By Peerzada Ummer New Delhi, May 30, 2022: Caritas India, the social action arm of the Catholic Church, this year launched a comprehensive program to help generate livelihood opportunities for people living with HIV. The agency primarily works in the slums of the national capital where cases are found inContinue Reading
By Tabeenah Anjum Jaipur, May 18, 2022: An author from a tribal community says writing about the marginalized is like walking a tight rope. “It is like a tug of war from the two sides and that is the challenge, we as writers are facing in the present times,” saysContinue Reading
By Sami Ahmad Patna, May 18, 2022: The forced hoisting of a saffron flag atop a mosque in Bihar during the recent Ram Navami procession was an attempt to provoke Muslims to retaliate with violence, says a fact-finding report by the state unit of People’s Union of Civil Liberties (PUCL).Continue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Pathanamthitta, May 18, 2022: A Muslim police officer’s act of kindness has brought joy to the families of two Hindu autorickshaw drivers in Pathanamthitta, Kerala. Assar Uman Ebin Umar Sahib, a Sub Inspector, decided to meet autorickshaw drivers in the southern Indian town to find outContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Junagadh, May 14, 2022: A Catholic priest has stepped in to care for an aged and ailing Catholic woman, who had spent four decades as a hermit among wild animals in western India. Sister Prasanna Devi, the only surviving Catholic ascetic of the Syro-Malabar Church, isContinue Reading
By Thomas Scaria Jaffna, May 2, 2022: Cletus (name changed) is just 24 but now undergoes treatment for heroin addiction at a rehabilitation center in northern Sri Lanka. The region, once the center of the armed conflict between the Sri Lankan army and Tamil Tigers, now faces a new crisisContinue Reading
By Ligi Payyappilly Mukachevo, April 22: What is it to live Good Friday in the war-torn Ukraine? Sister Ligi Payyappilly, a Catholic nun from India’s Kerala state, shares her experience of the war from her mission in Mukachevo, a city in western Ukraine. “This war has become our Good Friday,”Continue Reading
By Ranjit Devraj New Delhi, April 8, 2022: Prospects for India achieving the target of generating 100 gigawatts of solar power in 2022 have waned because of high levels of atmospheric pollution. Atmospheric pollution reduces solar power generation in two main ways: by absorbing and scattering the sun’s rays andContinue Reading
By Sami Ahmad Ranchi, April 3, 2022: A notification by the government of Jharkhand banning ‘illegal mining and selling of mica’ has put the livelihoods of thousands of mica scrap dealers and laborers in jeopardy. Around 200,000 unorganized workers are involved in mica business in Jharkhand, a mineral rich state,Continue Reading
By Anand Mathew Varanasi, April 3, 2022: The Indian Missionary Society has a new pan Indian service team for the coming six years headed by Father Prasanna Raj. They were elected at a week-long general chapter that ended March 1 at Vishwa Jyoti Gurukul, Christnagar, Varanasi, the mother house ofContinue Reading
