By Matters India Reporter Kottarakkara, May 10, 2023: The murder of a 25-year-old woman doctor on duty allegedly by a drug addict has sent shock waves across the southern Indian state of Kerala. State Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan led the mourning for Vandana Das, a house surgeon who was killedContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kochi, April 6, 2023: The Kerala government has allowed Church groups and NGOs to resume religious and counseling services for prisoners in the jails of the southern Indian state. The government revoked the March 31 order of Kerala Jail Director General of Police Balram Kumar UpadhyayContinue Reading
By Thomas Scaria Mangaluru, Sept. 23, 2021: Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has debunked a bishop’s allegation that some groups are using fake love and narcotics to trap Catholic youth in the southern Indian state. The chief minister on September 22 presented data from the crime department to prove theContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kochi, Sept 18, 2021: Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan was among those mourning the death of K M Roy, a veteran journalist whose boldness had brought to limelight the murder of a Catholic nun. Roy died on September 18 at his residence in Kochi, Kerala. HeContinue Reading
Thiruvananthapuram: The Kerala government has allowed churches and other places of worship to open Sundays for services, but with just 15 people. This was decided at a meeting chaired by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan to review the situation of the coronavirus pandemic in the southern Indian state. The meeting alsoContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kochi: The Catholic Church has welcomed Kerala Chief Minister taking over the portfolio involving minorities’ welfare. Vijayan is the first chief minister to handle the department since its creation 13 years ago. The decision not to entrust the portfolio to ministers hailing from the minority communityContinue Reading
Kasargod: Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan says the Railways Minister Piyush Goyal’s statement on the recent attack on nuns has proved that religious minorities have no protection under the federal government again. While addressing a press conference in Kasargod, northern Kerala, March 30, Vijayan said Goyal’s claim that the nunsContinue Reading
Kochi: Federal Railway Minister Piyush Goyal on March 29 dismissed as wrong the allegations that two nuns belonging to a Kerala-based congregation were “attacked” during a train journey in Uttar Pradesh. Goyal accused Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan of “making false statements” on the issue. “There was no attack onContinue Reading
Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has flayed a pastoral letter read in some churches of the Quilon diocese against the southern Indian state’s Left Democratic Front government. The sanctity of the pastoral letters will be questioned by devotees, the chief minister said March 26. They (a section of churchContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi: The harassment of Catholic nuns in a train compartment allegedly by Hindu radicals has drawn condemnation from all sections of society in India. Two nuns and their two novices were taken off an express train and detained for questioning by railway police in Jhansi inContinue Reading