Chamoli: Seven people were killed and 170 missing on February 7, after a glacier break in Uttarakhand’s Chamoli district triggered massive flooding. Another report said ten bodies have died. Many villages were evacuated as floods of the Alaknanda and Dhauliganga rivers swept away five bridges, damaged homes and the nearbyContinue Reading
Kochi: The Kerala Catholic Bishops’ Council (KCBC) has hit out at the son of a former chief minister of the southern Indian state, for allegedly justifying the conversion of Hagia Sophia church to a mosque in Turkey. Chandy Oommen, son of Oommen Chandy, said in a recent speech that noContinue Reading
Kochi: The Orthodox Church on February 5 approached the Kerala High Court against the Act passed by the state government which allowed the burial of Jacobites in the cemeteries of churches under the control of the Orthodox. A bench of Justice P V Asha served a notice to the stateContinue Reading
By Joseph Victor Edwin New Delhi: The Islamic Studies Association has celebrated the “International Day of Human Fraternity” through a webinar. Craig Considine, a professor at the Department of Sociology in Rice University of the United States was the speaker for the February 4 program on “The Humanity of ProphetContinue Reading
Kochi: There is a need for Christians to close ranks with the protesting farmers who are fighting for justice, says Father Y.T. Vinayaraj, theologian, writer and chief editor of the Malankara Sabha Tharaka, the organ of the Malankara Mar Thoma Syrian Church headquartered in Thiruvalla. “The Christian faith is essentiallyContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Bolpur: Over the past five years, Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore’s Shantiniketan in the Bolpur town of West Bengal has added a tourist attraction — the Infant Jesus Church of Makrampur. The church has become a pilgrim center in Bhirbhum district attracting people from various religions, especiallyContinue Reading
By Priscilla Jebaraj New Delhi: Delhi has been turned into a fortress as the police continued to block access to border protest sites on February 2 with concrete barricades, barbed wire, nails and trenches across approach roads, and undertook massive deployment of security personnel. Journalists and other visitors were deniedContinue Reading
New Delhi: the Delhi Police on February 2 stopped journalists and others from entering the Singhu border, one of the sites of the protesting farmers. Earlier, those wanting to visit the protest site and the main stage could cross the barricades erected to prevent farmers from entering the national capitalContinue Reading
New Delhi: A nationwide law to ban religious conversions or interfaith marriages is not being planned since it falls under the dominion of states, the central government said in parliament on February 2. The assurance came amid a renewed drive for such legislation in several states ruled by the BharatiyaContinue Reading
New Delhi: A group of activists, eminent citizens and leaders of religious organizations has urged Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to take immediate steps to check coercive fund collection for the Ayodhya Ram Temple. “We wish to draw your urgent attention towards the recent activities with regard to Fund CollectionContinue Reading