By C V Joseph Bengaluru: Archbishop Peter Machado of Bangalore has urged Catholic journalists to speak for God and stand by truth. “You are our eyes, ears and even heartbeat,” the prelate said February 14 while talking to some Catholic journalists who had assembled at the Archbishop’s House. Stressing theContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kochi: The body of a 45-year-old nun was found February 14 in a quarry in the southern Indian state of Kerala. Sister Jessina Thomas, a member of the Missionary Congregation of the Daughters of St. Thomas, was missing from St Thomas Convent at Vazhakala, a suburbContinue Reading
By Shruti Tomar Bhopal: Chhatar Singh Katre, a teacher in a small village school run by the government in Madhya Pradesh’s Balaghat district organized a get-together and a prayer meet on January 27. The occasion, his daughter said, was to celebrate her college admission. Before the program started, the policeContinue Reading
By Cedric Prakash Ahmedabad: Decoding is never child’s play! But when one is entrusted with the task of sifting and sieving the past, present and future, the fact from the fiction, the possibility from the impossibility, the probability from the improbability, the simple from the complex, then one is notContinue Reading
By Bishop George Pallipparambil Miao: Introduction Leader: Human migration from place to place has been a life reality from the early history of human beings. Majority of the people who live in some parts of the world and claim it to be their homeland also will realize that their ancestorsContinue Reading
New Delhi: The right to protest and express dissent comes with certain duties and cannot be held “anytime and everywhere,” the Supreme Court said in an order, dismissing a review petition on the anti-citizenship law protests held in Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh in 2019. Twelve activists had filed a review petitionContinue Reading
Chennai: At least 15 people have died and many were injured in an explosion at a firecracker factory in Tamil Nadu’s Virudhunagar district, around 500 kilometers from Chennai. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has expressed grief over the blast. “Fire at a firecracker factory in Virudhunagar, Tamil Nadu is saddening. InContinue Reading
New Delhi: A powerful earthquake of magnitude 6.3 struck in Tajikistan on February 12 with tremors felt across North India and Delhi, prompting people to rush out of their homes. The epicenter of the earthquake was in Tajikistan – about 450 km from Srinagar in Jammu and Kashmir, according toContinue Reading
By chhotebhai Kanpur: Quite frankly, I must admit that I don’t like the title! How can love be bracketed with dark secrets? It should not, but so often is; hence this attempt to remove the dark secrets and bring love out into the sunshine. Let me begin with the storyContinue Reading
Colombo: The head of Sri Lanka’s Catholic church once again expressed disappointment on Feb 11 over the probe in the 2019 Easter Sunday blasts that tore through three churches and as many luxury hotels, cautioning the government that if justice is not served, he would approach international organisations. Malcolm CardinalContinue Reading
