New Delhi, June 8,2020: Supreme Court on June 8 issued notice to the Centre and others and sought a detailed response from them on a plea alleging sharp rise in child trafficking cases during Covid-19 lockdown. A bench headed by Chief Justice S A Bobde was hearing the petition filedContinue Reading
New Delhi, June 7, 2020: India is all set to revise the legal age for marriage for women with the government forming a high-level committee on June 6 to go into the matter and submit recommendations by July 31. The taskforce will be headed by former Samata Party President JayaContinue Reading
Thiruvananthapuram, June 7, 2020: Cardinal Baselios Cleemis, head of the Syro-Malankara Church, has expressed disappointment over the federal health ministry’s decision to keep people above 65 away as places of worship open after more than three months of lockdown. The federal Ministry of Health and Family Welfare plans to letContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Bangalore, June 6, 2020: Pope Francis on June 6 accepted the resignation of Salesian Bishop Jerome Dhas Varuvel of Kuzhithurai in Tamil Nadu. The Pope has appointed Archbishop Antony Pappusamy of Madurai as Apostolic Administrator of Kuzhithurai, says a press release from the Conference of CatholicContinue Reading
New Delhi, June 5, 2020: India and China agreed on June 5 to resolve a dispute over their shared border in the Ladakh region through diplomatic channels, the Indian foreign affairs ministry said in a statement. The statement came a day before top generals of the two countries are dueContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, June 4, 2020: Persons aged above 65, those with comorbidities, pregnant woman and children below the age of 10 years should stay at home, say new norms for opening religious places after more than two months of nationwide lockdown. The federal Ministry of HealthContinue Reading
New Delhi, June 4, 2020: India’s Home Ministry on June 4 blacklisted 2,550 foreign members of an Islamic organization for violating visa rules. The ministry officials accused Tablighi Jamaat members from nearly 40 countries of staying in India during the nationwide coronavirus lockdown and indulging in missionary activities. The ministryContinue Reading
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
