By Matters India Reporter Mumbai, Jan 6, 2020: Around 200,000 people are expected to attend the 27th ‘Grand Cultural Gathering of Indian Indigenous Peoples’ in Mumbai. “The expected mass community attendance is going to be one of the unique events in the world,” said Ashok Chaudhary, an organizer. The JanuaryContinue Reading
New Delhi, Jan 5, 2020: Masked goons, armed with sticks and stones, on January 5 barged into Delhi’s prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru University campus and beat up students and teachers, spreading chaos and terror. Around 30 students, all from Left-backed groups, and 12 teachers were injured. The Left students and theContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Nangathur, Jan 6, 2020: A remote village in Tamil Nadu recently witnessed a unique funeral service. Children of Pockisha Mary on December 31 distributed saplings of fruit-bearing trees to 120 residents of Nangathur to keep their mother’s memory alive. Mary died on December 29 following oldContinue Reading
Guwahati, Jan 5, 2020: Naresh Koch became the first ‘declared foreigner’ to die in captivity in the New Year. He happened to belong to the Koch-Rajbongshi community that has been demanding Scheduled Tribe along with five other indigenous communities in Assam, eastern India. Doctors at the Guwahati Medical College HospitalContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Rupnagar, Jan 5, 2020: An apology to Cardinal Oswald Gracias, head of the Catholic Church in India, has not ended the woes of Bollywood actor Raveena Tandon, director-choreographer Farah Khan and comedian Bharti Singh. Police in Rupnagar, Punjab, have registered a case against the three forContinue Reading
Kolkata, Jan 4, 2020: The heads of some of Calcutta’s leading schools will participate in a walk against the CAA-NRC and the use of force to stifle dissent. A meeting at St Paul’s Cathedral on Jan. 3, chaired by the bishop of the Calcutta diocese of the Church of NorthContinue Reading
Nirmala Carvalho Mumbai, Jan3, 2020: A leading Christian activist in India is warning about a “heightened intolerance towards the Christian faith” after anti-Christian incidents in the country in late December. On Dec. 28, several men were arrested after being accused of posing for a photograph with their Bibles outside aContinue Reading
Thiruvanathapuram, Jan. 1, 2020: The Kerala government on Jan. 1 decided to bring in an ordinance that permits the conduct of burial rituals of Jacobite parishoners in their family cemetry at the churches that are now under the control of the Orthodox faction of the Malankara church. The government decidedContinue Reading
Shanghai, December 30, 2019: A Chinese court sentenced the pastor of the Early Rain Covenant Church, Wang Yi, to nine years in prison on charges of inciting subversion of state power and illegally operating a business. Wang was among dozens of churchgoers and leaders of the Early Rain Covenant ChurchContinue Reading
By Donald G. McNeil Jr. Gangotri, Dec. 31, 2019: High in the Himalayas, it’s easy to see why the Ganges River is considered sacred. According to Hindu legend, the Milky Way became this earthly body of water to wash away humanity’s sins. As it drains out of a glacier here,Continue Reading
