Matters India reporter Darjeeling, July 10, 2019: Salesian College Sonada and its Siliguri campus has launched for the first time Skill Oriented diploma and degree courses starting with this academic session in mid-July. Admissions are going on for Bachelor of Vocation Courses in Retail Management, at Sonada, and Travel andContinue Reading
New Delhi, July 10, 2019: National Confederation of Human Rights Organizations (NCHRO) organised a press conference on 7th July at the Press Club in New Delhi with Swetha Bhat, wife of Sanjiv Bhat and Shantanu Bhatt, son of Sanjiv Bhat as chief guests. Speaking to the press, Swetha Bhat, said,Continue Reading
Matters India reporter Yangon, July 9, 2019: Heeding to the call of Pope Francis who urged world leaders and people to pay homage to mother earth by protecting nature and forests Cardinal Charles Bo, archbishop of Yangon, joined social workers and youth to plant trees. The Church sponsored campaign underContinue Reading
By : Matters India Reporter Idukki, July 09: Indian Catholic priest Fr Dominic Valanmanal, who preached that an increased incidence of autism and hyperactivity in children is due to their parents’ lifestyle has apologised for his remarks. “I have a deep affection towards autistic children. I tell their parents thatContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, July 9, 2019: A Christian group that uses legal advocacy to protect persecuted Churches plans to organize special programs on August 22, the UN day to commemorate victims of religion-based violence. The Indian unit of the Alliance Defending Freedom has invited all Churches inContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Patna, July 9, 2019: A talk on the ““Welfare of the Marginalized and the Oppressed” organized by a Jesuit college in Patna heard passionate pleas to fight for the rights of the LGBTQ community. Reshma Prasad, an activist of the LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, transsexual,Continue Reading
By Mary Brazell Kenthurst, July 9, 2019: While serving as a young priest in Tamil Nadu, southern India, Father Vincent Savarimuthu was almost run out of his parish. “I was sent to the parish of Kamuthi, where the demography was lower caste. This parish was so peculiar, as there wereContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Sonipat, July 8, 2019: An eleventh grader in Haryana’s Sonipat stabbed his teacher several times after he was asked to show his holiday homework. The incident happened on July 8 when Mukesh Kumari, an English teacher at Shri Ram Krishna School of Bhigan village, was askingContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, July 8, 2019: The Supreme Court on July 8 rejected a plea seeking permission for Muslim women to enter mosques. Dismissing the plea from the Akhila Bharatha Hindu Mahasabha (All India Hindu grand council), a bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi said: “LetContinue Reading
Dimapur, July 8, 2019: Some former Don Bosco members and trainees have formed a group named the Salesians in the Secular World (SSW) for Nagaland. The members of the Catholic institution met on July 6 for the first time at the Aida conference Hall in Dimapur to officially form. “ItContinue Reading
