By Dr. George Jacob Kochi, Feb 6, 2022: India woke up on February 6 to a news the nation and her citizens never wanted to hear. Lata Mangeshkar passed away at Mumbai’s Breach Candy Hospital to Covid-related complications. The 92-year-old singer was fondly called ‘Nightingale of India’ for enthralling peopleContinue Reading
By Thomas Scaria Mangaluru, Feb 6, 2022: The government of Karnataka has issued an order to ban religious dress in educational institutions to help maintain harmony in the southern Indian state. The February 5 move came after a dress code controversy in educational institutions divided some coastal districts of theContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Thiruvananthapuram, Feb 6, 2022: Sister Grace Mathew was killed and three other Daughters of Mary nuns were wounded in a road accident near Thiruvananthapuram, capital of Kerala, southern India. The nuns were returning from Thrissur on February 5 after attending an official meeting when their carContinue Reading
By Lissy Maruthanakuzhy Pune, Feb 5, 2022: Maher (“My mother’s home” in Marathi), an organization working for destitute women, children and men, in various parts of India, is celebrating its silver jubilee these days. The organization on February 2 completed 25 years of service. It is celebrating the jubilee withContinue Reading
By Felix Anthony Bandra, Feb 3, 2022: A studio chapel was blessed and consecrated in the provincial house of the Society of St Paul in Mumbai’s Bandra suburb. Auxiliary Bishop John Rodrigues of Bombay blessed and inaugurated the chapel on January 28 in the presence of the Pauline Family membersContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Bengaluru, Jan 31, 2022: The government of Karnataka on January 31 conferred a Catholic center with the best NGO award for working among leprosy affected people in the southern Indian state. Sumanahalli (the village of good heart) Society, started by Bangalore archdiocese 45 years ago, wasContinue Reading
By Matters India Report New Delhi, Jan 22, 2022: An Indian Catholic priest serving Ethiopia as a missionary was released January 22, a day after an armed gang kidnapped him, according to information reaching the Indian capital. Father Joshua Edakadambil of the Order of the Imitation of Christ, or BethanyContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, Jan 19, 2022: Activists who work at grassroots level seem surprised at the federal government’s admission in the Supreme Court that no state has reported starvation deaths. “Dalits, Adivasis and minorities die of starvation when the Supreme Court was told no starvation death hasContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, Jan 20, 2022: Support and sympathy for a Catholic nun continue to pour in even a week after a court in Kerala dismissed her case against a bishop. Additional District and Sessions Court Judge G. Gopakumar on January 14 acquitted Bishop Franco Mulakkal ofContinue Reading
By Robancy A Helen Chennai, Jan 20, 22: A social activist from Tamil Nadu, southern India, has received this year’s Raoul Wallenberg Prize, a prestigious award given by the European Council. The ceremony took place in France and Arokiasamy Vincent Raj, popularly known as Evidence Kathir, received the award onlineContinue Reading