C.M. Paul Kolkata, Jan. 14, 2019: Marking 20th year of the gruesome murder of an Australian missionary and his two young sons in Odisha’s sleepy outback wilderness of Manoharpur in Keonjhar district, Skypass Entertainment will release its first film on February 1 in the US. The 112-minute film will beContinue Reading
Islamabad: A Pakistani university is rebranding Valentine’s Day as “Sister’s Day”, and debating marking the holiday widely seen as a Western import by handing out headscarves and shawls to its female students. The University of Agriculture in Faisalabad (UAF), in central Punjab province, said the change was taken to promoteContinue Reading
Hyderabad,Jan. 14, 2019: A massive land scam allegedly committed by Church of South India Trust Association (CSIT) has been unearthed by the Andhra Pradesh CID and Serious Fraud Investigation Office’s Hyderabad unit. The investigation has revealed that the arrested accused, Archbishop Govada Dyvasirvadam and his associates have sold away landContinue Reading
Kozhikode, Jan 14, 2019: Swami Agnivesh, eminent social activist and Arya Samaj leader, deplored the atrocities on Christians like that witnessed in Kandhamal jungles of Odisha ‘shameful for the nation’ on January 12 while releasing at Kozhikode a documentary exposing Sangh Parivar’s Kandhamal fraud and travesty of Justice. “As anContinue Reading
Kandhamal, Jan. 14, 2019: About 3,000 survivors of the anti-Christian massacres in Orissa in 2008 still claim legitimate compensation in proceedings underway in front of the Supreme Court. The meeting held on Jan. 12 was attended by Archbishop John Barwa, of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar, and lawyer Colin Gonsalves, Thomas Minze, President ofContinue Reading
Mumbai, Jan 14, 2019: In a “dynamic and fast-changing” society, the Church in India must embrace “flexibility” in pastoral ministry, according to one bishop in the country. “Evangelization demands creativity and innovation. God is ever new and ancient,” said Bishop Thomas Dabre of Poona at the beginning of this week’sContinue Reading
By Devasagayaraj M. Zackarias New Delhi, Jan 12, 2019: The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI) Office for SC/BC is deeply concerned about the dichotomy in rendering social justice in India. Both the houses of the Parliament passed the bill giving 10% reservation in education and employment for the EconomicallyContinue Reading
By Stephen Alathara Chennai, Jan 12, 2019: Archbishop Filipe Neri Ferrão of Goa and Daman was elected as the new President of the Conference of Catholic Bishops’ of India (CCBI) by the 31st Plenary Assembly of the National Episcopal Conference of India, at Joe Animation Centre, Mahabalipurm, Chennai, Tamil Naud.Continue Reading
By : Matters India Reporter Bhopal, Jan 11, 2019: Two Catholic priests have been injured one of them critically when the car in which they were travelling crashed on a tree in Central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh on January 11. The injured have been admitted to a private hospitalContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, Jan. 11, 2019: Retired Jesuit Bishop Charles Soreng of Hazaribag, a former secretary general of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI), died on January 11 at Ranchi, capital of Jharkhand state. He was 84. He died at 8.40 am in Seva Nilaya Health CentreContinue Reading
