Guwahati, Sept. 18, 2019: Even as the National Register of Citizens (NRC) have become a nightmare for many people from the indigenous communities who failed to make the cut, the register has included 60 orphans brought up in Snehalaya Orphanage in Guwahati. These children were rescued without any valid documentsContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter with inputs from globalsistersreport.org Dwaraka, September 18, 2019: More than 1,500 Catholic nuns from 34 congregations were among some 2,800 people who attended a prayer program in Kerala against alleged media criticism of religious life. “The aim of the meeting was to correct many baseless allegationsContinue Reading
Jamshedpur, Sept. 16., 2019: 15 year-old student of St Xavier’s High School at Chaibasa was found hanging at her home in the Patahatu area, some 80km from the steel city, on Saturday. Her mother has accused a priest at the missionary school of humiliating and torturing her daughter. Jyoti Bari,Continue Reading
Matters India reporter Narakkal, Sept. 12, 2019: A documentary film, almost 3 years in the making, featuring the life and times of legendary Gandhian, Sarvodayam Kurian of Vypin Island in Ernakulam district of Kerala has been nominated to two International Film Festivals, in Poland and Italy. The producer and directorContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Patna, September 15, 2019: While rest of India debated the federal Home Minister’s suggestion to make Hindi the national language, students of a Jesuit college in Patna sang paeans to the language. The students of St Xavier’s College of Management and Technology in the capital cityContinue Reading
Hyderabad, Sept. 15, 2019: Twelve people were killed and another 36 went missing when a private tourist boat with 72 on board overturned in the swirling waters of the Godavari river at Kachuluru village of Devipatnam block in Andhra Pradesh’s East Godavari district on Sept. 15 afternoon. East Godavari SuperintendentContinue Reading
Hyderabad, September 15,2019: Moral policing continues unabated at Hyderabad’s St Francis College for Women, an arts and science college in the city’s Begumpet area. On Friday, multiple students were halted at the gates of the institute because their kurti was an inch above their knees, leading to an altercation withContinue Reading
Matters India reporter Guwahati, Sept. 13, 2019 — The 23rd Triennial Conference of the Xavier Board of Higher Education was inaugurated at Don Bosco Institute, Kharguli, Guwahati on 13th September 2019. The theme of the three-day conference (13-15 September) is “Revisioning Higher Education in India: Challenges and Strategies for CatholicContinue Reading
Matters India reporter Shillong, September 13, 2019 : A group of Salesian family members working in India and Sri Lanka are spending about a month reflecting on their life and mission living the charism of their founder and inspiration St John Bosco in the cradle of Salesian Missions in northeastContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kochi, September 13, 2019: Cardinal George Alencherry has demanded the immediate release of a Catholic priest and a catechist who were arrested in Jharkhand state, eastern India, for alleged conversion charges. Father Binoy John and catechist Munna Hansda are “under unjust judicial custody,” laments the headContinue Reading
