By Tejaswi Ravinder Hyderabad: After mass terror attacks in 2009, inter-ethnic marriages in north-western China’s Xinjiang have become very rare. In 2013, when 24-year-old Mawlan, born to Uyghur parents and a musician by profession, secretly married his girlfriend, Ma Jie, a Han, they attracted media’s attention. “I acted first andContinue Reading
Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has flayed a pastoral letter read in some churches of the Quilon diocese against the southern Indian state’s Left Democratic Front government. The sanctity of the pastoral letters will be questioned by devotees, the chief minister said March 26. They (a section of churchContinue Reading
New Delhi: The Bajrang Dal has denied involvement in a controversial March 19 incident where two nuns and two students were forced alight from a train in Jhansi over an alleged forced conversion complaint and questioned by railway police. According to reports, Bajrang Dal activists and police questioned the nuns,Continue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Chiang Mai: A webinar organized by the Christian Conference of Asia (CCA) has stressed community engagement to defend the right to water for all people. “Churches together with other faith-based organizations and civil society movements can play a major role in raising awareness on the globalContinue Reading
By Anjuman Ara Begum Barpeta: Sixty-two-year-old Rejia Ahmed felt jittery as it was the first time that she had been to a public meeting. On March 8, Rejia was invited to preside over the daylong program to celebrate International Women’s Day in a remote Kandapara village in the Barpeta districtContinue Reading
Vatican City: As the world continues to adopt measures to combat the ongoing health emergency, the Office of Papal Charities, in response to Pope Francis’s numerous appeals that no one be excluded from receiving the Covid-19 vaccines, is taking action to accompany the most vulnerable. A statement released on MarchContinue Reading
Cairo: Dredgers have joined efforts to refloat Ever Given, a giant container ship grounded in the Suez Canal for over two days, and to free the waterway for other ships. As of March 24, the ship was partially refloated and placed alongside the Canal bank, said Gulf Agency Company (GAC),Continue Reading
By S.N. Sahu Bhubaneswar: In a significant development, the Naveen Patnaik-led Odisha government has passed a resolution in the state legislative assembly to include non-violence in the Preamble of the Constitution. The resolution was passed on March 23 that marked the commencement of a year-long celebration of the centenary ofContinue Reading
Shahjahanpur: While Covid-19 cases continue to rise across India, and many states have banned public celebrations and large gatherings in view of Holi, Shab E Barat, and Easter in the coming days, a town in Uttar Pradesh, is busy covering its mosques in plastic sheets. The local administration of ShahjahanpurContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Chennai: A Catholic priest died March 26 after falling from the terrace of a major seminary near Chennai where he was teaching for the past several years. According to a message from Monsignor L John Robert, administrator of Vellore diocese, Father Velanganni Vinothraj died because ofContinue Reading
