By Ravi Kaushal, Sagrika Kissu New Delhi: Most women farmers, who had gathered at Tikri and Singhu borders of the national capital, told NewsClick that the farmers’ protest has been a life changing experience for them, as through these protests they became aware about their legitimate rights. Scarves of allContinue Reading
By Anuj Cariappa New Delhi: Jesuit-managed Xavier School of Management is setting up a Centre for Gender Equality and Inclusive Leadership at Delhi-NCR Campus to make a meaningful impact on the inclusion of women in economically gainful activities. The school is the new name of the Jamshedpur-based Xavier Labour RelationsContinue Reading
Onboard Papal plane: Speaking to journalists on the flight to Rome, Pope Francis retraces the stages of his historic visit to Iraq: the meeting with “the wise and man of God” Al Sistani, his feelings before the destroyed churches in Mosul, his emotion at the words of the Christian motherContinue Reading
Kolkata: Seven people were killed in a huge fire that broke out in an office building in central Kolkata’s Strand Road on March 8 evening. Among the dead are four firemen, a police officer, a Railways officer and a security person, officials said. Two others are missing. Five of theContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Thiruvananthapuram: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has held a Catholic priest and a nun responsible for the mysterious death of a 12-year-old girl at a Church center in Kerala ten years ago, report some online Malayalam news websites. The body of Shreya Benny, a seventhContinue Reading
Mosul: Pope Francis has urged Iraq’s Christians to forgive the injustices against them by Muslim extremists and to rebuild as he visited the wrecked shells of churches and met ecstatic crowds in the community’s historic heartland, which was nearly erased by the Islamic State group’s horrific reign. “Fraternity is moreContinue Reading
By Sister Luisa Derouen Kentucky: Courtney Sharp is the first transgender woman I met, back in 1999, and we have remained friends all these years. I got an email from her recently. She had just read the document from June 2020 written by retiring Archbishop Robert Carlson regarding transgender people.Continue Reading
Colombo: Catholics in Sri Lanka on March 7 attended Mass dressed in black, with prayers and protests calling for justice for those killed in co-ordinated suicide bomb attacks on Easter Sunday two years ago. Church bells tolled and prayers were chanted at 8:45am, the time when bombs were detonated almostContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kolkata: A popular priest of Calcutta archdiocese has resigned as the principal of a prestigious school amid reports that he would soon join the pro-Hindu Bharatiya Janata Party. Father Rodney Borneo, who was principal of Loyola High School for the past five years, on March 5Continue Reading
Ur: Here is the full prepared text of Pope Francis’ address at an interreligious meeting, delivered March 6, 2021, in the Plain of Ur, the birthplace of Abraham in Iraq. Dear brothers and sisters. This blessed place brings us back to our origins, to the sources of God’s work, toContinue Reading
