By Matters India Reporter Dimahasou, Nov 5, 2024: Various Church groups in Assam have demanded action against a rightwing Hindu leader who allegedly maligned Christians and tried to undermine religious harmony in the northeastern Indian state. On October 27, Surendra Kumar Jain, the international joint general secretary of the VishwaContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Ahmedabad, April 17, 2023: A Catholic nun has approached the Gujarat High Court for action against alleged derogatory remarks on nuns and the Pope during an event organized by a rightwing Hindu group. Sister Manjula Tuscano, a member of the Missionary Dominican Sisters of the Rosary,Continue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Ariyur, March 17, 2023: The police in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu have arrested the leader of a radical Hindu group for his alleged plan to extort money from a Catholic priest by raising sexual allegations. The arrested has been identified as Muthuvel, districtContinue Reading
By A C Michael Jhabua: People claiming to be members of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) say they plan to demolish churches in the Jhabua district of the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh on September 26. Auxiliary Bishop Paul Muniya of the Protestant Shalom Church in Jhabua, led aContinue Reading
Ranchi, July 26, 2020: Non-Christian Adivasis in Jharkhand, who worship Nature and are opposed to idol worship, seem upset at attempts by Hindu radical groups to collect soil from ‘Sarna Sthal’ for offerings at the proposed Ram Temple in Ayodhya on August 5. Following a meeting on July 24 ofContinue 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
By Matters India Reporter Kochi, Jan 15, 2020: The Syro-Malabar Church, the largest Christian denomination in Kerala, alleges that Islamic State has lured scores of Christian women from the southern Indian state to be used in terror activities. “Love jihad is a reality,” asserted the Church’s synod that on JanuaryContinue Reading
By John Dayal Bhubaneswar: The sound of the Kui dialect speaks of a decade’s pain in Kandhamal district, Odisha, Eastern India. The sound of the Kui dialect resonates in the tin-roofed Church as Father Manoj Nayak, social activists interprets Harsh Mander and the members of the Karwan-e-Mohabbat, a civil societyContinue Reading
Minority status VHP has called for the abolition of the minority status in the country altogether.Continue Reading
Navsari: Raking up the issue of conversions, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat Saturday said such attempts are unlikely to be successful in the country as the missionaries “do not have the strength”. Bhagwat pitched for Hindu unity and asked members of the community to come together irrespective of caste and language.Continue Reading
