By Matters India Reporter Bhopal, Sept 11, 2020: The future of India looks grim as Facebook is being widely used to inject hatred and spread communal violence within the country, alleges Shibu Thomas, founder director of Persecution Relief, an inter-denominational organization dedicated to helping the Church in India. In aContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Ahmednagar (Maharashtra), September 11, 2020: A Salesian NGO has built a new check-dam at Ujjani-Pimpalgaon in Ahmednagar, Maharashtra, Western India to address the agrarian distress of farmers. The Don Bosco Development Society (DBDS) through its implementing partner, Bosco Gramin Vikas Kendra (BGVK) is currently implementing theContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Peratta, September 10, 2020: Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Tellicherry Social Service Society (TSSS), a social work wing of the Archdiocese of Tellicherry, continues to build houses for the poor in Kannur and Kasargod districts of Kerala. On September 9, a new house built by TSSS wasContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Varanasi, Sept 9, 2020: Two Dalit right activists from Varanasi are among 30 selected for awards for promoting Dalit rights. Ang Madad Foundation, a NGO based in Bhagalpur, Bihar, September 8 announced the awards to be given at the end of September. Lenin Raghuvanshi and ShrutiContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Secunderabad, September 9, 2020: The premier healthcare organization of the Catholic Church in India is to provide Personal protective equipment (PPE) to its member hospitals to combat COVID-19. “The battle against COVID-19 continues in our country. With the number of positive cases and resulting deaths risingContinue Reading
By Asad Hashim Islamabad, Sept 8, 2020: A court in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore has sentenced a Christian man to death for having committed “blasphemy,” his lawyer says, in the latest case of Pakistan’s strict religious laws being applied against minorities. Asif Pervaiz, 37, has been in custodyContinue Reading
New Delhi, Sept 8, 2020: The People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) says the freedom of press faces external threats from the state and its storm troopers and from the owners of private media within. This was highlighted in a PUCL report on how the news media has functioned inContinue Reading
New Delhi, Sept 8, 2020: A member of India’s parliament has criticized Pope Francis for comparing gossiping with coronavirus. “I’m not sure about this, Your Holiness… Sometimes it seems like Covid might be a tad bit worse…” tweeted Varun Gandhi, a member of the Lok Saha (peolple’s house), the lowerContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Hyderabad, Sept 7, 2020: Revival of grant-in-aid to Christian minority schools, land for cemeteries and stringent action against those attacking Christians are in an eight-point charter of demands that the Telangana State People’s Assembly on September 7 submitted to opposition parties in the southern Indian state.Continue Reading
New Delhi, Sept 7, 2020: With 96.2 percent literacy rate, Kerala became India’s most literate state, according to the latest figures released by the National Statistical Office. Delhi came in second with 89 percent literacy rate. Uttarakhand with 87.6 percent and Assam with 85.9 percent are placed in third andContinue Reading