By Matters India Reporter Bengaluru, August 27, 2019: A Bangalore-based NGO provided a food kit for ten days to 1,400 flood affected families in Kerala’s Wayanad district. The Project Vision under the banner of ‘Bangalore Cares for Kerala’ supplied the kits on August 26 and 27. Unprecedented floods have alsoContinue Reading
By Nirmala Carvalho Mumbai, August 25, 2019: Kandhamal is growing in faith, the people have no fear, and they can face any challenge with faith and trusting in God, says Archbishop John Barwa of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar. On August 25, Christians around India marked Kandhamal Day, commemorating the 11th anniversary of theContinue Reading
By Lissy Maruthanakuzhy Panaji, August 17, 2019: When Robin D’Souza and friends thought of beginning a cable TV channel in Goa to promote Gospel values, it seemed an impossible dream at first. “The impossible dream has become a reality now,” D’Souza, who oversees the day to day function of theContinue Reading
By Sujata Jena Manila, August 10, 2019: Dominga Abinoha, a 75-year-old illiterate woman, is one of the hundreds of thousands of poor in the Philippines. She is among the 3.1 million shelterless who have made Manila, the Philippines capital the world’s largest city of homeless people. Dominga’s parents were fromContinue Reading
By Sujata Jena, SS.CC. Manila, August 9, 2019: With 3.1 million people with no place to live, Manila is home to the world’s largest homeless population. Among them are 70,000 children. These homeless are seen in the streets of Metro Manila — around shanties, near bridges, on sidewalks, pavements, atContinue Reading
Raipur, August 7, 2019: Surguja district of the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh has recorded the world’s highest breastfeeding rate. The land of iridescent forests, dazzling waterfalls and sweeping tablelands, tucked away in the foothills of the mighty Vindhyas, has overtaken the central African country of Rwanda that has 87Continue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Bengaluru, July 31, 2019: Rinku (name changed) came to Bengaluru from Assam lured by the promise of a decent job. She ended up in a bar. “The condition of bar girls is worse than that of prostitutes,” says the woman who has managed to escape theContinue Reading
By Jan Stuyt, SJ Father Frans van der Lugt was killed in Homs five years ago. Since then, every day, Christians and Muslims have visited the garden of the Jesuit residence to pray at his tomb. Fr. Frans – in Arabic Abuna Francis – was a Jesuit priest originally fromContinue Reading
By Kiran Manral New Delhi, July 23, 2019: If you thought that the primary effect of the pollution your children are exposed to only causes them to fall ill, with respiratory ailments, you couldn’t be further from the truth. Apart from respiratory ailments, autoimmune diseases, affecting moods, and more, perhapsContinue Reading
By Meera Subramanian July 15, 2019: India’s water crisis offers a striking reminder of how climate change is rapidly morphing into a climate emergency. Piped water has run dry in Chennai, the southern state of Tamil Nadu’s capital, and 21 other Indian cities are also facing the specter of “DayContinue Reading
