WhatsApp, on July 10, announced the launch of a new feature globally that will highlight when a message has been forwarded versus composed by the sender. The move follows the ongoing debate in various parts of the world, including India, on tackling spread of fake information on the platform ownedContinue Reading
Chhotebhai What the Dickens? This is not the tale of two cities, but a study in contrast of two of the seven sisters of the North East (NE); specifically Arunachal Pradesh (AP) and Manipur, where I spent a few days recently. My wife, Meera, and I, had been invited byContinue Reading
By Sr. Annie Jesus As the phone rang at 8.00 p.m, in the office of Jeevan Jharna Vikas Sansthan (JJVS), an NGO that works for social development in Jashpur, Chhattisgarh, on June 18, 2018, I knew that, yet another ‘missing’ daughter of the land had fallen in the clutches ofContinue Reading
Mumbai : Police in Jharkhand arrested 16 missionaries on June 8, on charges of converting tribal Adivasi by force to Christianity, the Press Trust of India reported. Speaking to AsiaNews, Sajan K George, president of the Global Council of Indian Christians (GCIC), said that “In Jharkhand, extreme right-wing groups systematically persecute members ofContinue Reading
A rape case against a priest belonging to the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church has been filed in Kayamkulam in Alappuzha district of Kerala. The complainant, a married woman of two children, alleges that the priest in question, Binu George who was in the Mavelikara diocese of the church at theContinue Reading
Catholic bishops in the Philippines, concerned about an increase in violence and police reaction to crime, announced a day of prayer and penance on July 16 and three days of fasting, prayer and penance on July 17-19. The bishops said they wanted to “invoke God’s mercy and justice on thoseContinue Reading
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By Matters India Reporter Jashpur: A 15-year old tribal girl, who was trafficked, was rescued by Jeevan Jharna Vikas Sansthan (JJVS), an NGO of the Sisters of Franciscan Missionaries of Mary (FMM) based in Jashpur, Chhattisgarh last night (July 9) after a great ordeal. The girl who supposed to getContinue Reading
By Matter India Reporter Mumbai: The Indian youth groups of Focolare Movement have pledged to do their best to reduce hunger in the country and elsewhere. Focolare Movement is a worldwide group, founded in Italy in 1943 by the charismatic lay Catholic woman, Chiara Lubich. The Focolare Movement aims atContinue Reading
San Sebastian, Spain: Fr. Juan Pablo Aroztegi became the youngest priest in the diocese of San Sebastian, Spain, when he was ordained last weekend by Bishop José Ignacio Munilla at Good Shepherd Cathedral. According to reports , Aroztegi, began to discern his vocation after an agnostic friend asked him why heContinue Reading
