By Shane Alliew Running at 130 minutes, Article 15, is another hard-hitting film from director Anubhav Sinha (Mulk, 2018), this time challenging the ethos of casteism which is embedded in the fabric of the Indian society, running far deep and wide than what one can ever imagine. Ayan Ranjan (AyushmannContinue Reading
By Sujata Jena New York, July 23, 2019: Claretian Father Lord Winner is engaged in spreading the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) among Catholic religious around the world. Pope Francis on March 8 affirmed the importance of SDGs approved by more than 190 nations in 2015. The Indian priestContinue Reading
By Matters of India Reporter New Delhi, July 23, 2019: The Supreme Court of India on July 23 granted bail to yet another of seven people, who have been languishing in jail for more than ten years in connection with the murder of a Hindu religious leader in Odisha, easternContinue Reading
By Nirmala Carvalho Mumbai, July 23, 2019: Cardinal Oswald Gracias, president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI), has called on young Catholics to dream to become missionaries to transform the world and relationships. “Dream dreams of becoming true disciples of the mission at work, at home and inContinue Reading
By Synter Pereira Panaji, July 23, 2019: For more than 30 years, students of Rachol Seminary in Goa go to a village for a live-in program of at least three days as part of their course on Theology of Missions, accompanied by the professor of the subject. Initially, they usedContinue Reading
By Kiran Manral New Delhi, July 23, 2019: If you thought that the primary effect of the pollution your children are exposed to only causes them to fall ill, with respiratory ailments, you couldn’t be further from the truth. Apart from respiratory ailments, autoimmune diseases, affecting moods, and more, perhapsContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kochi, July 23, 2019: Kerala’s Health Minister K K Shailja on July 23 declared Ernakulam district Nipah-free as a youth fully recovered from the disease and left the hospital. “It is a successful culmination of the joint operation of government and private sector,” the minister toldContinue Reading
By Purushottam Nayak Raikia, July 23, 2019: Kandhamal, the land of martyrs, continues to inspire pilgrims, religious, faithful, theologians, young and old. “My faith is strengthened and enriched after spending four meaningful days with the victims of Kandhamal,” said Divine Word Hanson D’Souza from Mangalore, who studies theology at KristoContinue Reading
Vatican City, July 22, 2019: One of Pope Francis’s top aides delivered a personal letter from the pontiff to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, among other things expressing Francis’s “deep concern” for the humanitarian situation in Idlib, a rebel-controlled area in northwestern Syria that’s been the target of Russian-backed airstrikes sinceContinue Reading
July 22, 2019: Pope Francis has banned a former US bishop accused of sexual harassment and of misusing church money from publicly performing the liturgy, the Vatican News website has reported. The measure was among a series of sanctions the pope had issued against Michael Bransfield, the website reported, citingContinue Reading
