Nirmala Carvalho Mumbai, Jan 19, 2019: Nearly 10,000 people marked the 10th anniversary of the worst anti-Christian violence in India’s history by attending a public hearing on the Kandhamal attacks. The Jan. 12 meeting involved Archbishop John Barwa of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar, whose family was personally affected by the attacks. Kandhamal isContinue Reading
Kottayam, Jan 16, 2019: Nearly a week after the State government appointed a special prosecutor in the nun rape case, four of the five nuns who had protested against Bishop Franco Mulakkal, the accused, have once again been asked to leave the convent here. Official sources said Superior General ReginaContinue Reading
New Delhi, Jan 15, 2019: Kailash Satyarthi Children’s Foundation, a leading child rights group, has mobilised hundreds of its volunteers for providing support to the authorities in Kumbh Mela 2019 to track the cases of missing children. In Kumbh Mela 2013, nearly three lakh people had gone missing, which includedContinue Reading
Hyderabad,Jan. 14, 2019: A massive land scam allegedly committed by Church of South India Trust Association (CSIT) has been unearthed by the Andhra Pradesh CID and Serious Fraud Investigation Office’s Hyderabad unit. The investigation has revealed that the arrested accused, Archbishop Govada Dyvasirvadam and his associates have sold away landContinue Reading
Kozhikode, Jan 14, 2019: Swami Agnivesh, eminent social activist and Arya Samaj leader, deplored the atrocities on Christians like that witnessed in Kandhamal jungles of Odisha ‘shameful for the nation’ on January 12 while releasing at Kozhikode a documentary exposing Sangh Parivar’s Kandhamal fraud and travesty of Justice. “As anContinue Reading
Kandhamal, Jan. 14, 2019: About 3,000 survivors of the anti-Christian massacres in Orissa in 2008 still claim legitimate compensation in proceedings underway in front of the Supreme Court. The meeting held on Jan. 12 was attended by Archbishop John Barwa, of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar, and lawyer Colin Gonsalves, Thomas Minze, President ofContinue Reading
Mumbai, Jan 14, 2019: In a “dynamic and fast-changing” society, the Church in India must embrace “flexibility” in pastoral ministry, according to one bishop in the country. “Evangelization demands creativity and innovation. God is ever new and ancient,” said Bishop Thomas Dabre of Poona at the beginning of this week’sContinue Reading
By Devasagayaraj M. Zackarias New Delhi, Jan 12, 2019: The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI) Office for SC/BC is deeply concerned about the dichotomy in rendering social justice in India. Both the houses of the Parliament passed the bill giving 10% reservation in education and employment for the EconomicallyContinue Reading
By : Matters India Reporter Bhopal, Jan 11, 2019: Two Catholic priests have been injured one of them critically when the car in which they were travelling crashed on a tree in Central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh on January 11. The injured have been admitted to a private hospitalContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Bengaluru, Jan. 10, 2019: The second workshop for Dalit Christian artists will take place at the Indian Social Institute, Bengaluru, southern India. The Office for Scheduled Caste/Backward Class under the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI) is organizing the January 18-19 workshop to revive long forgottenContinue Reading
