By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, Dec 20, 2019: Jesus was born with questionable identities of citizenship, place of origin and even parenthood, points out Father George Pattery, the head of more than 4,000 Jesuits in India, where a recent amendment to the citizenship law has provoked countrywide uproar. “InContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Mananthavady, Dec 19, 2019: A court in Kerala on December 19 allowed a Catholic nun dismissed from her congregation to remain at her convent. The Mananthavady Munsiff Court that heard the petition from Sister Lucy Kalappura gave an injunction to her ouster from the convent andContinue Reading
Thiruvananthapuram, Dec 18, 2019: Archbishop Soosa Pakiam M. of the Latin Archdiocese of Thiruvananthapuram has come out against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, terming it discriminatory. Discrimination against anyone in a democratic and secular country like India was unacceptable, the Archbishop said at a press conference here on Dec 18. TheContinue Reading
By Joanna Slater BANGALORE, India — The sun was climbing in the morning sky as a man in his late 50s stripped to his underwear and prepared to lower himself into a pit of sewage. Kaverappa looked down into the shaft behind a house on the southern rim of India’sContinue Reading
Authorities in the Japanese city of Hiroshima have planned to demolish two buildings that survived the 1945 atomic bomb, but some locals want them preserved as landmarks, as reported on Dec. 16. The two buildings, built in 1913, were first used as a military clothing factory, and later as aContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, Dec 16, 2019: A Delhi Court on December 16 convicted Kuldeep Singh Sengar, a former legislator of Uttar Pradesh, in the two-year-old Unnao rape case. District and Sessions Judge Dharmesh Sharma passed the order against Sengar, who has been expelled from the Bharatiya JanataContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kolkata, Dec 16, 2019: Jesuit Father Felix Raj, vice chancellor of St Xavier’s University, Kolkata, on December 16, was given the Hall of Fame award of Australia for his outstanding contribution and lifetime achievements in the field of education and management. The award was given atContinue Reading
By Sunil Rosario Kolkata, Dec 16, 2019: The Archdiocese of Calcutta has honored the Loreto congregation for planting nearly 140,000 trees and adopting solar power for all their educational institutions. Sister Sabrina Edwards, provincial of the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary, or Loreto Sisters, on December 14 received theContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Palai, Dec 16, 2019: Tens of thousands of farmers converged in Palai to protest the deepening crisis in the agrarian sector in the southern Indian state of Kerala. The farmers came from 170 parishes of Ernakulam, Kottayam, and Idukki districts and first formed a protest wallContinue Reading
New Delhi, Dec. 16, 2019: Following anti-citizenship law protests that turned violent in south Delhi’s New Friends Colony area on Dec. 15 evening, Delhi Police personnel allegedly marched into the Jamia Millia Islamia University campus and brought about 150 students out of the premises. Many students said the detained studentsContinue Reading
