New Delhi: More than 2,000 children in Delhi have lost either one or both parents to Covid-19, since the pandemic outbreak in March 2020, says a survey conducted by the Delhi Commission For Protection of Child Rights or DCPCR. As many as 67 children lost both their parents, the studyContinue Reading
Nirmala Carvalho Mumbai: Catholic leaders in India are demanding answers after the death of a Dalit Catholic woman in custody after she was accused of stealing money from a church. The Telangana High Court last week ordered a judicial inquiry into the death of the woman, allegedly due to policeContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Chennai: The Madras High Court has set July 8 as the deadline for India’s Catholic bishops and federal and state governments to respond to a petition alleging caste based discrimination within the Church in the country. The court on June 25 issued notices to the CatholicContinue Reading
By Jeffrey Gettleman, Emily Schmall, Suhasini Raj and Hari Kumar NEW DELHI: At 9:45 p.m., alarms blared across the intensive care unit of Jaipur Golden Hospital. Over two dozen patients on ventilators couldn’t breathe. Some flailed their arms and legs. Others cried for help, choking sounds coming from their throatsContinue Reading
New Delhi: A government cannot “abdicate” its duties to feed migrant workers, especially during a pandemic, merely because they did not have ration cards, the Supreme Court said in a judgment on June 29. “There is a large number of such migrants who do not possess any card. Their aboveContinue Reading
By Felix Anthony Neotan: A farmer in Arunachal Pradesh is on a special mission: Promote the writing system of his tribal dialect. “My aim is to preserve our Tangsa language, which according to a recent study is marked as an endangered language,” says Wanglung Mossang, a villager in Changlang districtContinue Reading
By Thomas Scaria Mangaluru: A group of students has used “social media” to reach out to thousands of people with awareness on the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking. The students joined a “100-program Challenge” launched June 26 by Ecolink Institute of Well-being, a Mangaluru-based NGO involved inContinue Reading
Ruksin: Family members and well-wishers have observed the first death anniversary of a pioneer of Christianity in the Adi belt of the eastern Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh. Yayi Topa Taying, a resident of Ngorlung village in Ruksin circle of East Siang district, had also assisted the British soldiers duringContinue Reading
By Purushottam Nayak Bhubaneswar: The all-pass for Odisha’s tenth graders have disappointed several students, says a Church official in the eastern Indian state. “The future of students has been very much affected, especially those who scored only D and E grades,” said Father Vjay Kumar Ekka, the regional secretary ofContinue Reading
A Christian street preacher arrested while preaching the Gospel has won his case against a police department that admitted liability in a lawsuit, agreeing to pay $4,500 (£3,250) in damages in addition to his legal costs for wrongful arrest, false imprisonment and violating his human rights. A Liverpool County CourtContinue Reading