By Rajiv Theodore New Delhi, Dec 22, 2019: Long before Christianity reached many parts of Europe, it came to Kerala along the thriving spice trade routes crossing the Arabian Sea. Today, about 7 million people, a fifth of Kerala’s population, call themselves St. Thomas Christians after Jesus’ apostle, who manyContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, Dec 20, 2019: It may take 71 years to bridge the gender gap in South Asia, says World Economic Forum (WEF). The forum publishes the Global Gender Gap Index every year. The index for this year – the 14th edition — was published onContinue Reading
By Rajiv Theodore New Delhi, Dec 19, 2019: HIV-AIDS has been controlled to an encouraging degree because of a sustained but focused multi-pronged strategy, claims the head of the program to contain the dreaded disease in the country. ‘’It seems today, we are in the last lap of containing thisContinue Reading
By Rajiv Theodore New Delhi, Dec 14, 2019: If success is not final; failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts then. Ramachandra Pulavar did just that. The Sangeet Natak Akademi winner had been over the past four decades relentless in his pursuit to revive anContinue Reading
By Amit Kumar Bhopal, Dec 11, 2019: A judicial commission that probed the largest operation against Maoists in Bastar region of Chhattisgarh state says the 2012 Sarkeguda encounter was fake. The commission chaired by Justice V K Agarwal, a retired Judge of the Madhya Pradesh High Court, reported December 11Continue Reading
By Lissy Maruthanakuzhy Panaji, Dec. 5, 2019: Sister Rosita Louisa Rachel Gomes believes life is a gift from God to serve his children. So the Mumbai-based nun from the Franciscan Hospitaller Sisters of the Immaculate Conception is on her feet at the age of 88, reaching out to those onContinue Reading
By Joe Higgins Everyone was joyful at Mithra, St Joseph’s Gregory Terrace Year 10 student Henry Joseph said after returning from an immersion to India in October. Henry, an Australian teenager, spent 14 days in India as part of his Year 10 immersion. There, he discovered India’s friendly and spiritualContinue Reading
By Alfie Habershon Mumbai: Nov 14, 2019: India ranked 82nd among 128 countries for generosity over the last 10 years, according to the tenth World Giving Index (WGI). Up to a third of Indians helped a stranger, one in four donated money, and one in five gave their time volunteering,Continue Reading
By Sujata Jena Manila, November 13, 2019: Religious nuns are not just narrowed down to the field of teaching in schools or being a nurse in hospitals, but selflessly dedicate themselves to fight for the rights and dignities of the vulnerable communities of society. Sister Sophia M. Arockia Mary isContinue Reading
Singapore, Nov 2 2019: Eighty-one-year-old Sister Gerard Fernandez, who for four decades has counseled prisoners in the country’s death row, has been included in the yearly list of BBC’s most influential women from all over the globe, joining a varied group that includes US Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Swedish climate changeContinue Reading