Lucknow: An increasing number of members from the Christian community are now adopting the Hindu tradition of cremating the bodies. They are then taking the ashes in urns to the graveyard for entombment. “With the increasing number of deaths taking place in the second wave of the pandemic, land isContinue Reading
Chandigarh : Live-in relationships are socially and morally not acceptable, the Punjab and Haryana High Court recently observed while declining to grant protection to a couple seeking protection of their life. The petitioner couple — a 19-year-old woman from Uttar Pradesh and a 22-year-old man from Punjab — had movedContinue Reading
New Delhi: At least 13 people were killed in Gujarat as the severe cyclonic storm Tauktae entered Saurashtra region early May 18, whipping up winds close to 180 kmph. The cyclone has reduced in intensity and lay about 35 km west of Ahmedabad late in the evening, according to theContinue Reading
By Felix Anthony Guwahati: In the wake of rising number of Covid cases in North East India, the Catholic Church of the region has formed a core team to respond to the crisis. The primary task of the team, set up during an online meeting on May 18, is toContinue Reading
Irudhaya Jothi SJ Unokoti: Women of a tribal community in the northeastern Indian state of Tripura show the way to Aatmanirbhar Bharat (self-reliant India). They take a fist full of rice before putting it in the cooking pot, and this rice is collected and shared with the poor in theContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Mumbai: Jesuit tribal activist Father Stan Swamy was on May 18 taken to a hospital in Mumbai to give Covid-19 vaccine. The octogenarian Jesuit was then brought back to the Taloja jail near Mumbai where he was lodged on October 9, 2020. The vaccine was givenContinue Reading
By Irudaya Jothi Kolkata: May 10 was the saddest day for the Dalit Christians around the world as their leader and liberator Jesuit Father P Antonyraj passed away due to Covid 19. Father Antonyraj “was a prophet of our times who challenged the caste-ridden Church hierarchy,” said Jesuit Father AContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Patna: Six colleges promoted by Christian minority community have figured in the list of Education World India league table of the country’s 10 most admired privately-promoted autonomous undergrad colleges for 2020-2021. The league table is based on the survey of 1,823 academics and 2,133 final yearContinue Reading
Gaza City: The sole Catholic priest in the Gaza Strip has warned of the severity of the recent violence between Israel and Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip. More than 200 people have died in Gaza, 59 of whom are children, the BBC reports. In Israel, 10 have died, ofContinue Reading
Vatican City, Pope Francis has appointed Fr. Stephen Chow, S.J. as the next bishop of Hong Kong. Chow, 61, has served as the provincial of the Jesuits’ Chinese Province since 2018. In that role, he led the Jesuit order in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, and mainland China as the Vatican-ChinaContinue Reading
