Vatican, Jan 10, 2020: Brother Peter Tabichi, a Kenyan science teacher who won the 2019 world’s best teacher prize, has spoken of his awe for Pope Francis’ humility after the two met in the Vatican. Brother Peter, a member of the Franciscan religious order, was praised for his achievements inContinue Reading
New Delhi, Jan. 10, 2020: Every night, 75-year-old Noornissa braves the freezing cold to help block one of the main roads into the capital of India, in a protest that is at the forefront of a rising challenge to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. For nearly four weeks, Noornissa and moreContinue Reading
Kochi, Jan 10, 2020: Father Varkey Kattarath, the founder of Vincentian Congregation, will be declared a Servant of God soon, marking the commencement of the cause for his canonization. The priest was born on October 31, 1851, and died on October 24, 1931. His mortal remains were interred at StContinue Reading
California, Jan 10, 2020: America’s largest interdenominational Christian theology school is being sued. Two former students are taking legal action against the Fuller Theological Seminary after been expelled for being in same-sex marriages. Nathan Brittsan, an American Baptist Churches USA minister, and Joanna Maxon, a former Fuller student claim theContinue Reading
Nirmala CarvalhoJan Mumbai, Jan. 10, 2020: India’s leading cardinal has called the country’s controversial Citizen Amendment Act “a cause of great anxiety for all citizens.” Cardinal Oswald Gracias, the Archbishop of Bombay and president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI), made his comments on Jan. 8 at aContinue Reading
Andreas Thonhauser Most Christians in India will remember the year 2019 as challenging, to say the least. Religious minorities in general and Christians specifically suffered from an increasing number of attacks. Hindu nationalism, claiming to purge India of everything non-Hindu, was a decisive issue in the general election. Soon after,Continue Reading
By Palak Agrawal Pune, Jan 10, 2020: Nikhil Prasad Baji has put a stamp on the lines, “Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.” The 31-year-old, who was diagnosed with cerebral palsy from birth, fought against the odds to crack theContinue Reading
By Sudarshan Varadhan New Delhi, Jan 9, 2020: One woman reported a rape every 15 minutes on average in India in 2018, according to government data released on January 9, underlining its dismal reputation as one of the worst places in the world to be female. The highly publicized gangContinue Reading
Bhubaneswar, Jan 9, 2020: Medical negligence in 2003 cost Tapaswini Das her eyesight, but that could not prevent the 23-year-old girl from cracking the Odisha civil services exam. Das, who lost her eyesight in the second grade in Bhubaneswar’s DAV School, secured 161st rank in the 2018 examination when theContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, Jan 9, 2020: The Indian Christian Women Movement (ICWM) on January 9 urged the federal government to roll back the “unwanted exercise” of Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and National Register of Citizens NRC and focus on “real issues affecting” the country. “In the stubbornContinue Reading
