Colombo, Sept 2, 2019: Police say the remains of a suicide bomber who attacked a church in eastern Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday have been exhumed after a court order that they be buried elsewhere following public protests. Police spokesman Ruwan Gunasekara says the remains were removed from Kalliyankadu cemeteryContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, September 2, 2019: The Indian Catholic Press Association has mourned the death of a Divine World missionary who brought the Church’s communication of ministry to interior tribal villages of Odisha, eastern India. Hundreds of people attended the funeral services of Father Mathew Poovanpuzha onContinue Reading
Nairobi, September 2, 2019: Kenyan authorities have suspended visits to the gorges of the famous Hell’s Gate National Park in the Rift Valley after a flash flood killed six tourists and their driver. Paul Udoto, spokesman for the Kenya Wildlife Service, said those who died in the September evening tragedyContinue Reading
Mirzapur, September 2, 2019: The government of Uttar Pradesh has filed a case against journalist who shot a video of students of a school eating rotis with salt as their mid-day meal. In its complaint, the Block Education Office of eastern Uttar Pradesh’s Mirzapur district has accused the journalist, PawanContinue Reading
By Lissy Maruthanakuzhy Panaji, September 2, 2019: More than 450 parishioners of Panaji’s Mary Immaculate Church on September 1 went on a cruise trip to Bom Jesus Basilica in Old Goa to keep alive a traditional thanksgiving pilgrimage. “This is the 165th year of the pilgrimage. It is handed downContinue Reading
Berlin, Sept. 2, 2019: The top UN refugee official has urged India to ensure that no one is left stateless by the exclusion of nearly 2 million people from a citizenship list in Assam state. Filippo Grandi, the UN high commissioner for refugees, voiced his concern in a statement issuedContinue Reading
Remembering the Jesuit priest who invited me to the cityContinue Reading
Sept. 1, 2019: As Asia Bibi sits free at last in a secret location in Canada, the Pakistani Christian woman who spent years on death row after a false blasphemy charge thinks of those left behind still facing the same ordeal. Nearly four months after the 54-year-old finally left PakistanContinue Reading
New Delhi, Sept. 2, 2019: Jawaharlal Nehru University is in the process of reviewing the position of all its emeritus professors who are above the age of 75 years. At least five such professors, including renowned historian Romila Thapar and sociologist T.K. Oommen, have received letters from JNU’s registrar askingContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kolkata, September 2, 2019: The national Hindi convention of Small Christian Communities will be held at Kolkata October 25-27. The Archdiocese of Calcutta will host the event, which is expected to draw some 3,000 delegates from various parts of India. They will home stay at parishContinue Reading
