By Matters India Reporter Panaji, Feb 13, 2020: The funeral of Wendell Rodricks, an ace fashion designer who tried LGBTQ community close to the Church, was held on February 13 at his ancestral village of Colvale in North Goa. Rodricks, an environmental and gay rights champion, was ailing for someContinue Reading
By Purushottam Nayak Bhubaneswar, Feb 13, 2020: A delegation of Christian and Muslim leaders in Odisha on February 13 met Chief Minister Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik to thank him for sanctioning funds to improve pilgrimage centers in the eastern Indian state. A day earlier, Patnaik sanctioned 160 million rupees toContinue Reading
By Santosh Digal Bombay, Feb. 13,2020: To address health concerns of the poor, the Health Promotion Trust (HPT) of the Archdiocese of Bombay has envisioned HPT 2030 with renewed commitment, Fides has learned. Ten years ago with a dynamic vision, “Health for All by 2020” was started. This vision flowedContinue Reading
Panaji, Feb 10, 2020; Two days after Goa Archbishop Filipe Neri Ferrao urged the central government to revoke the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA), calling the law ”divisive” and ”discriminatory”, state BJP general secretary Narendra Sawaikar on Feb. 10 urged him to stop claiming benefits under Article 30 of the IndianContinue Reading
New Delhi, Feb. 10, 2020: The National Commission for Minorities (NCM) has started a massive outreach programme to convince Christians in India that the Citizenship (Amendment) Act is a good move that should be appreciated by the community. While protests were raging across the country against the amended citizenship law,Continue Reading
Lucknow, Feb 10, 2020: People from the transgender community on Sunday took out a march here to express solidarity with the women protesting against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) at the city’s iconic Clock Tower in Hussainabad. Raising slogans against the government and the new law, protestors voiced their dissentContinue Reading
Panaji,Feb. 10, 2020: SS general secretary Suresh ‘Bhaiyyaji’ Joshi on Feb. 9 accused the Church of exploiting and converting people to Christianity by taking advantage of their “ignorance and poverty”. Stating that he had no objection if someone embraces Christianity on his own, Joshi said that forcible religious conversion ofContinue Reading
New DelhiFeb. 10, 2020: Quotas and reservations for promotions for government jobs is not a fundamental right, the Supreme Court said in a potentially key judgment delivered on Feb. 8. The top court said it could not compel states to provide quotas and states could not be forced to makeContinue Reading
Panaji, Feb. 9, 2020: Archbishop Filipe Neri Ferrao of Goa and Daman has urged the central government to “immediately and unconditionally revoke the Citizenship Amendment Act” and stop quashing the “right to dissent”. He also appealed to the government not to implement the proposed countrywide National Register of Citizens (NRC)Continue Reading
Matters India Reporter Sonada, February 7, 2020 — An NGO in the Darjeeling Hills working for clean environment has launched its first Zero Waste Store at 8th Mile Stream between Gorabari and Chattakpur villages on NH 55 (Hill Cart Road), on February 7. The store located at tourist taxi stopContinue Reading
