By Matters India Reporter Kolkata, March 7, 2020: A lecture program to commemorate a 20th century Belgian Jesuit missionary who worked in Kolkata explored the selfhood and identity in Islamic thought. The fourth Victor Courtois Memorial Lecture was held at St. Xavier’s University, Kolkata on March 7. Islamologist Father VictorContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Mumbai, March 7, 2020: Mumbai has been chosen as one of the locations to mark the International Women’s Day on March 8 for the event organized by the Catholic Women’s Council (CWC) demanding “equality” and “dignity” in the church. In India, the event will take placeContinue Reading
Rameswaram, March 7, 2020: On the occasion of the annual festival of St. Anthony’s Church in Katchatheevu, 2,570 pilgrims were sent to the island from Rameswaram by Collector K Veera Raghava Rao on Friday. The two-day festival began on March 6. According to district administration, 3,004 people, across India, hadContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, March 6, 2020: The federal Information and Broadcasting Ministry on March 6 imposed a 48-hour ban on two Malayalam television channels for their “coverage of the Delhi riots.” The channels — Asianet News and MediaOne – began showing a black screen from 7:30 pmContinue Reading
New Delhi, March 6, 2020: Non-governmental organizations supporting public causes through recognized means of protest and dissent cannot be deprived of funds from foreign contributors and sources, the Supreme Court said on March 6 in a potentially key verdict. The top court said organizations that did not have a politicalContinue Reading
Bengaluru, March 6, 2020: All the accused in a case of sedition filed over a school play in Karnataka’s Bidar have been granted anticipatory bail by a court that said the case lacked enough basis. The play, themed on protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA), “has not caused anyContinue Reading
By I P Sarto Burdwan, March 6, 2020: The social arm of Asansol diocese in West Bengal state has started a center to care for the special need children. The center named “Roshini” (light) was opened on March 4 at Ekpere, a village about 140 km northwest of Kolkata, theContinue Reading
Lucknow, March 6, 2020: The Uttar Pradesh government has put up hoardings in prominent intersections in state capital Lucknow, with names, addresses and photos of some of those accused of violence during protests against the citizenship law in Lucknow in December last year. The people named on the hoardings haveContinue Reading
By Maria Stephen Bhopal, March 5, 2020: More than 300 farmers and their organizations from 17 states who attended a Church-initiated conference have urged the Indian government to encourage organic farming and set up more seed banks. “The future of good farming has to be environment friendly,” asserted the MarchContinue Reading
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
