By Matters India Reporter New Delhi: John Dayal, a veteran journalist and leading human rights activist, has been invited in a special way to the executive committee of the Editors Guild of India. The guild was created in 1978 in the post-emergency period, to protect the freedom of the pressContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, April 22. 2020: A group of activists, academics, and others on April 22 condemned the Delhi police for falsely implicating “innocent students” in the Delhi riot cases. The police have booked them under “the draconian Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA),” says a press statementContinue Reading
By John Dayal New Delhi, March 27, 2020: Some immediate measures are needed to help informal workers and destitute poor to survive the 21-day lockdown in the wake of COVID-19 in India. These have been developed in consultation with economists and social movements. Enough measures are in place for theContinue Reading
By John Dayal New Delhi, Jan 15, 2020: It will be 21 years on January 21 since Graham Stuart Staines, an Australian missionary working with the lepers of Orissa, was burnt to death with his young sons Timothy and Philips. They were sleeping in their jeep parked in a forestContinue Reading
New Delhi, June 30, 2019: A Catholic family in Jharkhand is awaiting justice for a tribal man, who was lynched by cow vigilantes in the eastern Indian state nearly two years ago, a lay leader says. The death of Ramesh Minj “did not enter the discourse of persecution of Christians,”Continue Reading
By John Dayal New Delhi, Nov. 21, 2018: The United Christian Action’s (UCA) Silver Jubilee Seminar, following its annual general meeting at the William Carey Hall of Celebration at Nisheman School, Delhi, on November 17 saw senior Church leaders, institution heads and activists listen to law experts and others callContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, Nov. 18, 2018: A group of Church leaders at a seminar in Delhi stressed promotion of gender justice in Church institutions. United Christian Action (UCA) organized the seminar on workplaces for women on November 17 at Nishman School, Delhi. Speakers included advocates Anupama BhatContinue Reading
There has been little effort at rebuilding livesContinue Reading
By John Dayal We as a community must demand that Franco Mulakkal, the former bishop of the Jalandhar Catholic diocese, in the northwestern Punjab state, [suspended, or how do we describe his present canonical position], be tried in a fast track court on the charges of multiple rapes of aContinue Reading
Their recognition will strengthen the faith of the people of India, especially at a time like we are passing throughContinue Reading