Binoy Job Dear Modi ji, Rahul ji, Pawar ji, Mamata di, Akhilesh ji, Babu Garu, Rao Garu, Naveen ji, Stalin ji, Thackeray ji, Gowda ji and all the leaders of parties contesting the 2019 general elections: In a few days’ time, India will choose its new government. This means oneContinue Reading
In Sri Lanka, the annual festival at St. Anthony’s Church in Katchatheevu island was attended by hundreds of Indian Catholic pilgrims from Tamil Nadu and nearby areas. The pilgrims on March 16 took bath and attended Mass conducted in both Tamil and Sinhala languages. The Tamil Mass was led byContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, March 16, 2019: The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India has expressed anguish and sadness at the massacre of Muslims in New Zealand. At least 49 people were killed and 20 seriously injured on March 15 in a hate-filled terror attack targeting two mosques inContinue Reading
By Don Bosco Onyalla Nairobi, March 16, 2019: A Catholic priest and a nun along with four Kenyans working with Catholic Relief Services were among the 157 victims of the recent Ethiopian Airlines crash. The Nairobi-bound plane, Boeing 737, crashed on March 10 near Ethiopia’s town of Bishoftu some sixContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, March 16, 2019: As India gets ready for the world’s biggest exercise in democracy, the head of the Catholic Church in the country has called upon people to elect leaders who listen to people, understand their needs and respond effectively. “I urge every community toContinue Reading
By Frazer Mascarenhas S J | Mumbai, March 15, 2019: With elections around the corner, who would think of educators and their influence? At an event last week, Father Arturo Sosa SJ — the Superior General of the worldwide Jesuit organisation and a political scientist himself — met a fewContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Chiang Mai, March 15, 2019: The Christian Conference of Asia (CCA) has denounced the shooting in two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, that killed 49 people and wounded 20 others. “No matter what faith we adhere or ethnicity we belong to, everybody should be able toContinue Reading
By Fr Nigel Barrett Varanasi, March 15, 2019: Church communicators should become prophets in this age of fake news and denounce fearlessly all that is wrong in the country as well as in the church, says the editor of a leading Christian weekly in India. “In the thirst to beContinue Reading
ChristChurch, Mar 15: Forty people have been killed and more than 20 seriously wounded in shootings at two mosques in Christchurch. New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern described the incidents as a terrorist attack, and one of the country’s “darkest days”. Three men and one woman are in custody, policeContinue Reading
Mumbai, March 14, 2019: Two nurses on their way to hospital for night duty were killed on March 14 when an overbridge collapsed in Mumbai. At least five persons were killed and 33 others injured after a portion of the concrete slab of a key foot over bridge connecting ChhatrapatiContinue Reading
