By Matters India Reporter Mumbai, Feb 28, 2025: The Mumbai Press Club joined media persons to mourn the death of Ashley D’Mello, a stalwart journalist who covered a wide spectrum of issues during a career spanned over four decades. D’Mello died after a brief illness in the evening of FebruaryContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, March 11, 2024: Nirmala Carvalho, a veteran journalist who contributes regularly to Church publications in India and overseas, has won the prestigious Golden Pen Award for excellence in journalism, given by The Examiner, a 175-year-old weekly published from Mumbai. Cardinal Oswald Gracias, Archbishop of Bombay,Continue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, July 21, 2023: Christians, especially women, have joined nationwide condemnation of parading two women naked and gangraping them in the northeastern Indian state of Manipur where ethnic violence has raged for the past 80 days. A viral video of 26-minutes shows men sexually attacking womenContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, Jan 20, 2022: Support and sympathy for a Catholic nun continue to pour in even a week after a court in Kerala dismissed her case against a bishop. Additional District and Sessions Court Judge G. Gopakumar on January 14 acquitted Bishop Franco Mulakkal ofContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, Nov 19, 2021: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s surprise announcement November 19 to repeal the controversial farm laws was welcomed with caution by farmers and their supporters across India. Samyukta Kisan Morcha (Joint Farmers’ Force), a coalition of more than 40 farmers’ unions formed inContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, Nov 5, 2021: Catholics in India, especially women religious, have applauded Pope Francis for appointing an Italian nun to a key Vatican post. They now urge the Church leaders in India to follow the Pope’s example to bring gender equality. The Pope on November 4Continue Reading
