By Victor Edwin SJ New Delhi, July 2, 2020: Maqbool Ahmed Siraj is a journalist based in Bangalore. He did his Master’s in Journalism from the University of Madras in 1978 and started his career from the Indian Express there. He has worked for several journals, news agencies and otherContinue Reading
Mumbai, Aug 2, 2020: Women have captured yet another male bastion – traffic signals this time. In a first in the country, 120 traffic signals across 13 junctions between Dadar and Mahim in Mumbai will feature female pedestrians in traffic lights. The initiative is taken under the Brihanmumbai (Great Mumbai)Continue Reading
By Cara Bentley London, August 2, 2020: The Church of England is encouraging all churches to talk about clergy care and wellbeing. It has released three documents, one for members, one for clergy and one for bishops, about how to look after local vicars and curates. The advice for churchContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporters New Delhi, Aug 2, 2020: Cardinal Oswald Gracias, president of Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India, says a positive side of the coronavirus pandemic is the realization among city dwellers that they cannot live without migrants. “For the first time we realized the importance of migrants forContinue Reading
Kochi, Aug 2, 20202: Father Babu Panattuparambil of the Archdiocese of Thrissur has been appointed the rector of Santa Anastasia Minor Basilica in Rome and the chaplain of the Syro-Malabar Catholics living within the territories of the Diocese of Rome. The 57-year-old priest will take charge of the new ministryContinue Reading
New Delhi, Aug 2, 2020: While India continues to reel under Covid-19, a number of places that were once seen as the gold standard for pandemic responses are now also seeing surges in cases, as the coronavirus continues to spread around the world unabated. Australia’s hard-hit Victoria state on JulyContinue Reading
By Varghese Alengaden Indore, Aug 1, 2020: Various Hindutva organizations under RSS are making grand preparations for the construction of Ram temple in Ayodhya. They consider it liberation from mental and cultural slavery. A senior RSS functionary Dattatreya Hosabale said, “Ram Janmabhoomi movement was not just about religion but aboutContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, Aug 1, 2020: A Catholic laity forum in India has urged the papal representative in the country to set up a seven-member committee to probe various allegations against Bishop K A William of Mysore. The committee members “should be mandated to make public theirContinue Reading
By Fr Victor Ferrao Rachol (Goa), Aug 1, 2020: The federal government on July 29 announced the New Education Policy to promote education among people of India. The policy covers elementary education to colleges in both rural and urban India. This is the third national policy on education. The firstContinue Reading
Faisalabad, July 31, 2020: A Christian mother in Pakistan has achieved a significant breakthrough in her struggle to win back her abducted 14-year-old daughter amid reports that she was being groomed to enter the sex industry. Hearings have been scheduled for August first week at Lahore High Court in theContinue Reading
