By Jose Kavi New Delhi, May 26, 2922: Christians working for women’s empowerment in India have welcomed a Supreme Court order recognizing sex work as a profession. At the same time a Catholic moral theologian says crime is different from sin and something decriminalized does not stop being a sin.Continue Reading
By Media Matters Reporter Varanasi, May 23, 2022: Peace activists from various religions have launched a series of interreligious prayer services at different parts of Varanasi as sectarian tension over the Gyan Vapi mosque controversy gripped Hinduism’s most sacred city. “These prayers are taken from ten different religious sources namelyContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, May 23, 2022: Father Subhash Anand, a renowned philosophy professor who challenged Catholics in India to become Christ’s authentic disciples, died of a massive heart attack May 23 in Udaipur, Rajasthan. He was 78. Bishop Devprasad Ganawa of Udaipur has informed that the funeral beginsContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, May 20, 2022: Church people in India working among migrants have expressed shock and dismay at the murder of a priest who served migrants and refugees in Mexico. “It was shocking news to know that Fr. Jose Guadalupe Rivas was found dead after been missingContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, May 19, 2022: Indian Catholics, both lay people and religious, have welcomed Pope Francis ushering in equality and fraternity in religious congregations that have priests and brothers as members. “It is not a small technical or legal change but a profound shift with enormous theologicalContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, May 18, 2022: As many as five people have found a new lease in life after the parents donated their six year-old daughter’s organs. Roli Prajapati was shot dead by unidentified assailants in Noida, in western Uttar Pradesh. She was rushed to the hospital,Continue Reading
By Thomas Scaria Bengaluru, May 17, 2022: The Karnataka government has passed an ordinance to abolish religious conversions in the southern Indian state ignoring resistance from the Catholic Church and other groups. Karnataka Governor Thaawar Chand Gehlot ordinance on May 17 signed the ordinance a day after a Catholic delegationContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, May 13, 2022: At least 27 people were killed and scores wounded May 13 when a massive fire broke out in a commercial building in West Delhi. Police said the fire engulfed a four-story building near the Mundka Metro station. The fire department hasContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, May 11, 2022: Christian activists in India on May 11 recalled “the sacrifice” of Jesuit Father Stan Swamy while welcoming the Supreme Court order to keep the country’s sedition law on abeyance. Father Stan, as he was popularly known, died July 5, 2021, in aContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Chennai, May 9, 2022: Christians in Tamil Nadu have expressed surprise that the state’s high court has admitted a public interest litigation to stop forcible conversion of students in schools. The bench of Justices R. Madhavan and S. Ananthi of the Madras High Court on MayContinue Reading