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
By Vijaita Singh New Delhi, Sept 7, 2020: India’s Home Ministry has suspended this year the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA) licenses of six NGOs, four of them Christians. An FCRA license is mandatory for a non-profit organization to receive funds from overseas. At least two U.S.-based Christian donors areContinue Reading
By Manju Devarapalli Hyderabad, Sept 7, 2020: A Capuchin seminary in Andhra Pradesh organized a seminar on the Indian Constitution to mark the death anniversary of Gauri Lankesh, a journalist who promoted secular values and liberal thinking. “The future priests should not be confined to the theology in theory butContinue Reading
Mumbai, Sept 6, 2020: More than 400 groups of artists, workers, activists and individuals from different backgrounds have come together to form a single united front for voices of dissent. Voices for dissent echoed from different parts of India as the ‘Hum Agar Uthe Nahin Toh’ (If We Do NotContinue Reading
