Category: National

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Top 10 Christian Persecuting States of 2014: Report

Bei Chatlai Beita – Christian Today.  Chhattisgarh has emerged as the "top rogue state" of India, where Christians are most persecuted in 2014, followed by Maharashtra – the "new Hindutva capital of India," Madhya Pradesh was third; the persecution was...

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What Happened to Vanvasis’ Kalyan? – Indian Currents, analysis

On 28 February 2015, Arun Jaitley, the Union Finance Minister presented the first full budget of the NDA government. However, there is nothing in the budget for the 104 million Adivasis (Scheduled Tribes) to cheer for. The indigenous inhabitants of...

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Catholic group opposes proposal for Uniform Civil Code

Catholic Church has a Canon Law, which is followed all over the world and regulates family issues like, divorce, marriage and inheritance, implemented by Ecclesiastical Courts. Mumbai (UCAN Report):  A Catholic group in Mumbai has opposed a proposal to implement...

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Bear witness to Christ in all situations, Christians told

(Story:Matters India) Agasaima — Archbishop of Goa and Daman Filipe Neri Ferrao exhorted the Catholic community to bear witness to Christ in all situations, through the staunch faith provided by their ancestors. He was addressing the community at the opening...

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Tripura’s first Catholic hospital opens

Story By: J. Pulinthanath (Mattters India).  Agartala — Health Care services in the northeastern state of Tripura got a much-needed impetus with the inauguration of St. Joseph Hospital at the capital city of Agartala on 19th March 2015. Shri Pabitra Kar, the...

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Kejri’s Doubtful Credentials?

You too Brutus, sounds Cat calls Kejri’s  Doubtful Credentials?            Come clean Kejri, Good-by to ominous silence, make up with towering founding members, nay invite them into inner circle to listen humbly, learn diligently, disagree agreeably, graciously, to concentrate constructively...

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‘Shameful attacks on Christians send wrong message’

Fr Muthu said fundamental groups are accusing Christians of "all sorts of things" and must be controlled as Christians are also Indians. New Delhi:  What stops a prime minister like Narendra Modi, who has a strong mandate, to put a...

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Prioritize protection of citizens over cows: Cardinal

Story By: mattersindia.com repoter Jagdalpur: Principals of some top Christians schools in Chhattisgarh state have been asked to furnish details about crosses and other religious articles displayed in their institutions. “This is another case of sheer harassment,” Fr Mathew Kunnel, coordinator...

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Christian schools asked to explain crosses, statutes

Story By: mattersindia.com repoter Jagdalpur: Principals of some top Christians schools in Chhattisgarh state have been asked to furnish details about crosses and other religious articles displayed in their institutions. “This is another case of sheer harassment,” Fr Mathew Kunnel, coordinator...

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Student nun manhandled in Mangaluru

Story By: Melwyn Pinto Mangaluru: A young nun was allegedly kidnapped and manhandled by four men on March 16. However, the nun managed to escape from the assailants, daijiworld.com reported. The men allegedly waylaid the nun doing her physiotherapy course in...

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Ryan school asking students, staff to join BJP gets notice

Manish Sisodia urged all the administrators of the city schools not to run any sort of political activities in the institutions. New Delhi: The Delhi government Wednesday issued a show cause notice and also ordered a probe into the management of...

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‘Ghar wapasi behind nun’s rape’

Story By: mattersindia.com Kolkata – The vice chairperson of the West Bengal Minorities Commission, Professor Maria Fernandes, visited Ranaghat on Tuesday where a convent school was ransacked, robbed and a 72-year-old nun raped last week, and said she suspected the assault...

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Hindu council defends attack on Haryana church

Published Story By: mattersindia.com Aggressively defending the demolition of a church in Haryana’s Hisar, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad on Monday asked whether Christians would allow construction of a Hanuman temple in the Vatican City. VHP joint general secretary Surendra Jain called...

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Christians rally in solidarity with raped nun

Community demands swift justice, but still no arrests. Kolkata:  Thousands of Christians rallied in Kolkata on Monday in a show of outrage over the recent gang-rape of an elderly nun. Some 4,000 Christians, including nuns and priests clutching lit candles,...

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Cardinal Cleemis rushes to meet violated nun

A 71-year old nun in the convent of Jesus and Mary was gang raped after alleged robbers broke into her residence Friday night. Cardinal Baselios Cleemis, president of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of India, is rushing to Kolkata tomorrow to...