New Delhi: The National Commission for Scheduled Tribes (NCST) has made it mandatory for households employing scheduled tribes (ST) as domestic helps to register their details with their local police station and labour office to prevent trafficking of tribals and their exploitation. This is being done to ensure that adolescentsContinue Reading
Kochi: The Jacobite faction of the Malankara Church has said that there is a lack of clarity in last week’s Supreme Court verdict upholding the 1934 Constitution of the Church and denying the church group its right to offer prayers in the disputed churches. The church will approach the SupremeContinue Reading
Unconfirmed sources said the victims were Baptist Christians of Nyishi tribeContinue Reading
New Delhi: Illegal encroachments or unauthorised construction cannot be allowed anywhere in the national capital, whether it is a temple, a mosque or a church, the Delhi High Court has said. A bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C Hari Shankar also ordered that only the oldContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi: The Evangelical Fellowship of India (EFI) on July 10 condemned what it calls “dastardly attack” on Hindu pilgrims in Kashmir. “To attack people going to worship is to attack the very essence of what makes us human beings,” says a statement issued by theContinue Reading
12 pilgrims injured as terrorists opened fire on their bus on July 10 eveningContinue Reading
Amritsar diocese organized the 12-day bike rallyContinue Reading
Ranchi: The Jharkhand government is likely to move an anti-conversion bill in the upcoming monsoon session of the state assembly, which starts in August. According to sources, the state government has directed the officials to prepare the draft legislation. In Jharkhand, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Vishva Hindu ParishadContinue Reading
Kolencherry: Catholicos Baselios Marthoma Paulose II, head of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church (the Orthodox faction of the Malankara Church), led a Mass at the St. Peter’s and St. Paul’s church at Kolencherry on July 9. Bishops Mathews Mar Severios and Mathews Mar Theodosius were concelebrants. Church secretary Mathew OommenContinue Reading
PANAJI: More than 100 crosses and plaques at a cemetery in southern Goa were desecrated in the wee hours of Monday, July 10, police said. Police sources said that a CCTV camera installed at the Guardian Angel Catholic cemetery in Curchorem village, 45 km from here, was damaged before theContinue Reading