Kochi: Turning beads into elegant rosaries isn’t merely Vilma Antony’s sustenance. It’s her spiritual calling. She counts the prayers of thanksgiving, devotion, and confession as she strings her silver beads, interspersing this activity with gospel readings at her village home a few miles from the South Indian port city ofContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi: An Indian magazine has won a prestigious American award for upholding conscience and integrity in journalism. The Harvard University’s Nieman Foundation for Journalism on February 8 chose New Delhi-based The Caravan, a journal of politics and culture, for the 2021 Louis M. Lyons AwardContinue Reading
By Nirmala Carvalho Mumbai: Caritas India will send immediate aid to people in the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand who have been hit by floods caused by a great avalanche. Cardinal Oswald Gracias, president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India, said this while talking to AsiaNews on February 8, aContinue Reading
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on February 9 protected Congress leader Shashi Tharoor and six journalists from arrest in connection cases related to tractor rally on Republic Day. Multiple sedition First Information Reports were registered against them for allegedly tweeting and sharing unverified news that a young farmer died atContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi: The Supreme Court has stayed the Rajasthan High Court order on school fees on pleas from Catholic schools and others in the western Indian state. The apex court gave the interim order on February 8 while holding a joint hearing on the Special LeaveContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi: The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI) has expressed its grief over the Uttarakhand glacier calamity and offered its condolences to the family members of those who have died or are missing in the incident. The death toll from the disaster rose to 28Continue Reading
New Delhi: Two teams of glaciologists will head to Joshimath-Tapovan to study the causes of massive flood caused after a part of the Nanda Devi glacier broke off in Uttarakhand’s Chamoli district, the director of the Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology said. Kalachand Sain said two teams of glaciologists –Continue Reading
Indore: A day after the Supreme Court granted him ad-interim bail, stand-up comedian Munawar Faruqui has been released from Indore jail. Faruqui was among five people arrested on January 2 for allegedly hurting religious sentiments. Upon his release from prison, Munawar Faruqui said, “I would not want to comment aboutContinue Reading
Chamoli: Seven people were killed and 170 missing on February 7, after a glacier break in Uttarakhand’s Chamoli district triggered massive flooding. Another report said ten bodies have died. Many villages were evacuated as floods of the Alaknanda and Dhauliganga rivers swept away five bridges, damaged homes and the nearbyContinue Reading
Vatican City: Pope Francis prayed Feb 7 for justice and national stability in Burma as tens of thousands protest the Feb. 1 military coup. “These days I am following with great concern the developments of the situation that has arisen in Myanmar,” the pope said Feb. 7, using the country’sContinue Reading
