Rapid City, March 31, 2019: A former Catholic priest from India has been sentenced to six years in prison for sexually abusing a teenage girl in the US. John Praveen Itukulapati, a former Holy Spirit priest from Telangana, pleaded guilty in February to sexually touching a 13-year-old girl in theContinue Reading
Vatican, Mar 30, 2019: Pope Francis issued sweeping new sex abuse legislation on March 29 for Vatican personnel and diplomats that requires the immediate reporting of abuse allegations to Vatican prosecutors. For the first time, the law provides an explicit Vatican definition for “vulnerable people,” who are entitled to theContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Jalandhar, March 29, 2019: Officers of the Enforcement Directorate on March 29 arrested a prominent priest of Jalandhar diocese and three others for keeping unaccounted money, an Indian news agency tweeted. Asian News International (ANI) identified the priest as Father Antony Madassery, director of Navjeevan (newContinue Reading
By Philip Mathew Puducherry, March 29, 2019: Sister Irudayam Augusta watches closely as some 40 women move their hands to create exquisite embroidery on clothes in a historic 1774 building. Augusta, a member of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Cluny, and two of her sister colleagues manage the ClunyContinue Reading
Beijing , Mar. 29, 2019: A southern Chinese city is offering cash rewards for information about “illegal religious groups” as the ruling Communist Party continues to tighten its grip over faith communities. A notice posted on the official website of the Guangzhou Department of Ethnic and Religious Affairs said upContinue Reading
Shimla, Mar. 29, 2019: When Shyam Saran Negi exercised his franchise in Himachal Pradesh’s Kinnaur district in 1951, he created history by becoming Independent India’s first voter. More than 60 years on, he is a VIP of sorts as there is full media glare whenever he goes out to vote.Continue Reading
By Poonam Muttreja Gangtok, March 29, 2019: Everyone knows that Sikkim is a small extraordinarily picturesque mountainous state tucked away in the Himalayas in the northeast of India. That indeed it is. Even today, there are only around 650,000 people living in the state. However, much less known about SikkimContinue Reading
By: Troy Ribeiro Star Cast: Sharman Joshi, Stephen Baldwin, Shari Rigby, Manoj Mishra, Prakash Belawadi, Aditi Chengappa Director Aneesh Daniel’s The Least of These is based on a true story that documents the tragic death of an Australian Christian missionary and his sons in Odisha. Narrated from the local journalist,Continue Reading
By M I Khan Patna, March 29, 2019: Kanhaiya Kumar, former president of the Jawaharlal Nehru University students union, has created history collecting 4 million rupees in crowdfunding in just 40 hours for election expenses. Kumar of the Communist Party of India is the joint candidate of the Left parties’Continue Reading
March 28,2019: Religion is often viewed as a force that sows divisions between people. But the world’s most prominent religious leaders have come together to present a different vision of how faith can work in the world. In a rare move, major religious leaders ― from Pope Francis to theContinue Reading
