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Hope for Party, Challenge for Yechury There has always been scope for left of the centre voice in Indian democracy. In the early decades after independence, high-handedness of zamindars and plight of landless farm labourers made communist ideology relevant. The exploitation...
Karachi (Matters India)— Gunmen shot dead a Pakistani human rights activist on Friday after she hosted a talk on the politics of Baluchistan province, where security forces are fighting a separatist insurgency, police and associates said. Sabeen Mahmud was leaving...
The Hindu Mahasabha leader’s statement said Churches are no longer places of worship but factories for conversion. New Delhi: The Catholic bishops’ Conference of India has condemned the “highly provocative” statement of the Hindu Mahasabha general secretary Munna Kumar Shukla...
Bundi — Village justice in India- If a woman’s husband runs away with another man’s wife, then the abandoned woman must live with her husband, or pay him compensation! According to an AFP report relying on police sources, a village...
By Andrea Gagliarducci. Vatican City, Apr 22, 2015 / 12:54 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Amid continued violence by ISIS and other militant Islamist groups, the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue issued a declaration stressing that dialogue with Islam must be sought “now more...
The Christian community also warned of intensifying the stir if adequate security was not provided to them and Christian properties. Lucknow (UCAN): Christian, Muslim and the Sikh communities in Lucknow came together on Thursday to protest against the recent surge...
Kuala Lumpur (Matters India)— Malaysia’s government faced calls on Tuesday to take action against Muslim protesters who pressured a church to remove its cross, the latest example of rising Islamic intolerance that is fuelling religious tensions in the multi-faith country....
Bishop George Pallipparambil (center), looks on as a government official is presented with a sapling. Credit: Diocese of Miao. By Antonio Anup Gonsalves. Miao, India, Nov 5, 2013 / 04:27 am (CNA).- The Diocese of Miao, located in far north-east India,...
By Adelaide Mena. Washington D.C., Apr 22, 2015 / 04:25 am (CNA).- What does it mean to be truly pro-life? Amid debates over abortion and the death penalty, Catholic ecologists say that one issue is often overlooked in discussions involving human life...
(This image taken on April 30, 2014 shows a Christian church in the town of Oubei that Chinese authorities had begun demolishing on April 28, according to Internet postings, after a weeks-long stand-off between worshippers and the local government) ...
Laity all over India is up in arms(see Sathya Jwala, Almayasabdam and memorandums sent to CBCI and Pope, against Indian Bishops, especially SyroMalabar, for turning a blind eye to the rotten practice of pure blood promotion in Kottayam, Chicago & other places. It...
Pratyush Ranjan, in Hindustan Times, Apr 22, 2015 (Note: AAP was formed on Nov.22nd 2012. It attracted national attention and reached the zenith of glory with the Delhi elections. This victory also marked the outbreak of factional feuds and...
The Christian Community established a large chain of elementary schools throughout Kerala, under the supervision of the Seminary and its leaders, he said. Kottayam (UCAN): President Pranab Mukherjee Tuesday said the role of the Church in spreading education cannot be...
Rome (Matters India): An Indian Jesuit is among three priests appointed to lead the Pontifical Oriental Institute for an interim period after an unprecedented shakeup. Jesuit superior general Father Adolfo Nicolás Pachón appointed Father Sunny Thomas Kokkaravalayil as one of...
The court questioned the existing law which prescribes that Christian couples have to be separated for at least two years before filing for divorce. New Delhi(UCAN): The Supreme Court on Monday said the government should make necessary amendments in law...
Christians see a growing trend of harassment of minority-run institutions in Jharkhand state. New Delhi: Police have arrested 16 people after roughly 60 slogan-shouting Hindu hardliners barged into two Catholic schools in eastern India Tuesday. Christian leaders say the attack...
April 22, 2015, Times of India Editorial Like a long running saas bahu serial, the AAP break up has not been short of intrigue and histrionics. The expulsion of senior leaders Yogendra Yadav and Prashant Bhushan was inevitable once they...
By Elise Harris. Vatican City, Feb 7, 2015 / 12:47 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- One survivor of priestly sexual abuse says that despite a common perception that clerical celibacy can lead to sex abuse of minors, most perpetrators likely had issues before entering...
Guwahati (Story By: Abdul Gani – Matters India): Due to the social dogma and superstition, introducing family planning measures has been pretty difficult, especially among the rural Muslims for a long time. But Dr Ilias Ali, Professor of Surgery at the Guwahati...
No arrests yet as fear grows of further sectarian incidents. Police have failed to make an arrest four days after a church was attacked in the northern Indian city of Agra raising fears among the Christian community that religious extremists...