By Matters India Reporter Mumbai: Cardinal Oswald Gracias, head of the Catholic Church in India, on January 19 condoled the death of an Italian missionary nun who served the country for more than seven decades. Mother Giovanna Saveria Alberoni, former superior general of the Ursulines of Mary Immaculate congregation whoContinue Reading
By Omar Rashid Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh Police have so far registered 17 cases under an ordinance to prohibit unlawful religious conversions promulgated in November 2020. As many as 14 cases registered under the Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Ordinance, 2020, relate to inter-personal relationships, marriages andContinue Reading
New Delhi: Women in more than 300 districts on January 18 asserted their rights as Indian farmers on Mahila Kisan Diwas. All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee (AIKSCC) that organized the program highlighted that 75 percent of all agricultural work is done by women and that the three controversial farmContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kochi: The Kerala-based Syro-Malabar Church has urged the federal government to grant “the just demands” of farmers who have been protesting on the borders of the national capital for weeks. A statement from the Church’s media commission on January 17 noted that the farmers are protestingContinue Reading
Jamshedpur : Loyola School, Jamshedpur kicked off its platinum jubilee celebrations on its premises in Beldih on Jan 15 by conducting a small event, involving teachers, Jesuits, and members of the school’s alumni association. Although the school has a lot of plans for its platinum jubilee year, the celebrations willContinue Reading
Mumbai: Around 10,000 people marched towards Azad Maidan in Mumbai on January 16 in support of India’s farmers battling the three agriculture laws forcibly passed by the federal government. The farmers’ supporters walked from Islam Gym to the protest point at the call of a coalition of people’s and peasant’sContinue Reading
New Delhi: For 20-year-old Aman Khatri, getting a Covid-19 vaccination today was one of the best things to happen in almost 10 months, for most of which he couldn’t even go home. Mortuary cleaning at New Delhi’s Rajeev Gandhi Speciality Hospital may not have been the ideal job to haveContinue Reading
By Alok Mohit Patna: The hurriedly enacted farm laws aim to introduce corporate farming in India, says Jesuit social scientist Father Prakash Louis. The enactment of the three farms laws at a time when the country was grappling with problems related to Covid-19 was “anti-people and anti-farmers,” Father Louis assertedContinue Reading
Vijayawada: The Crime Investigation Department of Andhra Pradesh police has arrested a Christian preacher for alleged making inflammatory speeches insulting another religion. Additional Director General of Police (CID) PV Sunil Kumar said Praveen Chakravarthi from Kakinada town in East Godavari district has allegedly made provocative comments that could potentially disturbContinue Reading
Vijayawada: Leaders of Telugu Desam Party’s Christian cell from 13 districts of Andhra Pradesh met in Vijayawada to resign to protest the alleged communal remarks of party chief and former Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu. Their move came days after the party lost another longtime minority leader, Philip C Tocher, aContinue Reading
