Category: National

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Historic church in Delhi turns 150

Dating back to 1862, the building, then a Protestant garrison church, was consecrated by the Bishop of Calcutta in 1866. Posted on March 14, 2016, 10:01 PM (UCAN) Gurgaon: In probably the leafiest and quietest corner of Old Gurgaon, a little...

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70% Indians support abortion: Study

 Published on: 11:16 pm, March 14, 2016 Story By: mattersindia.com Mumbai: Even as the issue of abortion remains a sensitive one, a latest global report showed that 70 per cent respondents in India support abortion and said it should be permitted under any...

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Bishops ask to include women in feet washing ceremony

The new regulation puts no restrictions on the number of people selected, bust asks to select a small group of the faithful. Posted in UCAN on March 14, 2016, 8:13 AM New Delhi: Women can be included in the feet washing...

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Bishop, two others face molestation charge 

Published on: 11:16 pm, March 11, 2016 Story By: Matters India Reporter Bhopal: Police in a central Indian state have registered a case of molestation against Bishop and two others following complaint from a professor who is teaching in a Church-run institute for...

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Marian grotto attacked in Pune

Burnt books, a packet of bindis, an earthen pot used for Hindu funerals and a tulsi pot were also found nearby. Posted on March 10, 2016, 8:41 AM  Pune (UCAN): In another attack on Christian community, unidentified people early Wednesday brunt a...

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Evaluating Modi  Government? Cow waving the tricolour

Paranjoy Guha Thakurta,  in Asuab Age, Mar 09, 2016                          (Note: The writer Paranjoy is an educator and commentator. Looking at Modiji as the flag bearer of  the BJP  and  the PM of India one finds a double persona always...

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Women teachers jailed, principal faces arrest in Chhattisgarh 

Published on: 5:43 pm, March 8, 2016 Story By: Mattersindia.com reporter Raipur: Christians in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh live under fear after a spate of attacks targeting them and their institutions. “The Christian community lives under constant fear and we do...

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What is it all a bout? MediCar Sersvice in Kochi

Published in New Indian Express, City, March 8/16                          (Note: This is a  recent development in  Health care service located in Tripunithura, Ernakulam, Kochi. What is it all about? When you need a medical service you  go either  to  a doctor...

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US Religious Commission denied visa for India

USCIRF is an independent, bipartisan US federal government commission. Posted on March 4, 2016, 3:37 PM New Delhi: India has denied visa to members of a US commission on religious freedom who wanted to discuss and assess "deteriorating" religious freedom conditions...

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  Fall of Kerala State – Once a World Model State

Its VIPs Face the Fury of a Woman Scorned:  By T J S George, in New Indian Express, 14/2/16                               (Note: Better late than never. That is an explanation for this delayed  publication. Still why publish? 1. I myself feel terribly...

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Website to redress injustice to Christians in Kandhamal

An estimated 101 Christians were killed and several women including a Catholic nun were gang raped. UCAN: Posted on February 29, 2016, 6:51 PM. Kandhamal:  A website has been launched to focus attention on the failure of India’s federal and Odisha...

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Meerut no more just Sardhana Church for foreign tourists

Till 2009, the church accounted for over half of the total foreign tourists coming in the city. Now that number has dropped to less than 20%. Posted on February 26, 2016, 6:04 PM (UCAN) Meerut: The number of foreign tourists coming to...

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U.S. lawmakers urge Modi to take action on religious violence 

Published on: 8:55 pm, February 27, 2016 Story By: Mattersindia.com Eight U.S. Senators and 26 members of the U.S. House of Representatives have raised “grave concerns about the increasing intolerance and violence experienced by members of…religious minority communities,” in a letter to Prime...

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Mother Mary shrine in Baroda binds people of all faiths

The statue of Mary installed at Vadodara was made by Spanish sculptor Senor Cuesta in the early 1930s. Posted in UCAN on February 26, 2016, 6:19 PM Vadodara: Thousands of people, including non-Christians, throng the shrine of Mother Mary in the city...

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Shrine in Udupi introduces new system for alms-giving

The annual feast this year was held from Jan 24 to 29. UCAN – Posted on February 24, 2016, 5:11 PM Udupi: The St. Lawrence Shrine at Attur village near Karkala in Udupi district introduced a new system to distribute alms to...

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Base quotas primarily on economic criteria

Editorial   in The Asian Age, Feb 21, 2016                         (Note: The time may have come to revisit eligibility rules for reservations so that an individual’s economic condition is given significant weight in any calculation. Compare this views Asian Age with that...