By Virginia Saldanha Mumbai, Dec 7, 2019: After the Nirbhaya gang rape and murder, in 2012, the Justice Verma Commission, through an extensive consultative process put forward a number of recommendations to tighten the rape laws, make the investigation process more woman sensitive, and put safety measures in place byContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, Nov. 6, 2019: People and groups have reacted differently to the encounter killing of four accused of rape-murder in Telangana. Police officials in the southern Indian state said their men shot dead the four around 3:30 am on December 6 under a bridge onContinue Reading
New Delhi, Dec. 6, 2019: P N Lini, a nurse who died of Nipah virus attack while treating a patient of the deadly disease in 2018 in Kerala, was posthumously awarded the highest national award for nurses. The National Florence Nightingale awards were instituted in 1973 by the federal governmentContinue Reading
By Dr. Valson Thampu As compared to those who are crying foul against Sister Lucy Kalappura’s Lucy’s book, Karthaavinte Naamathil (In the Name of the Lord), I have a disqualification. I have read it. I managed to get hold of the pdf version, pre-publication. In a context where everybody knowsContinue Reading
Vatican City, Dec 5, 2019: Members of a Vatican special committee met with the Secretary General of the United Nations on December 4 to deliver a petition on human fraternity co-authored by Pope Francis and the Sunni Islamic Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, Ahmed Al-Tayeb. The committee was formed in August,Continue Reading
Abu Dhabi, Dec. 6, 2019: The opening of a new Church of South India (CSI) Parish Abu Dhabi was officially announced at St. Andrew’s church in the capital on Friday evening, marked by a Blessing Foundation Stone ceremony. The new church will be built at a new worship centre inContinue Reading
Kochi, Dec 6 2019: Cardinal George Alencherry was on Dec 6 elected the president of Kerala Catholic Bishops’ Council (KCBC), an association of the Catholic bishops of all three rites in the state. The head of Syro Malabar Catholic Church succeeds Archbishop Maria Calist Soosa Pakiam of Trivandrum Latin archdiocese.Continue Reading
Thiruvanathapuram, Dec 6 2019: A Catholic priest in Kerala was booked on December 4 for allegedly raping a woman in Kozhikode in June 2017, police said. The accused, Fr Manoj alias Jacob Plakoottathil, belongs to the Diocese of Thamarassery. After the incident, the victim had initially lodged a complaint withContinue Reading
Bengaluru, Dec 6 2019: The severed body of 28-year-old nun was found on a railway tracks in Hubli twon of Karnataka. The shocking incident occurred around 3:30 am on December 4. Sister Mary Sendra Vianney of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary Convent is the second child in theContinue Reading
Ohio, Dec 5 2019: A former Pentecostal minister and married father of five has been approved for ordination by the Vatican. Deacon Drake McCalister will become the first married priest to be ordained in Steubenville Diocese, in Ohio in USA. He will be ordained on December 19. McCalister served asContinue Reading
