Shillong, Dec. 13, 2018: A Meghalaya High Court judge stirred controversy after he wrote a judgement that said India should have been declared a “Hindu country.” Since partition of the subcontinent, during Independence, was done on the basis of religion, “Pakistan declared that it was an Islamic country… India shouldContinue Reading
# Chhotebhai Dec: 13, 2018: “Pappu Can’t Dance Saala” was a hit song from the 2008 Bollywood movie “Jaane Tu ya Jaane Naa”, a cute romantic comedy featuring the fresh faced Genelia D’Souza and the boy next door Imran Khan. It was also the title of another movie with theContinue Reading
Shady Lewis Botros says his recently published novel — “Ways of the Lord” — can be broadly viewed as an attempt to answer one question: What it’s like to be a Christian in Egypt? The answer, given in stories narrated by the book’s chief character, is complex and often disheartening.Continue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Vijayawada, Dec. 13, 2018: A former moderator of the Church of South India (CSI) has been reportedly arrested and jailed on December 11 by the Crime Investigation Department on alleged charges of corruption and illegal sale of Church properties. Bishop Govada Dyvashirvadam is the former bishopContinue Reading
By Nithya Sagayam Chennai, Dec. 13, 2018: There is a tendency to imagine that the people have come up with a choice of Congress to regain the lost democracy. Never. It is only a reaction of the people to the ways and means the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) took peopleContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Thiruvananthapuram, Dec. 13, 2018: Mystery surrounds the death of a priest of the Trivandrum Syro-Malankara archdiocese. The police suspect it to be suicide case, but the priest’s parishioner’s allege foul play, newsatindia.com, a local news portal reported on December 13. The body of Father Albin VargheseContinue Reading
KOCHI, Dec 12: Despite the KCBC (Kerala Catholic Bishops’ Council) vowing to set up Internal Complaints Committee (ICC) in all institutions run by the Church, it. nonetheless, expressed the impracticality of setting up ICC in nunneries and priestly congregations. “Convents are places where nuns live and therefore we cannot formContinue Reading
Rome, Dec. 12, 2018: Pope Francis, showing once again his willingness to turn over liturgical tables, is expected to approve a change in the translation of the Lord’s Prayer, the famous biblical petition recited by Christians billions of times a day. The Italian Episcopal Conference [CEI] has submitted the proposedContinue Reading
Shillong, Dec. 12, 2018: The Salesian province of St. John Paul II has mourned the death of Father Joseph Cilia, a missionary from Malta who served the people of northeastern India, especially the youth, for more tan six decades. Father Celia, a Salesian, died on December 10 at Shillong’s NazarethContinue Reading
By John Dayal New Delhi, Dec. 12, 2018: The worst is not over for India’s religious minorities, its Dalits and its farmers despite the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) failing to retain its governments in some of the most populous and vast heartland states of the Union in the legislative assemblyContinue Reading
