By Matters India Reporter Bhopal, Dec. 16, 2018: A Catholic priest has protested the use of Christian religious activities at the oath ceremony of the new government of Mizoram. Such a practice “is not in accordance with the spirit of the Constitution,” asserts Father Anand Muttungal, national coordinator of theContinue Reading
Shillong, Dec 16, 2018: Various rescue teams on December 16 continued their efforts to locate 13 miners trapped while working in an illegal coal mine in Meghalaya’s East Jaintia Hills district. According to police and the district administration, so far only 3 helmets have been found. The miners were trappedContinue Reading
Kochi, Dec. 13, 2018: The Syro Malabar Catholic Church, which has been at the centre of a series of rows involving Bishop Franco Mulakkal and Cardinal George Alencherry, has now come out with a bizarre statement, saying that the parishioners have decided to boycott the media. In the December editionContinue Reading
Shillong, Dec. 13, 2018: A Meghalaya High Court judge stirred controversy after he wrote a judgement that said India should have been declared a “Hindu country.” Since partition of the subcontinent, during Independence, was done on the basis of religion, “Pakistan declared that it was an Islamic country… India shouldContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Vijayawada, Dec. 13, 2018: A former moderator of the Church of South India (CSI) has been reportedly arrested and jailed on December 11 by the Crime Investigation Department on alleged charges of corruption and illegal sale of Church properties. Bishop Govada Dyvashirvadam is the former bishopContinue Reading
KOCHI, Dec 12: Despite the KCBC (Kerala Catholic Bishops’ Council) vowing to set up Internal Complaints Committee (ICC) in all institutions run by the Church, it. nonetheless, expressed the impracticality of setting up ICC in nunneries and priestly congregations. “Convents are places where nuns live and therefore we cannot formContinue Reading
Shillong, Dec. 12, 2018: The Salesian province of St. John Paul II has mourned the death of Father Joseph Cilia, a missionary from Malta who served the people of northeastern India, especially the youth, for more tan six decades. Father Celia, a Salesian, died on December 10 at Shillong’s NazarethContinue Reading
Piravom, Dec. 11, 2018: The Kerala High Court on December 11 refused to hear a petition regarding the management of a church currently in the middle of a heated dispute between the two factions of Christians. A division bench of the court comprising of Justice PR Ramachandra Menon and JusticeContinue Reading
By Madan Sualsingh Daringbabadi, Dec.11, 2018: A tribal cultural group comprising women of Kandhamal district in Odisha, eastern India, has challenged society to change its attitude on gender stereotyping. Jana Shakti (people’s power), the cultural team of Jana Vikas (people’s development), an NGO, raised the challenged on December 11 atContinue Reading
Aizawl, Dec. 11, 2018: While the nation is grappling under population boom and the current generation opting for nuclear families and not more than 2 children, it is a known fact that many indigenous communities in India, in general and Northeast India in particular are facing the risk of dwindlingContinue Reading
