Matters India Reporter New Delhi, March 28, 2024: A top court in a central Indian state on March 28 granted bail to a Catholic nun accusing of abetting the suicide of a school girl. The Bilaspur high court, the top court in Chhattisgarh state, granted bail to Carmelite Sister Mercy,Continue Reading
Matters India Reporter New Delhi, January 5, 2023: Police arrested 10 persons in connection with the vandalism in a Catholic Church and subsequent violence in Chhattisgarh state in Central India. The police tightened security in and around the violence hit Sacred Heart Church in the heart of Narayanpur district headquartersContinue Reading
By Varghese Alengaden Indore, June 18, 2022: Two recent articles speak of how Hindutva forces easily trap bishops, priests and nuns by exploiting their ignorance. Jesuit Father Vincent Perappaden wrote about the conclave organized by the BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party) Minority Morcha in Kerala for Catholic priests and nuns andContinue Reading
Bastar: The Chhattisgarh government has been funding tribal communities to develop and maintain their traditional places of worship, known as Devgudis, so that they aren’t lured by anyone to convert to another religion, said state industry minister Kawasi Lakma on Aug. 10. Lakma, a senior Congress leader from Bastar, whichContinue Reading
New Delhi: The Delhi Police on Aug 9 said they registered a first information report (FIR) in connection with a video in which some people are seen raising communal and inflammatory slogans near Jantar Mantar in central Delhi on Aug. 8. The video was circulated on social media with allegationsContinue Reading
By Nikhila Henry Kochi: What does Moran Mor Ignatius Aphrem II, Patriarch of the Orthodox Church in Antioch of Syria, have to do with Assembly elections in Kerala? A lot. In fact, it is a century old dispute about the Patriarch’s authority which is now driving two Christian factions –Continue Reading
TEZPUR: Generations of her ancestors have lived the same life that Arti Munda now lives in a tea estate in Assam — earning meagre wages, denied the legal status of a Scheduled Tribe (ST) despite being a tribal, landless, malnourished, and dying young. She earns ₹167 for an eight-hour workContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi: The release of an octogenarian Jesuit activist from jail is among several issues that a Catholic weekly wants the Church leaders in Kerala to raise with the BJP leaders who now woo the Christians in the southern Indian state. “We should loudly ask theContinue Reading
New Delhi: Bollywood once again has fallen into the cross hairs of India’s Hindu nationalist ruling party — and major Western streaming services like Amazon and Netflix increasingly find themselves caught in the middle. Two separate criminal complaints were filed with the police over the weekend against the makers ofContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kochi: The Bharatiya Janata Party has fielded 500 Christian and 112 Muslim candidates for the local body elections in Kerala. If the BJP manages to win at least municipal corporations in these elections, it would brighten the party’s chances in the Kerala assembly elections scheduled toContinue Reading
