reportedlyContinue Reading
