Father Cedric Prakash of the Jesuit Gujarat Province has just returned from the Middle East after a three-year stint with the Jesuit Refugee Service there. Fr Cedric is an internationally acclaimed human rights and peace activist and recipient of several awards including the ‘Legion of Honour’ from the President ofContinue Reading
By Nirmala Carvalho Mumbai, Dec. 21, 2018: As he completes 69 years as a Catholic priest on December 21, Monsignor Nereus Rodrigues remains humble and grateful. “I am very grateful to our Lord Jesus Christ who called me to serve Him in the priesthood and His Grace has kept meContinue Reading
By Apurva Viswanath New Delhi, Dec. 2, 2018: Justice Joseph, the controversial but ‘compassionate’ judge who has retired from the India’s Supreme Court, was seen to have held views in line with the Church — particularly on abortion and divorce. “If someone is to take a vote on who isContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter, New Delhi, November 20, 2018: Presentation Sister Dorothy Fernandes is among 70 people who will be honoured for promoting democratic and republic characteristics of the Indian Constitution. The award titled “Neelkanth Samman” will be presented on November 26, the Constitution Day, at Mavlankar Hall in NewContinue Reading
Coimbatore , Nov. 17, 2018: A bus conductor from Coimbatore is setting a great example by planting trees. M Yoganathan can now proudly say many living creatures have found life because of him. Apart from his busy conductor work, he spares time to plant trees. He has planted 300,000 treesContinue Reading
By Santosh Digal Te Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI) and the National Council of Churches in India (NCCI) will jointly celebrate Dalit Liberation Sunday on November 11. Santosh Digal of Matters India talked to Father Devasagayaraj M Zackarias, Secretary to CBCI Office for Dalits and Backward Classes to findContinue Reading
Mumbai, Nov. 4, 2018: A year shy of retiring, when he turns 75, Father Jude Botelho, parish priest of the Church of Our Lady of Glory, Byculla, popularly known as Gloria Church, can’t help but look back at the last four years as a lesson in art history. Back inContinue Reading
New Delhi: A class 7 student in Hyderabad is giving professors a run for their money as he is giving “design and drafting” lessons to civil, mechanical and electrical engineering students. The child prodigy, who learns designing on the internet, teaches for free to save the engineers from doing “oddContinue Reading
By Santosh Digal Thiruvananthapuram, Oct. 27, 2018: The web portal, countercurrents.org, has been awarded this year’s Solidarity Media Award initiated by Solidarity Youth Movement. Countercurrents.org received this special award for its courageous interventions in upholding Human Rights and Citizen’s Rights’. Countercurrents editor Binu Mathew will receive the award on OctoberContinue Reading
By Ria Das Prague, Oct. 25: A girl from Haryana has won the Miss Deaf Asia 2018 title at an international pageant held recently in Prague, Czech Republic. Nishtha Dudeja has thus become the first Indian to clinch a title at the Miss Deaf World Pageant. She triumphed against fromContinue Reading
