Ranchi, July 16, 2019: A court in Ranchi on July 15 ordered a 19-year-old woman to distribute five copies of the Quran for sharing a controversial post on Facebook. Richa Patel, a resident of Pitharia, a Ranchi suburb, was arrested on July 12, following a complaint by a local IslamicContinue Reading
Katihar, July 15, 2019: Locals in Dangi Tola village of Katihar district in Bihar claimed they have no option but to eat rats as floods have wreaked havoc and destroyed houses in the region. Around 300 families have been affected by floods in the area. Speaking to ANI, Talla Murmur,Continue Reading
Never before has the Church in Kerala landed in such a shattered situation where it has a series of sexual scandals to counter after priests have landed in police custody for their libidinous tendencies, nuns have come out in public protest against a Bishop accused of raping one of theirContinue Reading
New Delhi, July 15, 2017: More than three million people have been displaced across north and north-eastern India amid monsoon rain that has cost lives and destroyed homes. Storms and floods have ripped through areas of Nepal, Bangladesh and India, killing more than 130 people. At least 67 people lostContinue Reading
Kochi, July 14, 2019: Almaaya Munnettam, the combine of lay people in the Syro-Malabar Archdiocese of Ernakulam-Angamaly, has congratulated parishes which “ignored” a circular sent out by Cardinal George Alencherry, Major Archbishop of the Syro-Malabar Church, to be read out during the July 14 mass. The lay people’s combine hasContinue Reading
Thiruvananthapuram, July 14, 2019: Among the Christians, about 50 percent are Catholics (their three different Churches owe allegiance to the Pope), while the remaining 50 percent comprise the Orthodox and Jacobite factions of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church and the Mar Thoma Church (all three headquartered in Kerala) as wellContinue Reading
Kolkata, Jul 11=2, 2019: The West Bengal Assembly has adopted resolutions against rise of communalism in the eastern Indian state. One resolution was moved on July 11 by the ruling Trinamul Congress and the other by the Communist Party of India and Congress combine. Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee asserts theContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Hyderabad, July 12, 2019: Montfort Social Institute in Hyderabad, India, will host the launch meeting of the newly formed South Asian People’s Action on Climate Crisis (SAPACC), a rainbow coalition of South Asian civil society organizations. The September 18-21 meet on “Keep the Climate, Change theContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, July 11, 2019: Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI) has appointed Father Roque Noronha as the new national coordinator of Port Chaplains in India. Born on November 2, 1965, in Margao, Goa, Fr. Noronha was ordained a priest on May 7, 1994, for theContinue Reading
Chennai, July 11, 2019: When the water’s gone, you bathe in what drips out of the air-conditioner. You no longer allow yourself the luxury of an evening shower at the end of a steamy summer’s day. You sprint down two flights of stairs with plastic pots as soon as aContinue Reading