Matters India Reporter New Delhi: A day after police foiled the attempt of a right wing Hindu group to perform aarti of Bharat mata in the premises of a Catholic post graduate college in Sagar diocese in Madhya Pradesh state, a fresh ultimatum has been issued to do it againContinue Reading
Thiruvanathapuram: Scores were injured at Bonacaud, around 50 kms from here, in clashes between police and believers under Neyyatinkara Latin Catholic Diocese who were taking out a procession on Friday (January 5 ) reportedly to install a holy cross atop a hill in the forest area. The agitation turned violentContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Mumbai: Father Cajetan Menezes, who is director of the Bombay archdiocese’s Snehalaya Family Service Center, has been appointed as the interim executive secretary, Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences (FABC) Office of Laity and Family, and Women’s Desk. He succeeds Wendy M Louis who held the officeContinue Reading
Thiruvananthapuram: Eight activists including one nun has been injured after a protest march taken out by the Kerala Latin Catholic Women’s Association to the official residence of Forest Minister K. Raju turned unruly. The demonstration was organised in protest against the destruction of a wooden cross that had been found toContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Bhubaneswar: Human right activists have welcomed the Cardinal Oswald Gracias’ willingness to facilitate with Vatican and offer Canonical assistance for martyrdom process of Kandhamal victims. “As Cardinal points out that the process of martyrdom needs to start with the Archdiocese of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar, Odisha, in examining andContinue Reading
Mumbai: A fire that started at a rooftop pub hosting a birthday party spread rapidly through the building, killing 14 people, most of them women, shortly after midnight in a posh Mumbai locality, officials said Thursday. The fire, which also injured 21 people, started after 12.30 am in the “1Continue Reading
Thiruvanathapuram: Joseph Pulikunnel, a veteran Christian social reformer and a former faculty in economics and former member of the Kerala University Senate passed away on Thursday. He was 85. The last rites will take place at the houses premises at Bharananganam on Friday at 11 am. He was the directorContinue Reading
Vatican City: Lamenting “the winds of war” blowing around the world, Pope Francis in his traditional Christmas message on December 25 called for a two-state solution to find peace in the Middle East and prayed that confrontation can be overcome on the Korean Peninsula. The pope took particular aim atContinue Reading
Patnaik joined a Christmas program on December 23Continue Reading
Two members of the organizing committee were taken to the police station for questioningContinue Reading
