Vatican City, March 15, 2020: Pope Francis’ Holy Week and Easter services, which normally draw tens of thousands of people, will be held without the public attending because of the coronavirus outbreak, a step believed to be unprecedented in modern times. It was not clear how the massive events willContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Jalpaiguri, March 15, 2020: Human rights activists across India have mourned the death of Abhay Flavian Xaxa, an Adivasi sociologist who died of heart attack on March 14 in West Bengal. He was 47. “We lost one of the tribal jewels in India,” says Divine WordContinue Reading
By Sumon Corraya Dhaka, March 15, 2020: Father John Chinnappan, an Indian Jesuit priest, has been working in priestly formation and preaching of retreats in Bangladesh for the past ten years. The native of Thandavasamuthiram village in Tamil Nadu, southern India, shares his missionary life experience in Bangladesh. “When IContinue Reading
By John Paul Indore, March 14, 2020: The Hindi section of the Catholic Church-run Radio Veritas Asia (RVA) celebrated its golden jubilee at Satprakashan Sanchar Kendra, Indore, Madhya Pradesh. The two-day joyous festival began on March 14. A documentary based on 50 years of travel to RVA, Manila, the PhilippinesContinue Reading
By Bikram Keshari Jena Bhubaneswar, March 14, 2020: Rhea Resham Bari is writing a new chapter for her tribal people. The young Ho girl from Odisha has beaten all odds to leave a mark in the fashion technology. Her success has proved one can achieve great heights despite development andContinue Reading
American Catholics’ immersion in Indian culture By Maria Wiering Minnesota, March 14, 2020: Despite the Center for Mission’s best efforts to prepare us, none of us knew quite what to expect as our plane cleared India’s Malabar coast and prepared for landing in Kochi, Kerala’s largest city. Our flights tookContinue Reading
By Purushottam Nayak Raikia, March 14, 2020: Unidentified miscreants looted a church in the Kandhamal district of Odisha, eastern India. Moses Digal, a Christian leader in Budamaha village under Raikia police station, told Matters India on March 14 that thieves broke the iron grill and two locks of a placeContinue Reading
By Vijayesh Lal New Delhi, March 13, 2020: As many as 366 incidents of hate and targeted violence against Christians occurred in India in 2019, according to the Religious Liberty Commission (RLC), an initiative of the Evangelical Fellowship of India (EFI). The report was released on March 13 in NewContinue Reading
By Jose Murickan Vaishali, March 13, 2020: The National Institute of Social Communication Research and Training (NISCORT) on March 13 organized a national media conference to address the theme ‘Contemporary Media Landscapes: Challenges and Opportunities.’ The conference was part of the annual alumni gathering the institute that functions under theContinue Reading
Colombo,March 13, 2020: News that Buddhist nuns have been denied identity documents in Sri Lanka made world headlines recently, exposing a complex reality that reflects unequal gender dynamics in monastic life. “The media has distorted the whole issue,” Buddhist preacher Rajitha Viduransi told Arab News, referring to a December reportContinue Reading
