Rita Joseph Thiruvananthapuram, May 8, 2019: Sister Roselin Chirayil left the Daughters of Mary to start a new order solely dedicated to caring for women with mental illnesses who live in poverty. Her Sisters of Mercy congregation works with women who often hit and bite her and her sisters. ChirayilContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Ranchi, May 8, 2019: A court in Jharkhand state’s Khunti district has found a Jesuit priest and five others guilty in a gang rape case. Judge Rajesh Kumar of the additional district court in Khunti on May 7 convicted Father Alphonse Aind under various sections ofContinue Reading
SKopje, May 8, 2019: Pope Francis went to the tiny Balkan nation of North Macedonia to pay tribute to a tiny saint who accomplished big things: St. Teresa of Kolkata. Mother Teresa was born Agnes Ganxhe Bojaxhiu to Albanian parents in Skopje Aug. 26, 1910, so after paying the obligatoryContinue Reading
Colombo, May 8, 2019: Sri Lanka’s security authorities have either killed or arrested all those responsible for the Easter suicide bombings that left 257 people dead, according to the police chief. Chandana Wickramaratne said in an audio statement on Tuesday that police had accounted for every individual involved in theContinue Reading
New Delhi, May 8, 2019: The ‘Free Church’ on Sansad Marg in New Delhi has written a letter to the Deputy Commissioner of Police on May 7 over a ‘perceived threat’ from illegal occupants inside the church and sought assurance of security from the police. The church alleged that theContinue Reading
Kohima, May 7, 2019: A choir comprising different Naga tribes and Churches would represent India at the Asia Baptist youth conference in the Philippines The Cantamus choir would represent Nagaland Baptist Church Council (NBCC) at the May 21 -24 conference in Baguio city of the Philippines. In this connection, CantamusContinue Reading
New Delhi, May 7, 2019: Road accidents are the leading cause of death among people in the 5-29 age-group worldwide with more than 1.35 million lives lost each year and 50 million sustaining injuries, according to a World Health Organisation (WHO) report released during the on-going global road safety week.Continue Reading
Muqadas Ashraf was just 16 when her parents married her off to a Chinese man who had come to Pakistan looking for a bride. Less than five months later, Ms. Ashraf is back in her home country, pregnant and seeking a divorce from a husband she says was abusive. SheContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, May 7, 2019: India is facing “manifold crisis in higher education,” says People’s Commission on Shrinking Democratic Space in India, an NGO. The commission released the Report titled “Indian Campuses Under Seige” of the People’s Tribunal on Attacks on Educational Institutions in India inContinue Reading
By Purushottam Nayak Raikia, May 7, 2019: Hundreds of Christians and Hindus attended a thanksgiving Mass for two sisters who became full-fledged Catholic nuns after suffering religious persecution as teenagers in Odisha’s Kandhamal district. While Manjuta Pradhan professed final vows as a member of the Franciscan Sisters of St. JosephContinue Reading
