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
Ramanathapuram, March 14, 2019: A list of 2,451 pilgrims has been finalized for the two-day annual St Antony’s Church festival being held in Katchatheevu, an uninhabited island located between Rameswaram and Sri Lanka. Inspector General of Police (south zone) K.P. Shanmuga Rajeswaran inspected the arrangements made at Rameswaram fishing jettyContinue Reading
Thiruvananthapuram, Mar. 12, 2019: Thirteen-year-old Muhammed Asim’s determination has paid off. Born without hands, Kerala’s Asim had approached everyone he could for the last two years to help him continue his education. Asim got a boost from the Prime Minister’s office on March 13, four days after he started aContinue Reading
Mumbai, Mar. 14, 2019: A foot overbridge leading into the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus collapsed on Thursday, killing five people and injuring several. The FOB, which is taken by hundreds of commuters everyday, was reported to have collapsed on Thursday evening. Police officials as well as rescue workers rushed toContinue Reading
Ahmedabad, March 14, 2019: The Gujarat High Court has issued notice to the state government on a petition by a man seeking mercy killing of his 23-year-old daughter suffering from cerebral palsy, a set of neurological disorders that affect muscle movement and coordination. Justice A Y Kogje issued the noticeContinue Reading
By The Kolkata Telegraph Editorial Board Kolkata, March 14, 2019: Impressive gestures are right up the prime minister’s street. But when he nobly invited people’s inputs for the Bharatiya Janata Party’s election manifesto, he may not have been expecting quite as forthright and detailed a missive as the one presentedContinue Reading
