By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, Sept 23, 2020: Evangelical Fellowship of India (EFI) has called on the Lok Sabha Speaker to expunge remarks of a member against Graham Stuart Staines who was burned to death along with his two sons, in Odisha, eastern India, 21 years ago. The ChristianContinue Reading
New Delhi, Sept 23, 2020: India witnessed 31 incidents of attacks on Christians in August this year. Majority of those attacks were reported from Uttar Pradesh in north and Chhattisgarh in central India, both states reporting 11 incidents each. The month saw a significant rise in such incidents as theContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Alappuzha, Sept 23, 2020: The body of Archbishop Joseph Chennoth, the Vatican’s apostolic nuncio to Japan, was laid to rest at his native parish in the Alappuzha district of Kerala, southern India The funeral September 22 was held with full state honors at St Thomas Church,Continue Reading
Vatican , Sept. 22, 2020: The Vatican has launched a think-tank at an event called Liberating Mary from the Mafia. The move has been made to prevent mobsters from hijacking Catholic tradition to claim God is on their side. According to an AP report, Pope Francis is backing efforts toContinue Reading
Thiruvananthapuram, Sept. 23, 2020: The Kerala government led by Marxists has allowed a Christian group a special concession in the exam calendar on the grounds of religion. Following the order, nine twelfth grades of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church will give their state board ‘improvement’ exams after sunset on on SeptemberContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Bengaluru, Sept 22, 2020: Father Paul Achandy, the former prior general of the Carmelites of Mary Immaculate, has taken over as the new Chancellor of Christ University in Bengaluru. Father Achandy, on assuming office on September 21, addressed the faculty and students of the university. TheContinue Reading
Matters India Reporter Darjeeling, September 22, 2020 — A college in the Darjeeling hills hosted an on-line lecture on making sense of contemporary Indian scenario on September 22. An alumnus of Salesian College Sonada in the Darjeeling hills currently professor at Salesian University Rome gave the 11th Verzotto Memorial lectureContinue Reading
London: Over the weekend a report emerged that threatened to create a political scandal for U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson. The Italian newspaper La Repubblica reported that Johnson had flown to Perugia, Umbria, on September 17. The newspaper further added that it had made inquiries about the Johnson trip, and that theContinue Reading
Urban life has always been fantasized in cinema. Even Bollywood loves to show the glamour and convenience that comes with life in the city. It’s no wonder that cities see increasing immigration of people from rural areas every year. But these movies fail to show the downsides that come withContinue Reading
In Mahesh Narayanan’s new film ‘C U Soon’, a man named Jimmy (Roshan Mathews) meets and falls in love with Anu (Darshana Rajendran) mainly through video conference calls and text messages. Their dating exercise turns into a serious relationship before Jimmy and his techie cousin Kevin (Fahad Faasil) discover mysteriousContinue Reading
