New Delhi: The apex body of Roman Catholic Church in India Wednesday appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to “curb the spread of hatred by CM Raghubar Das” a month after the Jharkhand government passed a bill restricting religious conversions on August 12. In his strongly worded letter, Catholic BishopsContinue Reading

Matters India Reporter New Delhi: Salesian priest Tom Uzhunnalil has been freed by the Islamic militants after being in captivity for 18 months. External Affairs Minister, Sushma Swaraj, tweetted on Sept. 12 to announce the news. “I am happy to inform that Father Tom Uzhunnalil has been rescued,” she tweetedContinue Reading

Kottayam: Two students of Amal Jyothi College of Engineering at Kanjirapally here were killed and around 20 others injured when a bus they were travelling in overturned at Magadi in Karnataka’s Chikkamagalurudistrict on Friday night. The deceased have been identified as Merin Sebastian and Irene Maria George. Three of the injured are critical, the college PROContinue Reading

Mattersindia Reporter Shillong: The BJP has appointed newly made tourism minister from Kerala, Alphons Kannanthanam, for the upcoming Meghalaya polls, September 6. Kannanthanam was a seminarian of late Bishop Abraham Alangimattathil of Kohima-Imphal diocese. He was a student of Philosophy at the Christ the King College Shillong early 1970. SpeakingContinue Reading

New Delhi: The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI) has condemned “the dastardly, brutal and cowardly” murder of the senior journalist, Gauri Lankesh, editor of the Kannada weekly, Lankesh Patrike on September 5 in Bengaluru. “We salute her for the courage with which she wrote, the conviction with which sheContinue Reading