By Matters India Reporter Pune: The Association of Catholic Historians of India (ACHI) has chosen to deliberate on the contribution of missionaries for nation building for its forthcoming annual conference in Bangalore, next June. “The right-wing Hindu organizations such as RSS (Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh) and the pro-Hindu BJP (Bharatiya JanataContinue Reading
Dr Astrid Lobo Gajiwala The Indian Church is bleeding, and my “holy anger” is now laced with deep sorrow. Did it have to come to this? Women religious, priests and people from the pews, protesting publicly against the silence of the Indian bishops; leaders of the Missionaries of Jesus, attackingContinue Reading
There has been little effort at rebuilding livesContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Hyderabad: Poets, writers, environmentalists, social activists, academicians and others along with school children on September 28 marked the 110th anniversary of the flooding of Hyderabad. The day was celebrated under the iconic tamarind tree that saved 150 people who clung on to its branches to escapeContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Bettiah: Tension has gripped Bettiah, a town in Bihar’s West Champaran district, as radical groups protested the death of a student of a Catholic school in an accident. The administration has sealed the school managed by the diocese of Bettiah and brought the situation under control.Continue Reading
Barring women aged 10 to 50 is unconstitutional.Continue Reading
The biggest worries plaguing the youth of India are unemployment and lack of education although most of them believed that their political leaders care about their needs, a new study has said. About 55 percent youth in the country also believed that they are knowledgeable about politics and government, andContinue Reading
By Irudaya Jothi SJ Kolkata: National Nutrition Mission has decided to declare September as the “Poushan Maah” in West Bengal–it is Bhadra and Ashwin (mid-August to mid-October) the worst months for hunger as it is the same story in many parts of rural India. Media groups have regularly reported ‘starvationContinue Reading
By Mattes India Reporter New Delhi: There is an urgent need to side with the Dalits in India. This was stressed during a consultation jointly organized by Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI) Office for Dalits and Backward Classes and Christian Institute for the study of Religion (CISRS) on theContinue Reading
By John Dayal We as a community must demand that Franco Mulakkal, the former bishop of the Jalandhar Catholic diocese, in the northwestern Punjab state, [suspended, or how do we describe his present canonical position], be tried in a fast track court on the charges of multiple rapes of aContinue Reading
