By Matters India Reporter Manila, April 11, 2019: Tools of communications may change, but the “true core of the message” remains the same, says Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, Archbishop of Manila,. The head of the Philippines Church was speaking at a function on April 11 to celebrate the 50th anniversaryContinue Reading
Kochi, April 11, 2019: A news and entertainment television channel led by a Catholic lay preacher is slated to go on air on April 28 in Kerala. Santhosh Karumathra, owner of Shekinah, told The Hindu on April 9 that it would take three months before the channel’s full operations couldContinue Reading
Chandigarh, April 10, 2019: Punjab Governor V P Singh Badnore on April 10 declined an invite from the British High Commission to attend the birthday celebrations of Queen Elizabeth-II in Chandigarh. The reason, the event fell on the eve of the 100th anniversary of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre by theContinue Reading
By Shajid Khan Guwahati, April 10, 2019: A mob has thrashed a man for allegedly selling cooked beef at his eatery in Assam, northeastern India. The attackers also stopped Shaukat Ali, who is in his 70s, from going for namaz (Muslim prayers) and forced him to consume pork, a foodContinue Reading
By Debapriya Sen Vaite New Delhi, April 10, 2019: As we cast our votes to elect representatives for the 17th Lok Sabha, it is regrettable that, except for a few political parties, the issue of women’s representation in politics has not been accorded the due importance that it deserves. FromContinue Reading
Kundapur, April 10, 2019: Its election season in Karnataka and while parties are going all out to ensure that constituents actually come out on the day of polling to exercise their voting right, one activist has come up with a unique idea to urge people to vote. Ganesh Kumar, sonContinue Reading
New Delhi, April 10, 2019: India’s population grew at 1.2 percent a year between 2010 and 2019, marginally higher than the global average of 1.1 percent a year in this period. However, India’s growth was more than double of China’s 0.5 percent a year, according to the United Nations PopulationContinue Reading
Kochi, April 10, 2019: The Kerala high court on April 9 dismissed revision petitions filed by a priest and a nun seeking discharge in the murder of Sister Abhaya and directed them to stand trial in the case. Sister Abhaya was found dead in the well of the Pious XContinue Reading
United Nations, April 10, 2019: The United Nations has announced that it has started going partially paperless by stopping printing of press releases. “Starting today, the News and Media Division of the Department of Global Communications (DGC) will no longer print hard copies of press releases,” UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’sContinue Reading
April 9, 2019: The Arunachal Pradesh Catholic Association (APCA) has withdrawn the “prayer to vote”, which it had issued to the Christians of the state to vote for former Chief Minister Nabam Tuki in the Lok Sabha elections. After being slapped with a show cause notice by the Election CommissionContinue Reading
