By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, Aug 14, 2020: More than 1,500 people from around India are set to take part in the first online ‘National Bible Quiz’ The Youth Commission of the Conference of Catholic Bishops’ of India (CCBI) along with its allied organization—the Indian Catholic Youth Movement (ICYM)Continue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Patna, Aug 10, 2020: A webinar organized by a Jesuit a college and tribal organization in Patna, Bihar, has urged young people of India’s indigenous communities to seek an entrepreneurial career. “It is better to be a job creator than being an employment seeker,” Patrick Barla,Continue Reading
By Felix Anthony Miao, August 9, 2020: A Catholic bishop in Arunachal Pradesh on August 9 appealed young people in the northeastern Indian state to give up drug addiction and help create a better society and Church. “Our youth in most parts of the northeastern region, need to rise aboveContinue Reading
By Purushottam Nayak Kandhamal, August 6, 2020: History was created in the Kandhamal district of Odisha when a local youth cracked the Union Public Service Commission examination of 2019. Bibhuti Bhusan Nayak, son of a teacher, was ranked 819 in the exam when the result was declared on August 4.Continue Reading
New Delhi, July 30, 2020: As many as 89 percent of NGOs surveyed for a study have said that trafficking of both adults and children for labor will be “one of the biggest threats” in the post-lockdown period as household incomes of the most vulnerable deplete. The study, conducted byContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Bhubaneswar, July 29, 2020: Archbishop John Barwa of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar, head of the Catholic Church in Odisha, on July 29 congratulated a Catholic young woman from the eastern Indian state who has been named a member of the UN Secretary-General’s Youth Advisory Group. “Climate change and globalContinue Reading
By Lissy Maruthanakuzhy Panaji, July 26, 2020: A parish in Goa on found a new way to celebrate Grandparents’ Day on July 26, the feast of Saints Joachim and Anne, parent of the Blessed Virgin Mary. “Every year our catechism children with the help of the catechists used to celebrateContinue Reading
By Felix Anthony Guwahati, July 18, 2020: An online talent hunt organized by the Church in northeastern India has received an overwhelming response from the young people of the region, the organizers claim. The North East Regional Youth Council (NERYC), the regional youth wing of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference ofContinue Reading
Surat, July 12, 2020: A woman constable’s transfer for stopping a Gujarat legislator’s son and his two friends has triggered a massive controversy, with the episode being seen as the police buckling under political pressure. A probe has been ordered into the July 8 incident in Surat where Prakash, sonContinue Reading
Indore, July 9, 2020: Ordinarily parents provide their children a roof over their heads, but a footpath-dwelling couple in Indore has got a house thanks to the headline-grabbing success of their daughter in grade 10 exams. Bharti Khandekar, who lived with her parents and two younger brothers on a footpathContinue Reading