Yusuf Ansari New Delhi, March 6, 2020: A week after grim stories are being uncovered from hospitals, mortuaries, and police stations, it seems there is no end to misery for Muslims affected by the northeast Delhi riots. Muslim families who are already shaken by the worst communal violence in decadesContinue Reading
Palestinian officials on Thursday closed the storied Church of the Nativity in the biblical city of Bethlehem indefinitely over fears of the new coronavirus, weeks ahead of the busy Easter holiday season. The announcement by the Palestinian tourism ministry threatened to devastate the vital tourism industry in the town whereContinue Reading
Lucknow, March 6, 2020: The Uttar Pradesh government has put up hoardings in prominent intersections in state capital Lucknow, with names, addresses and photos of some of those accused of violence during protests against the citizenship law in Lucknow in December last year. The people named on the hoardings haveContinue Reading
By Maria Stephen Bhopal, March 5, 2020: More than 300 farmers and their organizations from 17 states who attended a Church-initiated conference have urged the Indian government to encourage organic farming and set up more seed banks. “The future of good farming has to be environment friendly,” asserted the MarchContinue Reading
By Purushottam Nayak Partoma, March 5, 2020: More than 35,000 people who on March 5 attended a Marian festival in a village under Kandhamal district of Odisha prayed for the victims of the recent sectarian violence in the national capital. “The victims of the Delhi riot are suffering like whatContinue Reading
By Lydia O’Kane Vatican city, March 5, 2020: It’s two years until the next World Youth Day, which will take place in the city of Lisbon in 2022 and in that intervening time, Pope Francis is inviting young people to reflect on the themes for the diocesan World Youth DaysContinue Reading
New York, March 5, 2020: An Indian-origin doctor pleaded guilty to illegally giving controlled substances to six patients, including one who suffered from opioid addiction and later died of a drug overdose. Gurpreet Singh Bajwa, 49 of Fairfax, Virginia temporarily lost his medical license in 2012 following an investigation byContinue Reading
Bharuch, March 5, 2020: Vijay Kumar, a resident of the Tamil Nadu, has sought help from his friend Abdulkhuda Mohd Hanif Shaikh to build a temple. Shaikh, also from Tamil Nadu’s Paraipatti village, has been living in Gujarat’s Baruch for a decade. He has collected 300,000 rupees from his friendsContinue Reading
New Delhi, March 5, 2020: Reporting in India has never been without its risks, but journalists say attacks on the media during the deadly communal riots between Hindus and Muslims in New Delhi in the last week of Febryart show the situation is deteriorating. One reporter was shot and survived,Continue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Secunderabad, March 6, 2020: The Federation of Telugu Churches (FTC) has rejected the Amendment Act (CAA), National Registry of Citizens (NRC) and National Population Register (NPR). FTC also urged the federal and state governments across the country to scrap CAA, NRC, and NPR. “While we rejectContinue Reading
