By Thomas Scaria Mangaluru, Sept 19, 2024: Catholic nuns have joined civil rights and women groups to demand urgent steps to prevent increasing cases of sexual violence against women in the country. “If a doctor could be raped and killed in a government hospital during duty hours, how unsafe isContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, Oct 25, 2023: The Vatican approval to the beatification process for the Kandhamal martyrs has brought great joy to Christians across India. “Feeling gratitude to Living God, the God of the suffering. Tears roll down,” Sister Meena Barwa, a survivor of the 2008 anti-Christian violenceContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, May 13, 2023: Frustrated at the Indian Church leaders’ “lukewarm response” to attacks against Christians, an advocacy group of progressive Catholic priests and nuns has urged them to become good shepherds “who do not run away when the wolf comes to attack the sheep.” AnContinue 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, July 21, 2022: Women have condemned the act of an exam center ordering girl students appearing for a national level exam to remove their undergarments. “Outrageous…how indignant to disrobe women,” said Present Sister Dorothy Fernandes, reacting to the incident in Kollam, a town inContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, June 6, 2022: Catholic women leaders in India say the death sentence awarded to a man who had raped and brutalized a woman in Mumbai would work as a deterrent. “The perpetrators must be taught a lesson and society at large must come to believeContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, May 11, 2022: Christian activists in India on May 11 recalled “the sacrifice” of Jesuit Father Stan Swamy while welcoming the Supreme Court order to keep the country’s sedition law on abeyance. Father Stan, as he was popularly known, died July 5, 2021, in aContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Patna, April 30, 2020: An NGO launched two decades ago by a Catholic nun in Patna to campaign for the shelter rights of poor is currently busy helping those affected by the nationwide lockdown. Presentation Sister Dorothy Fernandes, founder director of Aashray Abhiyan (AA, Campaigning forContinue Reading
