Rajamala, September 10, 2019: A one-year-old toddler fell off a moving jeep but survived the fall and was reunited with its mother hours later in Kerala. Rohita, the infant, fell from her mother Sathyabhama’s lap at 5th mile checkpost in Rajamala at around 9:30 pm on September 7 as theirContinue Reading
Ranchi, September 10, 2019: Jharkhand Police have dropped the murder charge against 11 accused in the death of 22-year-old Tabrez Ansari attacked by a mob four months ago in the eastern Indian state’s Saraikela-Kharsawan area. Citing the “final post-mortem report” that Ansari died of “cardiac arrest,” and that it wasContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, September 9, 2019: On the eve Indian bishops’ Ad Limina Apostolorum visit to the Vatican, a senior Dalit leader requested Pope Francis to speak to Church leaders on the plight of Dalit Christians. “Now, at the eve of the Ad Limina visit to RomeContinue Reading
By Felix Anthony Miao, September 9, 2019: The Miao unit of the Catholic Religious in India (CRI) organized an animation program for the domestic support staff to celebrate the birthday of Blessed Virgin Mary. The domestic support staff in convents and schools work restlessly without break behind the four wallsContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kolkata, September 9, 2019: Jesuit social activist Father Irudaya Jothi has received this year’s “Nation Builders Award 2019” The event on Sept 7 at Rotary Sadan took place a day ahead of the celebrations of the International Literacy Day. Father Jothi received the award, along withContinue Reading
By Walter Fernandes Shillong, September 7, 2019: A Jesuit priest, Prof. Alphonsus D’Souza, who was often known as “Father of Sociology in Nagaland” died on September 6. He was 78. Father D’Souza, Senior Fellow at North Eastern Social Research Centre, Guwahati (NESRC) passed away on September 6 morning. NESRC wasContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Bhagalpur, September 7, 2019: Police in Jharkhand state, eastern India, have taken into custody two Catholic priests and a catechist for allegedly indulging in forceful religious conversion. A message from Father N M Thomas, vicar general of the diocese of Bhagalpur, says the police of DeodardContinue Reading
Matters India reporter Guwahati, September 7, 2019: Speaking at the 8th annual convocation of Assam Don Bosco University Guwahati on September 7, Assam Governor Jagdish Mukhi said, “The government of India wants to establish the country as an ‘AI Garage.’ The governor explained saying, “It means that if a companyContinue Reading
Kolkata, September 7, 2019: A Universal Peace Rally was organized at Kolkata to honor Mother Teresa’s 22nd death anniversary, by the Indian Karate Association with the co-operation of the All Faith Forum, St Teresa of Avila Church, Mother House and Kolkata Police. The peace rally on September 5 began fromContinue Reading
Bengaluru, September 7, 2019: 1.55 am on September 7 came and went. It was time for the Vikram lander of Chandrayaan 2, India’s moon mission, to land on moon. Amid a stunned silence at the control room of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), India’s top space scientist K SivanContinue Reading
