By Oliver Whang New Delhi, Feb. 14,2020 — Sitting in his basement, below the crowded dirt roads of Wazirabad village, Mohammad Saud leaned over the body of an injured black kite. The room was cramped, its walls chipping blue paint, the noise from the streets above drowned out by theContinue Reading
Guwahati, Feb. 15,2020: “For the last twenty years, my only innermost wish has been to perform Hajj. I wish Allah somehow fulfills that dream,” Sakina Khatun says. A visibly devastated Sakina explains that not many people in their area have been able to go to Mecca for the annual HajjContinue Reading
Thiruvanathapuram, Feb. 2020: The legislative assembly unanimously passed the Kerala Christian (Malankara Orthodox- Jacobite) (Right to burial of bodies in cemeteries) Bill 2020 on Tuesday. Law Minister A K Balan said the law that ensured the funeral of a parishioner in cemeteries belonging to his or her respective parish wasContinue Reading
New Delhi, Feb 14, 2020: In a significant decision, the Assam government has decided to shut down all government madrasas and Sanskrit tols, to reinvent themselves as high and higher secondary schools. Finance and education minister Himanta Biswa Sarma quoted as saying that the government would bring about a regulationContinue Reading
Bidar, Feb 14, 2020: The principal of school in Karnataka and the mother of a student, who were arrested in earlier February over a play critical of the Citizenship Amendment Act, have been granted bail. The play was staged in the school run by the Shaheen Group of Institutions byContinue Reading
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
