By Matters India Reporter Bhatpur, July 12, 2020: Pastor Munsi Deo Tando was abducted and murdered in near Bhatpar, a village in the Gadchiroli district of the western Indian state of Maharashtra. A group of Naxalites or Maoists came to the pastor’s house as he was concluding a 90-minute prayerContinue Reading
By Purushottam Nayak Padangi, July 11, 2020: Indira Pradhan is ready to give up her husband, three young children and relatives after getting to know Jesus Christ. The 42-year-old woman of Kandhamal, Odisha, says she had serious health issues for three years from 2013 and spent huge money on treatmentContinue Reading
Johannesburg, July 11, 2020: Police in South Africa say five people are dead and more than 40 have been arrested after an early-morning hostage situation at a church near Johannesburg. A statement says police and military who responded to reports of a shooting at the International Pentecostal Holiness Church inContinue Reading
New Delhi, July 11, 2020: Veteran actor Amitabh Bachchan tested positive for coronavirus, he revealed in a tweet on July 11 night. In his tweet, Bachchan, 77, said that he’s been admitted to a hospital. Bachchan also said his family members and staff have undergone tests for Covid-19 and theirContinue Reading
By Massimiliano Tubani and John Newton Königstein (Germany), July 11, 2020: A kidnapped Christian girl in Pakistan has phoned her parents to say she is pregnant after being raped by her abductor, who has imprisoned her in one room of his house. Tabassum Yousaf, the lawyer fighting for the freedomContinue Reading
New Delhi, July 11, 2020: A family in Kerala has demanded 1 billion rupees as compensation from the Italian government days after a UN court said India is entitled to compensation in the case of Italian Mariners firing on a fishing village. The family of Prijin A claims that heContinue Reading
Itanagar, July 11, 2020: At least eight people, including an infant, have been killed in two separate incidents of landslides in Arunachal Pradesh, which has been receiving heavy and incessant rainfall for the last several days. There have been reports of flash floods in the low-lying area as well, theContinue Reading
By Vijayesh Lal New Delhi, July 11, 2020: The absolute sense of impunity generated in the administrative apparatus of India by the Coronavirus pandemic lockdown, and the consequent absence of civil society on the streets and in the courts, has aggravated the environment of targeted hate and violence against ChristiansContinue Reading
Paris, July 10, 2020: Paris’ centuries-old Notre-Dame Cathedral will be rebuilt as it was before being engulfed in a fire last year, the public body in charge of its restoration said on July 9. The April 15, 2019 blaze destroyed the Gothic landmark and major tourist attraction, destroying the spireContinue Reading
By Jessy Joseph New Delhi, July 10, 2020: Covid-19 on July 10 claimed the second priest in the archdiocese of Madras-Mylapore. Father B K Francis Xavier, parish priest of Holy Trinity Church Mogappair East, died at Chennai’s St Thomas Hospital. He was 59. He is the fourth priest to dieContinue Reading
