Kochi: The Kerala high court on Tuesday completed hearing in the appeal filed by Cardinal George Alencherry challenging a single bench’s order to register FIR against him and others in Syro Malabar Church land sale row. A division bench led by chief justice Antony Dominic has reserved the case forContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kolkata: The Jesuit-run Udayani (awakening) Social Action Forum in West Bengal is encouraging rural women to contend in local elections scheduled to take place in May. “Registering our women’s Self Help Groups (SHGs) federations at the block level into NGOs and train them to be independentContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Bhubaneswar: As members of the Dalit caste were protesting the Supreme Court order that prevented the immediate arrest of those being violent towards them across India on April 2, the Bishops of Odisha and other church leaders have planned to deliberate on the Dalits of OdishaContinue Reading
New Delhi: Violence against Christians are increasing in the National Capital Region of India, especially in the immediate neighboring states of Uttar Pradesh and Haryana. During the holy week some miscreants claiming to be custodians of the majority community desecrated the Church services and beat up the people praying insideContinue Reading
Panaji: India needs to emulate the tolerant principles and the positive energy of Imam Imdadul Rashidi, who despite losing his 16-year-old son in communal violence in West Bengal’s Asansol district last week implored the mobs not to exact revenge, a top church official said here on Tuesday. Secretary General ofContinue Reading
Environmental activist Prof E. Kunhikrishnan told this newspaper that the contention of the diocese is against the facts.Continue Reading
Thiruvananthapuram : Archbishop M.Susaipakiam of Trivandrum on Saturday slammed the the state’s Pinarayi Vijayan government for not doing a proper rehabilitation programme in wake of Cyclone Ockhi, while complimenting the Tamil Nadu government for rising to the occasion. Addressing reporters here, Archbishop M.Susaipakiam of Trivandrum said they were told thatContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kolkata: For last five years, in some parishes of Diocese of Baruipur, West Bengal, have experienced a silent revolution in a minuscule manner with regard to introducing women as part of the washing of the feet on Maundy Thursday. “Last year, I introduced it in aContinue Reading
Imphal: The Manipur government has rolled back its order to make Good Friday a full working day for all government offices, following protests by various civil bodies in the state, which has significant Christian population. Earlier, the government had said Good Friday would be a working day for all governmentContinue Reading
Mumbai: The Jesuit priests managing a parish in Mumbai have urged their people to consider shroud burials and forgo the use of coffins as part of their Lenten duties. “Lent is a good time for all of us to contemplate on a change in our choices. One such choice thatContinue Reading
