Category: National

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Renovation of historic West Bengal church nearly complete

The church will also have new halls for pilgrims to rest, an auditorium, a food court and souvenir shops. India (UCAN):Visitors to the 416-year-old Bandel Church in Hooghly district of West Bengal will be in for a very pleasant surprise...

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Climate Change Meet in Paris – It’s a deal

(in the pic: Unlike the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, the Paris accord does not set specific legally binding requirements on emissions cuts for developed nations.)  Despite compromises, Paris Agreement on climate action is a historic achievement. true Countries must stay to...

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Christians upset as Christmas Day made working holiday again

Mumbai (Matters India): Christians in Maharashtra seem upset that the western Indian state government plans to make Christmas a “working holiday.” A circular issued by the general administration department of the state says the government has decided to celebrate Christmas...

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Bishop champions poor blinded by botched eye operation

Callous treatment by government led to tragedy for 40 people undergoing free cataract removal. Bhopal (UCAN): A Catholic bishop in central India's Madhya Pradesh state has charged local authorities with callousness toward the poor after 40 people lost their eyesight undergoing a...

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PM plans Christmas party ‘drop-in’

New Delhi (Matters India): Narendra Modi, who campaigned in the Lok Sabha election on a plank for progress but has since been battered by the Bihar Assembly poll verdict and faces western disapproval of religious intolerance, is seeking to resurrect...

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Mumbai Church to deal with ‘benchmark’ clergy abuse case

Case will test new norms and procedures promulgated by Indian bishops' conference.  Kochi: (UCAN) A Catholic priest has been arrested for allegedly sodomizing a 13-year old boy in Bombay Archdiocese. Mumbai police arrested Father Lawrence Johnson, 51, accused of abusing the...

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Kerala priest accused of child abuse surrenders

He went absconding in April this year following a complaint filed by a 14-year-old girl's parent. Kochi: UCAN A catholic priest in Kerala, who was on the run for nearly eight moths after police booked him for raping a minor girl,...

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Valley Christians prefer keeping low profile

Srinagar (Matters India): The minuscule Christian community living in the Kashmir valley is leading a quiet life and feeling neglected. Even as the 2011 census stated that the population of Christians had witnessed an increase of around 75 percent from 2001...

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Third woman to join Mother Teresa dies

Story By: C M Paul  (Matters India) Kolkata  — Sr. Gertrude MC, the third woman to join Mother Teresa in starting the Missionaries of Charity passed away Sunday morning 5.30 am. “Funeral Mass is scheduled to be held at 3 pm today, Sunday...

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Church joins chorus of calls for Bhopal tragedy study

In the pic: The dumping ground of the Union Carbide gas plant where the company dumped chemical waste after the 1984 disaster, with the plant seen in the distance in Bhopal, India. (arindambanerjee / Shutterstock.com) Thirty years later, residents suffer...

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AAP MLAs highest paid legislators after Assam

                                            Himanshi Dhawan, in Times of India,  Dec 5, 2015, – Delhi MLAs gift themselves 400% salary hike.                  (Note:  If this report in the Times of India is correct, the urgent need of the hour is  to bring about a...

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Man-made disaster: Look how Chennai built its way to floods

In the pic: Chennai in 2000 to Chennai in 2015. Google Earth shows us what went wrong and resulted in the Chennai floods. Read the full story in India Today : http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/chennai-floods-man-made-disaster-building-construction/1/537094.html If there are trees, plants and open areas around,...

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Four more priests named in rector murder case

Father Thomas, Rector of St Peter’s Pontifical Seminary, Malleswaram, was murdered on March 31, 2013. Posted on December 2, 2015, 7:05 PM Bengaluru: (UCAN.IN) Bangalore police have filed an additional charge sheet naming seven people, including four more priests of Bangalore...

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Caritas rushes emergency aid to flood-ravaged Tamil Nadu

New Delhi (Matters India): Caritas India, the aid agency of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India, has dispatched some 2.5 million rupees as emergency fund to Tamil Nadu, a southern Indian state battered by the century’s worst floods. Amrit Sangma,...

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Catholic nun found dead in a well at convent in Kerala

Police identified the victim as Stella Maria, 35, a member of the Sacred Heart convent at Uluppuni near Vagamon. A Catholic nun was found dead in a well at her convent in Kerala’s Idukki district on Tuesday morning. Police identified...

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The Twin Challenges – Indian Currrents’ Editorial

Dr. Suresh Mathew Climate change and pollution — two issues people across the world dread to think. Both are subjects of global concern which is evident from the fact that over 120 heads of States have confirmed their participation at...