Panaji, Feb 26, 2020: The BJP on Wednesday appreciated US President Donald Trump for refusing to get drawn into the controversial CAA issue during this India visit, saying this scuttled attempts by some people who had created anti- government atmosphere to get him speak on the matter. BJP national spokesmanContinue Reading
By Purushottam Nayak Berhampur, Feb 26, 2020: Around 3,000 Catholics who on February 26 gathered in a church in Odisha state’s “silk city” for Ash Wednesday services prayed for coronavirus victims all over the world, especially those in China. ”We are specially praying for the victims of coronavirus of ChinaContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, Feb 26, 2020: The National Council of Churches in India (NCCI) on February 26 condemned the “dastardly attack on the vulnerable and the weak” in different parts of the national capital in the past four days. “Humanity has been knocked down one more time. OurContinue Reading
By Nirmala Carvalho Mumbai, Feb 26, 2020: As India prepares to welcome its newest saint, a controversy over his name and its relationship with the Hindu caste system has come to the fore. A Vatican decree on announced a miracle had been approved for Blessed Devasahayam, clearing the way forContinue Reading
By Virginia Saldanha Mumbai, Feb 26, 2020: Cardinal Oswald Gracias’ interview with the National Catholic Reporter (NCR) at the Vatican makes interesting reading. The cardinal acknowledges a bias among the members of the Catholic Church’s all-male hierarchy against giving women more leadership rolesHe also admits that he and his peersContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Pune, Feb 26, 2020: Retired Bishop Valerian D’Souza of Poona, who was known as the singing prelate of India, died on Feb 25. He was 86. The funeral will be held at 11:30 am on February 27 at St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Pune. Bishop D’Souza was bornContinue Reading
Kochi, Feb 26, 2020: A Kerala High Court judge said on Feb. 25 he has received an anonymous letter threatening that he would be burnt alive for directing authorities to take over a church near Kochi from the Jacobite faction and hand it over to the Orthodox group as perContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, Feb 26, 2020: Archbishop Anil Couto of Delhi has asked Catholic parishes and Church institutions in the archdiocese to offer relief to those affected by the communal riots raging in the national capital. “At this trying moment when communal riots have suddenly gripped Delhi letContinue Reading
London, Feb 26, 2020: Indian-origin Suella Braverman, appointed the UK’s new Attorney General in British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s reshuffled Cabinet earlier this month, was on Monday formally sworn in for the post at a ceremony at the Royal Courts of Justice in London. The 39-year-old minister, a barrister andContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, Feb 25, 2020: Even as India prepared to welcome the American President Donald J Trump, who on his two-day visit to India reportedly plans to discuss, among other things, the issue of religious freedom in India with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Religious LibertyContinue Reading
