Purushottam Nayak Kerubadi, December 18, 2022: The people irrespective of religion, caste, creed, and color are mourning the death of their honest, simple, and popular catechist. Jajati Nayak was born July 1, 1950, in Kerubadi, a catholic village which has celebrated 100 years of Christian faith in 2015 of OurContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, Nov 15, 2022: Catholic Church leaders have sought an “unconditional apology” from the Indian government for the custodial death of Father Stan Swamy after a US based digital forensic firm has found that the late Jesuit was falsely implicated in a sedition case. “AtContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Chennai, Dec 13, 2022: The bounden duty of the media to become prophetic communicators was stressed at a national convention of journalists in Chennai, southern India. “As the members of the Fourth Estate and proud citizens of India, we cannot afford to turn a blind eyeContinue Reading
By Felix Anthony New Delhi, Dec 11, 2022: A Salesian priest was conferred with 12th International Human Rights Award for his contribution to peace with media reforms by the Delhi-based All India Council of Human Rights Council. Father C. M. Paul of the Calcutta Salesian province, currently working as ViceContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Meerut, Dec 2, 2022: Seven people jailed for alleged religious conversion in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh languish in a jail after they failed to execute the bail order two weeks after a court granted their release. The District court in Meerut, a townContinue Reading
By Sujata Jena Bhubaneswar, Nov 26, 2022: Hundreds of temporary teachers are on an indefinite strike demanding regularisation of their service in the eastern Indian state of Odisha. “We were employed by the government during 2003-2004 but the government sacked us in various false cases,” says a statement from theContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Gorakhpur, Nov 27, 2022: Cultural activists working for peace in northern India have organized a rally on harmony and reconciliation amid hate messages and violence against Christians, Muslims, Dalits, Tribals and women. The five-day rally that covered the eastern region of Uttar Pradesh state concluded NovemberContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kondagaon, Nov 24, 2022: Members of eight tribal families who practice Christian faith in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh are now living in fear after people of their community thrashed them for not giving up their new faith. “We were beaten up on November 22Continue Reading
By Allen Brooks Guwahati, Nov 24, 2022: Christian leaders in northeastern India on November 24 voiced great anxiety about “alarmist news” being spread in connection with the issue of conversion. Such “painful developments” are “nothing but an effort to malign our community which has rendered yeoman service in the fieldContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Old Goa, Nov 23, 2022: The Prison Ministry India (PMI) has urged the government and the Church to adopt concrete steps to ease the hardship of those behind bars, their families and rehabilitation of the released. “Incarceration must give every opportunity for prisoners to accept theirContinue Reading
