By Jose Kavi New Delhi, Aug 23, 2023: The head of the Catholic Church in India on August 23 joined the nation’s leaders to applaud the Indian Space Research Organization for the success of the country’s third lunar exploration mission. On the same day, when Chandrayaan (moon craft)-3 successfully landedContinue Reading
By John Dayal New Delhi, Sept 2, 2022: The All India Catholic Union is happy lawyer and activist Teesta Setalvad has been given bail by the Supreme Court of India September 2, although she has had to surrender her passport. But common people may not understand if this is routineContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, Sept 2, 2022: Human rights activists have expressed relief after the Supreme Court granted interim bail to Teesta Setalvad, who has been in jail since June 25 for alleged conspiracy to “destabilize the government” after the 2002 Gujarat communal riots. “A big relief indeed,” saysContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, Sept 1, 2022: The Supreme Court has directed the federal to take a stand within three weeks on the issue of extending scheduled caste tag to Dalit Christians and Muslims and said that the day has come to take a call on issues havingContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, Dec 31, 2021: The largest association of India’s Catholic lay people on December 31 urged the federal government to check targeted hate and violence to make minority communities feel safe in the country. The All India Catholic Union (AICU) says 2021 saw a “surgeContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi: The All India Catholic Union (AICU) has reaffirmed solidarity with the country’s farmers and workers. The 101-year-old Asia’s biggest laity movement has many farmers and workers as members. “We therefore are naturally in solidarity with people of all faiths who are farmers, fishermen andContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, Sept 20, 2020: Several Catholic groups in India have expressed relief after the Vatican removed its controversial envoy from the country. Pope Francis Aug. 29 suddenly transferred Archbishop Giambattista Diquattro, apostolic nuncio to India and Nepal, to Brazil amid accusations of inaction against allegedly corruptContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, Sept 11, 2020: Church groups in India on September 11 joined activists, academics and politicians to mourn the death of Swami Agnivesh, who is considered the country’s most renowned secular and democratic sanyasi. The once professor of Kolkata’s St Xavier’s College was 80 atContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, Aug 19, 2020: Archbishop Felix Machado of Vasai, secretary general of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India, has urged Catholics to stand with the poor who are considered “useless objects” by the modern economic system. The poor have become ‘insignificant,’ a non-person, without anyContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, June 29, 2020: Several Christian groups in India have demanded an independent probe into the death of a father and his son in police custody in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. While the All India Catholic Union (AICU) seeks the probe by aContinue Reading