By Matters India Reporter Jhansi, Nov 16, 2024: Ten newborns were killed in a massive fire that broke out the neonatal ward in hospital at Jhansi, in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. The children died of burns and suffocation in the Rani Lakshmi Bai Medical College. The incidentContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Bhubaneswar, Nov 15, 2025: A four-member team that probed food poisoning deaths in an Odisha village blames the eastern Indian state’s negligent public distribution system among other reasons. “The families in Mandipanka village had not received ration for three months,” the team, commissioned by the OdishaContinue Reading
By Rani Punnasseril New Delhi, Nov. 10, 2024: A hospice in the Indian capital that has prepared nearly 7,500 people to face death with dignity celebrated its 30th anniversary with a variety of programs running over three days. On November 9, the final day of the Shanti Avedna Sadan (HomeContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, Nov 8, 2024: The Supreme Court has ruled that the salaries given to Catholic priests and nuns teaching in aided schools come under the income tax rules. Dismissing the appeals filed by 93 dioceses and congregations from Tamil Nadu and Kerala, a three-judge benchContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Dimahasou, Nov 5, 2024: Various Church groups in Assam have demanded action against a rightwing Hindu leader who allegedly maligned Christians and tried to undermine religious harmony in the northeastern Indian state. On October 27, Surendra Kumar Jain, the international joint general secretary of the VishwaContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, Nov 1, 2024: Catholic bishops of India joined Church and political leaders to mourn the death of the Indian head of the Jacobite Syrian Church. Metropolitan Baselios Thomas I died at a private hospital in Kochi, Kerala, in the evening of October 31, afterContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Hyderabad, Oct 31, 2024: More than 100 activists, environmentalists and academics from across India on October 31 called for a comprehensive review of a project that threatens to displace the poor living on the banks of the Musi River in the southern Indian state of Telangana.Continue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, Oct 23, 2024: Church leaders, theologians and grassroots workers in India have mourned the death of the father of the Liberation Theology who forced Christians to recognize the poor as agents and partners and not objects of charity. Dominican Father Gustavo Gutiérrez died October 22Continue Reading
By Kampan Chinnam Kohima, Oct. 21, 2024: A Catholic bishop has suggested making seminary formation more rigorous like the training given to civil service officers in India, as nearly half the priests now serving the Church seem to perform below average. Bishop James Thoppil of Kohima, chairman of the northeastContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Indore, Oct 20, 2024: The progressive group among India’s Catholic religious has resolved to live their prophetic call to address systemic, structural issues in society. For this, the members of Forum of Religious for Justice and Peace, who met October 18-20at Indore, central India, decided toContinue Reading
