Aizawl, Jan 23, 2019: Thousands of people, including students, hit the streets across Mizoram on Wednesday to protest against the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill. Effigies of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh were burnt as protesters took out rallies from Aizawl’s seven district headquarters and at overContinue Reading
Chennai, Jan. 23, 2019: Artists in Chennai are unhappy that Loyola College has apologised for display of satirical paintings on contemporary issues on campus. On January 21, the Catholic minority institution now at the centre of a controversy over art works put up by a cultural group not from theContinue Reading
Kochi, Jan 23, 2019: Sister Lucy Kalapura, who took part in a protest against rape-accused Bishop Franco Mulakkal, has been served with a second notice by the Franciscan Clarist Congregation (FCC). She has been asked to give a written explanation to the Mother Superior by February 6. The second noticeContinue Reading
Narakal, Jan. 23, 2019: People of Vypin Island in Kerala have come together and drawn up plans to celebrate a local Gandhian’s birth centenary and mark 20th year of his demise with release of a documentary film, flood relief fund and medical assistance to the needy, and other year longContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Moolampilly, January 22, 2019: Father Augustine Mulloor OCD, provincial, blessed the newly built two houses at Moolampilly, a commencement of the fifth phase of flood relief program by Teresian Integral Development Endeavour (TIDE), a social service unit of St. Pius X Manjummel Province of Discalced Carmelites,Continue Reading
Kailashahar, Jan. 22, 2019: The Hindu Jagran Manch, a Hindu right-wing group, claimed that 98 Christians belonging to 23 tribal families were “reconverted” to Hinduism in Tripura. The people, mostly tea garden workers hailing from Bihar and Jharkhand, had been converted to Christianity in 2010, Tripura unit president of theContinue Reading
Mumbai, Jan 21, 2019: India’s first-ever all-women political party — the National Women’s Party (NWP) — was launched on Monday in Mumbai and it will contest half — 283 — of the 545 Lok Sabha seats in the 2019 elections. The NWP, described as “a party of mothers”, has beenContinue Reading
By John Dayal Baripada, January 22, 2019: This night 20 years ago, 1999, as they slept in their jeep in a forested village of Manouharpur in Orissa, Australia-born leprosy worker Graham Stuart Staines (1941 – 23 January 1999) and his young sons Timothy (8) and Philip (10) were surrounded, theirContinue Reading
Jhabua, Jan. 20, 2019: A Catholic priest has been arrested in Jhabua district of Madhya Pradesh for allegedly abetting the suicide of a 17-year-old girl, the police said Jan 20. The accused was identified as Father Prakash Damor (33). The suicide note of the girl, who allegedly hanged herself atContinue Reading
Bhopal, Jan. 21, 2019: A delegation of Rashtriya Isai Maha Sangh (RIMS) lead by Father Dr. Anand Muttungal met the law minister P C Sharma on Jan. 18 and sought withdrawal of false and fabricated cases of forced conversion against them. The minister has assured to withdraw the false casesContinue Reading
