By Matters India Reporter Secunderabad, April 1, 2019: The Federation of Telugu Churches has urged Christians in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana to vote for candidates who promote India’s secular and pluralistic character and foster communal harmony and peace. Vote for those “who strive for social justice and equality of theContinue Reading
Aizawl, Mar. 31, 2019: Come Monday and alcohol will not be available in Mizoram. State Excise and Narcotics Minister K. Beichhua said the MNF government had taken the step to save future generations from the menace of alcohol and drugs, and establish a clean Mizo society. Fulfilling its pre-poll promise,Continue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Miao, March 31, 2019: Church people in Arunachal have expressed relief over the recovery of Marian statues hours after they went missing from two grottoes in the northeastern Indian state. “It is indeed a matter of great relief that both the statues have been discovered. WeContinue Reading
Kolkata, March 29, 2019: A film based on a real-life story of Australian Christian missionary Graham Staines, who worked for the tribal poor and leprosy victims in Odisha, set to have a national theatrical release on March 29. Aneesh Daniel’s ‘The Least Of These: The Graham Staines Story’, that starsContinue Reading
Panaji, Mar. 26, 2019: Urging the electorate to reject the “terror of pseudo-nationalism”, the Council for Social Justice and Peace, the social wing of the influential Goa Church, urged voters on Tuesday to take on “corrupt defectors” and political opportunists. The statement by Fr. Savio Fernandes, Executive Secretary of theContinue Reading
Mumbai, Mar. 26, 2019: Christians from Mumbai, India are demanding more burial grounds ahead of the national election set to start on April 11. According to Mumbai’s Christian leadership, Christians have been forced to pile bodies on top on one another due to overcrowding in already established cemeteries. Speaking toContinue Reading
By Charvi Kathuria New Delhi, March 26, 2019: More than 50 million rural women have left national job market in India since 2005, according to a report of the National Sample Survey Office (NSSO), a federal government department. Female participation in the job market has gone down by 7 percentContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, March 25, 2019: Women across India will march together on April 4 to reject what they say is the current environment of hate and violence and to claim their constitutional rights as citizens of a democratic republic. Women’s March, India, is aimed at unitingContinue Reading
Mizoram Kohhran Hruaitute Committee, a conglomerate of 16 state churches, on Saturday appealed to all churches across the state to hold mass prayers on April 5 or 6 in view of the upcoming Lok Sabha polls and Assembly byelection. Committee chairman Rev. Lalhmingthanga told The Telegraph that the church bodyContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Varanasi, March 24, 2019: The All India Catholic Union (AICU), Asia’s oldest Laity organization, has expressed deep concern at the communal polarization that is peaking on the eve of the general elections in the country in April and May, AICU president Lancy D’Cunha and spokesman Dr.Continue Reading
