By Matters India Reporter Kottayam, Nov. 7, 2018: A court in Kerala has agreed to consider the murder of a Dalit Christian youth as an incident of honor killing, the first such case in the southern Indian state. Pronouncing its order on a petition moved by Special Prosecutor C SContinue Reading
New Delhi, Nov. 6, 2018: Hundreds of children here have demanded a complete ban on the use of firecrackers to check air and sound pollution during Diwali and other festivities across the country. Amid chants of “Hum Bacchon Ne Thana Hai Patakhe Nhi Chalana Hai” and “Patakhe Lena Band KaroContinue Reading
Kochi , Nov 6: The police team probing the rape charges against Bishop Franco Mulakkal of Jalandhar may soon initiate proceedings against him for failing to produce his laptop for verification by November 5 – the deadline set by the police. Officials said the bishop’s PRO Father Peter Kavumpuram, inContinue Reading
By Rita Joseph New Delhi, Nov. 5, 2018: Every other Indian believes banning firecrackers during Diwali will help make the festival of lights pollution free, according to a leading market research and analysis company. Velocity MR, which conducted a pan India study over the past two years, notes that majorityContinue Reading
Thiruvananthapuram, Nov. 5, 2018: Amid heightened security and a renewed verbal battle, the Sabarimala hill temple in Kerala opened on November 5. However, the shrine in Pathanamthitta district remained inaccessible to women between 10 and 50 years of age despite the state government’s offer of protection. Video footage of aContinue Reading
Panaji, Nov. 5, 2018: The mortal remains of Bismarque Dias, an activist priest, will finally be laid to rest three years after he was found murdered under mysterious circumstances in November 2015, even as his family’s campaign for justice, believing he was murdered, remains inconclusive. Bismarque was initially reported missing,Continue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, Nov. 5, 2018: India’s press freedom has “worsened,” says the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). In this year’s Global Impunity Index (GII) on press freedom based on a report CPJ, India ranked at 14th position. The unsolved cases of India remain 18.Continue Reading
Aizawl, Nov. 5, 2018: The administration of Mizoram plans to reach out an influential Church body to address a demand for the removal of the state’s chief election commissioner. An apex NGOs committee has set November 5 as the deadline for the ouster of S B Sashank leading to anContinue Reading
Kohima, Nov.4, 2018: The apex church body in Nagaland finds the recent Supreme Court judgments decriminalizing homosexuality between consenting adults as well as adultery, “detestable” and “unacceptable” to Christians. The Nagaland Baptist Church Council (NBCC) deliberated on the court rulings threadbare at its executive meeting held on October 30-31. “LegalizingContinue Reading
Kochi: After the controversial land deal in Ernakulam – Angamaly archdiocese which shook the Syro Malabar Church in Kerala, a petition has been submitted in the Ernakulam Munsif Court against another land transaction in Church. Polachan Puthuppara, president of Kerala Catholic Association for Justice, has filed a petition in theContinue Reading
