Kochi, Feb 27, 2020: Allegations of ‘love jihad’ have surfaced again in Kerala after a 24-year-old woman lodged a complaint of sexual abuse against her former employer. The police on February 25 arrested Ali Makkar, who runs Aleena Tours and Travels in Muvattupuzha in Ernakulam district, on charges of rape.Continue Reading
Panaji, Feb 26, 2020: The BJP on Wednesday appreciated US President Donald Trump for refusing to get drawn into the controversial CAA issue during this India visit, saying this scuttled attempts by some people who had created anti- government atmosphere to get him speak on the matter. BJP national spokesmanContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, Feb 26, 2020: The National Council of Churches in India (NCCI) on February 26 condemned the “dastardly attack on the vulnerable and the weak” in different parts of the national capital in the past four days. “Humanity has been knocked down one more time. OurContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Pune, Feb 26, 2020: Retired Bishop Valerian D’Souza of Poona, who was known as the singing prelate of India, died on Feb 25. He was 86. The funeral will be held at 11:30 am on February 27 at St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Pune. Bishop D’Souza was bornContinue Reading
Kochi, Feb 26, 2020: A Kerala High Court judge said on Feb. 25 he has received an anonymous letter threatening that he would be burnt alive for directing authorities to take over a church near Kochi from the Jacobite faction and hand it over to the Orthodox group as perContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, Feb 26, 2020: Archbishop Anil Couto of Delhi has asked Catholic parishes and Church institutions in the archdiocese to offer relief to those affected by the communal riots raging in the national capital. “At this trying moment when communal riots have suddenly gripped Delhi letContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, Feb 25, 2020: Even as India prepared to welcome the American President Donald J Trump, who on his two-day visit to India reportedly plans to discuss, among other things, the issue of religious freedom in India with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Religious LibertyContinue Reading
Neriamangalam, Feb 24, 2020: A 32-year-old Catholic priest died of drowning after a boat capsized in Kerala’s Periyar river. The mishap occurred at around 6:30 pm on February 23 when Father John Padinjattuvayalil and two other two priests of Kothamangalam diocese were in a boat. The boat turned upside downContinue Reading
New Delhi, Feb. 24, 2020: The Sunni Waqf Board, a top Muslim body, will accept the five-acre plot allotted by the Uttar Pradesh government in Ayodhya earlier this month in line with a Supreme Court verdict on the decades old temple-mosque dispute. The Muslim body today said apart from aContinue Reading
New Delhi, Feb 24, 2020: A Delhi Police officer was among five people killed February 24, the second day of violence that broke out across multiple northeast Delhi neighborhoods. Protesters for and against the controversial citizenship law threw stones, set vehicles and shops ablaze and transformed parts of the nationalContinue Reading
