By Purushottam Nayak Partoma, March 5, 2020: More than 35,000 people who on March 5 attended a Marian festival in a village under Kandhamal district of Odisha prayed for the victims of the recent sectarian violence in the national capital. “The victims of the Delhi riot are suffering like whatContinue Reading
Bharuch, March 5, 2020: Vijay Kumar, a resident of the Tamil Nadu, has sought help from his friend Abdulkhuda Mohd Hanif Shaikh to build a temple. Shaikh, also from Tamil Nadu’s Paraipatti village, has been living in Gujarat’s Baruch for a decade. He has collected 300,000 rupees from his friendsContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Secunderabad, March 6, 2020: The Federation of Telugu Churches (FTC) has rejected the Amendment Act (CAA), National Registry of Citizens (NRC) and National Population Register (NPR). FTC also urged the federal and state governments across the country to scrap CAA, NRC, and NPR. “While we rejectContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, March 5, 2020: The leaders of more than 4,000 Jesuits in India have demanded immediate withdrawal of controversial moves on a process to determine citizenship in the country and called for initiating dialogue with all concerned. Attempts to appropriate “nationhood and religion” for majoritarianism,Continue Reading
By Jessy Joseph New Delhi, March 5, 2020: Hundreds of Dalits, Tribals, Muslims and Christians from various parts of India gathered in New Delhi to protest against the implementation the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA), the proposed National Register of Citizens (NRC) and the National Population Register (NPR). The March 4Continue Reading
By Felix Anthony Guwahati, March 4, 2020: The recent violence and pogroms across India leave us wondering if we are in a ‘controlled democracy,’ laments Archbishop Thomas Menamparampil, who recently won an award for journalism. In India has seen a steady erosion of the importance of the legislatures, both atContinue Reading
By Joanna Slater and Niha Masih New Delhi, March 4, 2020: Lying under a striped blanket, her face blank with exhaustion, Shabana Parveen described how she and her family had run for their lives. Rioters armed with rods and sticks surged into her lane in northeast Delhi last week lookingContinue Reading
New Delhi, March 4, 2020: Wired broadband internet services in the Kashmir Valley will be restored in full and access to social media websites will be permitted from March 4 evening, a senior official of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited said. However, mobile internet services will continue to be restricted, withContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Indore, March 4, 2020: A human development center in Indore, central India, celebrated its 20th anniversary on the occasion of the “International Waste Pickers’ Day.” More than 1,200 women, men, youth and children from the slums of Indore city associated with Janvikas (people’s welfare) Society, witnessedContinue Reading
Ranchi, March 3, 2020: The Church believes in an inclusive society, said Auxiliary Bishop Theodore Mascarenhas of Ranchi archdiocese. He was also the secretary-general of Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI). Bishop Mascarenhas told The Telegraph, “The present chief minister (of Jharkhand) is a nice person and we are hopefulContinue Reading
