By Matters India Reporter New Delhi: The Evangelical Fellowship of India (EFI) has urged Christians in India to pray for the country on August 12. “Please observe this day in your Churches. Let us give thanks to God for our beautiful country and our fellow citizens. Let us also intercedeContinue Reading

KOLKATA: Three oldest churches of Kolkata are planning to augment security measures in the wake of the theft at St Paul’s Cathedral. From increasing the number of security personnel to man the church premises to augmenting the number of CCTV cameras, meetings are being held to look at arrangements thatContinue Reading

Kottayam: The Church has taken a consistent stance in the alleged sex scandal involving a few of its priests, said the supreme head of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church. Addressing the Church managing committee, the highest executive body of the Church that met in Kottayam on August 9, Catholicos andContinue Reading

By Matters India Reporter Bhubaneswar: As tenth year anniversary of the anti-Christian violence in Kandhamal (2008), Odisha, approaches, “Kandhamal Remembrance Week” is being observed from August 26 to September 2 in prayer across the country. “It is remembering victims of targeted hate and mass violence,” said John Dayal, human rightsContinue Reading

By Matters India Reporter New Delhi: Rights of Tribals in India have been oppressed, says a social worker. “The entire rights of indigenous people in the country are under subjugation,” Sister Anne Jesus Mary, a Franciscan Missionaries of Mary nun and social worker, based in Chhattisgarh, told Matters India. SheContinue Reading

Margao: Bailancho Ekvott, a women’s collective in Goa, has demanded a thorough probe into an online sex racket that promotes prostitution activities through a website in the name of the Basilica of Bom Jesus. “This is clearly a case of tarnishing the image of Goa and Goan women,” Auda ViegasContinue Reading