Rome: Hypocrites are afraid of the truth, fearful of who they really are and incapable of truly loving, Pope Francis said during his weekly general audience. What hypocrites do “is like putting makeup on your soul, like putting makeup on your behavior” and hiding the truth, the pope said Aug.Continue Reading
Colombo, Catholics in Sri Lanka wore black and hoisted black flags on Aug. 21 to show their indignation over what they see as the government’s failure to respond adequately the 2019 Easter Sunday attack on churches. Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith of Colombo has been urging the government to name those behindContinue Reading
Adilabad: The tribal rights organisation, Tudum Debba, staged a dharna demanding the government to introduce Girijana Bandhu on the lines of the Dalit Bandhu scheme, in front of the Collectorate in Adilabad on Aug. 23. Hundreds of tribals belonging to different parts of the district gathered in front of theContinue Reading
New Delhi: As Taliban seized control of Afghanistan, one of the country’s most popular film personalities Sahraa Karimi on August 22 said the current situation is “horrible” and the need of the hour is to document what’s happening in the region for the world to witness these testing times. TheContinue Reading
By Purushottam Nayak Kandhamal: The death of wife of one of the Kandhamal’s “Seven Innocents” brought gloom to the survivors of the 2008 anti-Christian violence and their supporters. Gumili, wife of Durjo Sunamajhi, one of the seven people accused of murdering a Hindu ascetic, died August 19 in a hospitalContinue Reading
New Delhi: Taking note of a plea by some fishermen seeking compensation, the Supreme Court Aug. 19 directed the Kerala High Court not to disburse any amount from ₹ 2 crore earmarked for the owner of fishing boat ”St Antony” in which two fishermen were killed by Italian marines inContinue Reading
Mumbai: Late tribal rights activist father Stan Swamy’s lawyer has written to the Bombay High Court urging it to “clear his name and reputation” in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case. Swamy, a Jesuit priest-turned-activist, died in hospital on July 5, 2021. Senior counsel Mihir Desai earlier this week wrote aContinue Reading
The Gujarat High Court (HC), in an interim order on Aug. 19, stayed some sections pertaining to interfaith marriages of the newly enacted anti-conversion law in the State. A division bench of the court stayed the implementation of several sections of the Gujarat Freedom of Religion (Amendment) Act, 2021. TheContinue Reading
By Vivek Joseph Hyderabad: A nationwide network of workers organizations on August 19 launched helpline to provide legal aid and redressal for workers in the unorganized-sector in Hyderabad and four other cities in India. The Hyderabad launch took place at the opening of the Telangana chapter of Working People’s CharterContinue Reading
New Delhi: Om Prakash Chautala, former Haryana chief minister, has taken the tenth grade English exam. The 86-year-old politician sat for the exam on August 18 at Arya Kanya Senior Secondary School in Sirsa, a town in the northern Indian state, some 265 km northwest of New Delhi. Chautala hadContinue Reading
