By Nirmala Carvalho Mumbai, Jun 3, 2020: India’s top prelate spoke up for religious freedom and against absolutism in government. Cardinal Oswald Gracias, Archbishop of Bombay and president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India, made his remarks in reference to Jesus’s command to “Render to Caesar things that areContinue Reading
By Purushottam Nayak Balliguda, June 3, 2020: Human rights activists in Odisha have mourned the death of a Catholic social worker in a road accident in the eastern Indian state. Jamaj Parichha, who worked for Dalits, tribals, and Other Backward Class communities, died in Bhubaneswar on June 2. He wasContinue Reading
Mau, June 2, 2020: A Christian pastor was beaten by alleged radical Hindu nationalists in the Mau district of Uttar Pradesh, northern India. Pastor Dinesh Kumar was returning from a prayer meeting on May 26 when he was attacked. He remains unconscious in a hospital. Police await Pastor Kumar toContinue Reading
New Delhi, June 2, 2020: Prominent leaders from Opposition parties have condemned the arrests of scholars and activists amid the ongoing Covid-19 lockdown. During an online news conference on June 1, the leaders supported those scholars and demanded that the government inquire into the real culprits who spread hate speechContinue Reading
By Gagan Pal Gandhinagar (Odisha), June 02, 2020: Residents of a remote village in Odisha joined as the June 2 national mourning in memory of migrant laborers who lost their lives during the lockdown. “We were invited to mourn and lament the loss of our brothers and sisters. As peopleContinue Reading
New Delhi, June 2, 2020: A mob on June 2 disrupted the funeral of a Covid-19 victim and forced his family members to flee with the half-burnt body, prompting intervention by the administration which later ensured the cremation at another place as per protocol. A 72-year-old man, native of theContinue Reading
New Delhi, June 2, 2020: Jessica Lal killer Manu Sharma, who was serving a life term in one of the most high-profile crimes in India, has been freed early from prison. He was released on June 1 along with 18 other prisoners from Delhi’s Tihar Jail. Delhi Lieutenant Governor AnilContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Secunderabad, June 1, 2020: The Catholic Health Association of India (CHAI), a network of Catholic hospitals and healthcare centers across the country, plans to provide food kits to 1,000 families for six months. As part of socioeconomic support through its member institutions, CHAI is gearing upContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Ranchi, June 1, 2020: The bishops of Ranchi have written to Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren to treat public worship as essential services. Archbishop Felix Toppo and Auxiliary Bishop Theodore Mascarenhas requested the chief minister to request the federal government the church’s proposal to resume publicContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Chennai, June 1, 2020: Father Pascal Petrus of Archdiocese of Madras-Mylapore is the first death of a priest from coronavirus in Tamil Nadu. He was 70. Father Petrus, the parish priest of Choolai, died at 7 pm on May 30 in Tamil Nadu Government Multi-Super-Specialty Hospital,Continue Reading
