By Felix Anthony Miao, Feb. 22, 2019: The second edition of Namdapha Butterfly Meet got underway on February 21 at Miao in the Changlang district of Arunachal Pradesh, northeastern India. The Society for Education and Environmental Development (SEED) opened its second edition of Namdapha Butterfly Meet (NBM) with painting andContinue Reading
Vatican City, Feb. 22, 2019: A leading US cardinal has called for new independent ways of reporting bishops who cover up the abuse of children by priests or who may themselves be abusers. Cardinal Blase Cupich, Archbishop of Chicago, told senior church figures in Rome on February 22 morning thatContinue Reading
Bhubaneswar, Feb. 22, 2019: A newly converted Christian was beheaded in the eastern Indian state of Odisha allegedly by Maoists at the behest of Hindu radicals. The body and severed head of Anand Ram Gand were found on a road on February 11 at Raigarh Tehsil village in the NabarangapurContinue Reading
Pune, Feb 22, 2019: In yet another incident of assault on Kashmiris after the Pulwama terror attack, a 24-year-old journalist from Jammu and Kashmir was beaten up in Pune, Maharashtra. The local police, who earlier dubbed it as an incident of road rage, registered a case against the two suspectedContinue Reading
New York, Feb 21, 2019: The Indian government should prevent and prosecute mob violence by vigilante groups targeting minorities in the name of so-called cow protection, Human Rights Watch has said. A 104-page report, “Violent Cow Protection in India: Vigilante Groups Attack Minorities,” describes the use of “communal rhetoric” byContinue Reading
Dhaka, Feb 21, 2019: At least 70 people were killed when fire tore through crumbling apartment blocks in a historic part of Dhaka, setting off a chain of explosions and a wall of flames down nearby streets, the officials said on Feb 21. It started in one building where chemicalsContinue Reading
Vatican City, Feb. 20, 2019: Victims of sexual abuse by Catholic clergy demanded on Feb 20 to meet Pope Francis to press their call for the Church to apply a zero tolerance policy including the dismissal of bishops who covered up such offences. The 12 victims met with five VaticanContinue Reading
Vatican, Feb 21 2019: One of the Catholic Church’s most senior cardinals has admitted that he could have better handled sexual abuse allegations that were brought to him. Oswald Gracias, the Archbishop of Mumbai is one of four men organising a major Vatican conference on child abuse this week. InvestigationContinue Reading
London, Feb 20, 2019: Two prominent cardinals have called for an end to the “plague of the homosexual agenda”, urging bishops to end their complicity and silence over cases of sexual abuse. In an open letter on Feb 20, Cardinals Raymond Burke from the US and Walter Brandmüller from GermanyContinue Reading
By Dr. George Jacob. Kochi, Feb. 19, 2018: On September 28 2018, the Indian Supreme Court threw ‘tradition and custom’ to the wind by allowing women of all ages to worship at the Sabarimala temple in Kerala, where until then, only women between 10 and 50 years could worship, besidesContinue Reading
