By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, September 2, 2019: More than 100 Christians protested against the growing attacks on churches nationwide in New Delhi. “Christians are persecuted in India. We are fighting for our fundamental Rights—right to worship as citizens of this country. Thus we are ambled here to protestContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Patna, September 2, 2019: The Archdiocese of Patna, Bihar, on September 1 inaugurated Inter-Religious Dialogue Institute Rajgir (IRDIR) to foster peace, harmony and solidarity among different religions in northern India. “It is our duty to spread good will and religious unity. This [IRDIR] is dedicated forContinue Reading
By Augustine Singh Kanjamendi, September 2, 2019: More than 150 leaders of Kandhamal and other parts of Odisha attended the memorial day of the persons martyred during 2007 and 2008 anti-Christian Kandhamal violence. Men and women from all denominations and other communities gathered at Catholic Church, Kanjamendi, on August 31Continue Reading
Guwahati, September 2, 2019: A 73-year-old doctor was thrashed to death for allegedly delaying to treat a worker at a tea estate hospital in Assam’s Jorhat. The management has been locked down the tea estate in Jorhat, some 300 km from Guwahati, Assam’s commercial capital, since the incident on AugustContinue Reading
Darwin, September 2, 2019: Hundreds of people rallied across Australia on September 1 to protest the possible deportation of a Tamil family. Coalition MPs are at odds over whether a Tamil family should be sent to Sri Lanka. The parents arrived by boat and their daughters were born in Australia.Continue Reading
Bhopal, September 1, 2019: Social activist Medha Patkar’s health has started deteriorating a week into her indefinite hunger strike to demand swift rehabilitation of thousands affected by floods in areas surrounding the Sardar Sarovar Dam. She launched the agitation — called the “Narmada Chunauti Satyagraha” — at Chhota Barda inContinue Reading
Kasganj, Sept. 1, 2019: A 41-year-old man has committed suicide in this Uttar Pradesh district and his family said that they had not eaten food since the past five days. The body of Pooran Singh was found hanging from a tree in a forest here on Saturday morning. Police suspectContinue Reading
Bengaluru, Sept. 1, 2019: Investigation is underway into the alleged sale of ‘defence’ land by the Church of South India (CSI) for the Bengaluru metro project and collecting Rs 60 crore compensation,” a police official said on Sunday. “We are inquiring into the Defence Ministry’s complaint that the CSI hadContinue Reading
Guwahati, September 1, 2019: More than 1.9 million people in Assam were left facing an uncertain future as the final National Register of Citizens (NRC) was released, 14 years after a decision on it was first taken and four years after the exercise to compile it began in full swingContinue Reading
By Felix Anthony Guwahati, September 1, 2019: The annual meeting of the Regional Pastoral Conference of North East India concluded September 1 with a resolution to orient the youth to work for better Church and Society The three-day event at Don Bosco Institute, Kharguli, Guwahati, saw the participation of allContinue Reading
