By Matters India Reporter Raghavpur, April 25, 2020: The Right To Food Campaign has commended the West Bengal government for its decision to provide free ration to more than 14.6 million people in the eastern Indian state. The government has decided to supply 5 kg rice to people from MayContinue Reading
By Purushottam Nayak Bhubaneswar, April 25, 2020: Catholics of Odisha’s Berhampur diocese say their Christian identity could invite harassment citing the recent arrest of a priest who allegedly broke lockdown rules. According to Jitendra Nayak, pastoral council secretary of the St. Peter’s Catholic Church of Mohana parish, two policemen inContinue Reading
By Jacob Peenikaparambil Indore, April 25, 2020: Today, April 25, is the fourth death anniversary of Swami Sadanand, the first Catholic priest in India to donate his body to medical college. After his death on April 25, 2016, the body of the member of the Carmelites of Mary Immaculate wasContinue Reading
By Yusuf Ansari New Delhi, April 24, 2020: A group of former civil service officers of India has written an open letter to all state chief Ministers and heads of federally-ruled regions to check the persecution of Muslims accusing them of spreading the coronavirus pandemic. The 101 officers, who hadContinue Reading
Dubai, April 24, 2020: The owner of Kerala’s biggest house died of a massive heart attack far away from home in Dubai. The death on April 23 was confirmed people close to Joy Arakkal, owner of the Arakkal Palace in Kerala’s Waynad district. He was 54. Arakkal was the managingContinue Reading
Mumbai, April 25, 2020: On April 11, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi wore a white homemade cloth mask during a video conference call with political leaders around the country. Five days earlier, his government had recommended that Indians use homemade face masks in densely populated cities to protect themselves fromContinue Reading
Mumbai, April 24, 2020: The rape of a 6-year-old girl in India is a “blot on society,” says Archbishop Leo Cornelio of Bhopal. The archbishop was responding to the attack in a village in Damoh district of Madhya Pradesh state on April 23 evening. The girl was abducted outside herContinue Reading
By Sujata Jena Bhubaneswar, April 24, 2020: A Catholic police officer in Odisha has won kudos from her superiors for her dedication and commitment to duty. Debajani Chhatar “postponed her wedding scheduled for April 27 to remain available for “corona” duty “and make world safer for all the brides. MyContinue Reading
By chhotebhai Kanpur, April 24, 2020: The Tokyo Olympics 2020 have been postponed indefinitely because of that wicked little pathogen – the Coronavirus. The irony should not be lost on the world we live in. The Olympic motto is “Citius, Altius, Fortius” the Latin words for “Faster, Stronger, and Higher.”Continue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, April 24, 2020: An association that has fostered Christian-Muslim cooperation more than four decades has greeting the Muslim community that on April 24 began Ramadan, a month of intense fasting and prayers. “We have experienced that Ramadan is the happiest time and eagerly awaitedContinue Reading
