By Matters India Reporter Jalandhar, Aug 31, 2022: The diocese of Jalandhar has decided to close all its schools on September 1 to its concern over the attack on a church at Patti near Tarn Taran in the northern Indian state of Punjab. “We call upon everyone to work towardsContinue Reading
By Matters India reporter Panaji, August 29, 2022: People from different sections of society in Goa August 28 gathered at Azad Maidan to demand the revoking of premature release of the 11 convicts in the Bilkis Bano case in Gujarat. They protested against the release and demanded justice for BilkisContinue Reading
By Sujata Jena Bhubaneswar, Aug 26, 2022: A state-level peace and harmony convention was held in Odisha on the fourteenth anniversary of the Kandhamal communal massacre in the eastern Indian state. More than 300 civil society groups, political leaders, journalists, lawyers, writers, students, and academicians, including priests, and nuns acrossContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Tura, Aug 18: A Salesian college in Meghalaya has completed 100 years of service in the northeastern Indian state. The centenary of the Salesians entry into the region and Don Bosco college in Tura recently took place at the college on August 18. Minister of FoodContinue Reading
Matters India Reporter Midnapore, August 15, 2022: What started as a casual visit to a Correctional Home (Central Prison) in Berhampore in Murshidabad district of West Bengal, is now 25 years old and founder has turned 80 years old on August 15. Salesian Fr Scaria Nedumattathil of Calcutta province isContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Bellary, Aug 14, 2022: A youth was August 14 arrested for hoisting an Indian national flag with a “Jesus” sticker on the top of his house in Karnataka. The police in Bellary, a major town in the southern Indian state, arrested one Raghu, a resident ofContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Vaishali, Aug 12, 2022: The National Institute of Social Communications Research and Training (NISCORT) inaugurated a new staff residence and an additional floor to its present Academic Block at Vaishali, Ghaziabad in the NCR region. The Mass Media Communications College is run by the Catholic Bishops’Continue Reading
By Jessy Joseph New Delhi, Aug 11, 2022: The first national march for life heard a former Supreme Court judge urging bishops and Catholic religious congregations to lead the way to preserve life from conception to death. Justice Kurian Joseph, a former Supreme Court judge, suggested that the bishop ofContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Bhubaneswar, Aug 10, 2022: An ongoing prayer campaign for Truth and Justice for Kandhamal has been formulated into a 14-day special prayer ahead of the 14th anniversary of Kandhamal bloodshed and persecution. “Nobody can stop us from praying,” said journalist author Anto Akkara who has beenContinue Reading
By Irudhaya Jothi Bhalukpong, August 9, 2022: Women belonging to self-help groups in the northeastern Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh have joined a campaign to provide the national flag to every household in the country. As many as 1,200 Indian flags, or tricolor, were handed over to the extra assistantContinue Reading
