By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, Jan 14, 2020: The Workers India Federation (WIF) ended its ninth annual general body meeting in Delhi on January 14 expressing its concern over the promulgation of the new labor rights by the federal government. The January 12-14 meeting, which was held at theContinue Reading
Kochi, Jan 14, 2020: The Kerala High Court has issued notice to a bishop and a priest accused in a case relating to the alleged forgery of documents for defaming Cardinal George Alencherry, Major Archbishop of the Syro-Malabar Church. The notice was issued on January 13 to Father Paul ThelekkattContinue Reading
Kochi, Jan 14, 2020: The issue of land deals has come up for discussion during the Synod session of the Syro-Malabar Church now underway at the Church headquarters in Kochi. Nine bishops of the Ernakulam-Angamaly Archdiocese raised the issue on January 13 when a suggestion came up that the SynodContinue Reading
Bengaluru, Jan 13, 2020: Hindu organizations in Karnataka’s Kanakapura town on January 13 took out a protest rally against the construction of a Jesus Christ statue in a village. Around 1,000 members of the Hindu Jagaran Vedike (Hindu awakening forum) and two other groups staged the rally alleging that theContinue Reading
New Delhi, Jan 12, 2020: People of different faiths came together on January 12 to participate in a ”sarva dharma sambhava” – a multi-faith prayer ceremony – at Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh, where anti-citizenship law protesters have been demonstrating for almost a month now. The inter-faith ceremony had a traditional Hindu-styleContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Guwahati, Jan 12, 11 2020: Assam Don Bosco University won the “Engaged University of the Year 2020 Asia Pacific (Entrepreneurship and Engagement Excellence) Award” on January 10. This prestigious international award was conferred by the Accreditation Council for Entrepreneurial & Engaged Universities (ACEEU), Netherlands. The awardContinue Reading
Nirmala CarvalhoJan Mumbai, Jan. 10, 2020: India’s leading cardinal has called the country’s controversial Citizen Amendment Act “a cause of great anxiety for all citizens.” Cardinal Oswald Gracias, the Archbishop of Bombay and president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI), made his comments on Jan. 8 at aContinue Reading
By Sudarshan Varadhan New Delhi, Jan 9, 2020: One woman reported a rape every 15 minutes on average in India in 2018, according to government data released on January 9, underlining its dismal reputation as one of the worst places in the world to be female. The highly publicized gangContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, Jan 9, 2020: The Indian Christian Women Movement (ICWM) on January 9 urged the federal government to roll back the “unwanted exercise” of Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and National Register of Citizens NRC and focus on “real issues affecting” the country. “In the stubbornContinue Reading
By Nirmala Carvalho Mumbai, Jan 9, 2020: A 28-year-old nun who left a convent claiming mental and sexual harassment, is now facing threatening calls, according to her family. The nun had been living at St. Joseph’s convent in Kerala, the same state where another nun has accused a bishop ofContinue Reading
