By Matters India Reporter Orlong Hada, Feb 21, 2020: The Indian Franciscan Major Superiors, 97 of them from all over India gathered together in the Orlong Hada hill area in Meghalaya in North Eastern India to spend four days (from Feb 17 to 20) of deep personal and collective reflectionContinue Reading
New Delhi, Feb 22, 2020: A road in Shaheen Bagh in the national capital was reopened on February 22, some 70 days blocked it was blocked amid protests against Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). Shaheen Bagh in south Delhi has been the epicenter of anti-CAA protests in Delhi since mid-December followingContinue Reading
By Christina Hermoso and Leslie Ann Aquino Manila, Feb 22, 2020: To reduce the risk of transmission of the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) has recommended the sprinkling of blessed ash on the crown of the head instead of marking with ash theContinue Reading
By I P Sarto Burdwan, Feb. 22, 2020: More than 100 lay leaders from Asansol diocese in West Bengal state on February 22 decided not to show any record if asked for data collection in connection with the National Register of Citizens (NRC). The lay leader along with 25 priestsContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Rome, February 22, 2019: An Indian lay martyr is among the two people Pope Francis has approved for sainthood. The Pope on February 21 authorized the Congregation for the Causes of Saints to promulgate decrees for eight other candidates in various stages in the canonization process.Continue Reading
New Delhi, Feb 21, 2020: Most protesters at Shaheen Bagh have told the interlocutors that the Supreme Court should first decide on their demand for repealing the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). Supreme Court lawyers Sanjay Hegde and Sadhna Ramachandran spoke to the women for the second day on February 20Continue Reading
Kolkata, Feb 21, 2020: A speaker told the women protesting the new citizenship regime at Kolkata’s Park Circus Maidan that she was “ashamed” that members of a community were having to endure such pain to demand the rights of a citizen. Theatre director-actor Rasika Agashe, who is married to filmContinue Reading
By Nirmala Carvalho Mumbai, Feb 21, 2020: The Catholic Church in India has mourned the death of Monsignor Hilary Rodrigues, a pioneer of Interreligious dialogue in India and close friend of Saint Teresa of Kolkata. He was 93. The monsignor died on February 20 from old age ailments at theContinue Reading
By Ram Puniyani Mumbai, Feb 21, 2020: This January, it is thirty years since the Kashmiri Pundits’ exodus from the Kashmir valley took place. They had suffered grave injustices, violence and humiliation prior to the migration away from the place of their social and cultural roots in Kashmir Valley. TheContinue Reading
Khurda, Feb 21, 2020: On the occasion of Maha Shivratri, famous miniature artist L Eswar Rao crafted a miniature model of ‘Shiva Linga’ on a pencil nib and on the stone inside a small bottle. Rao is a native of Jatni village in Khurda district, some 20 km northwest ofContinue Reading
