Category: National

Editorial, in the Hindu, February 24, 2016                    (Note: Turbulent backdrop of unrest indeed is what one sees every where in India today from Kashmir to Kanyakumari, East cost to West coast. Politics in India has become   really a very...

(In the pic: Indian Aam Admi Party activists hold posters during a rally against the gang rape and murder of a teenager in Kolkata on Jan. 5, 2014. Soni Sori, a party member and tribal activist, had a harmful chemical...

The church also houses an educational complex, however, the suspects did not go there. UCAN:  on February 19, 2016, 8:25 AM Pune: Three men broke into a church in Pune and decamped with two donation boxes containing 25,000 rupees. After an...

Indian government overreacting to student protests, critics say. New Delh (UCAN) Posted on February 19, 2016, 9:25 PM: (In the pic: The Indian national flag is waved at a protest against the arrest of an Indian student for sedition in New Delhi...

By The New Indian Express,17th February 2016 06 (Note:  Doctor assiseted death or euthenasia is a very sensitive issue especially among the so-called religious and conservatives socities. A very strong argumeng brought against is that it will be misused both in...

Move to include religious minority within nationalist RSS organization met with a resounding 'no'. New Delhi (UCAN): Christian leaders in India have rejected proposals from a Hindu nationalist group to form a separate forum for Christians. Over 200 Christian leaders from...

Farmers commit suicide because of successive crop loss. Bhopal: (UCAN) A group of Church experts in India has begun attempts to bring together farmers aiming to help them face the worsening agrarian crisis in the country, which forces some even to...

Decision on confessed sex offender made after Vatican consultations, Ootacamund prelate says.  Kochi (UCAN): A Catholic bishop in southern India has lifted the suspension of a priest convicted last year of sexually abusing a 16-year-old girl in the United States. The...

Mumbai (Matters India): The Archdiocese of Bombay has requested prayers for its archbishop, Cardinal Oswald Gracias, who is recuperating from a surgery to remove a cyst. Cardinal Gracias, president of the Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences and one of the...

Story – Matters India: Two Capuchin Franciscan friars were ordained on February 8 by His Exc. Mgr John Barwa in the district of Kandhamal, which had seen horrific anti-Christian violence in 2008. “A gift and a blessing, in the Year...

By 2050, about 70% of the population will be living in cities and India is no exception This post originally appeared in  Relocating from rural to urban areas in search of better jobs and striding towards better fortune is a...

Dalits continue to be treated as sub-human and deprived of rights enjoyed by others. Pune (UCAN): A movement of Christian women in India has urged politicians and social leaders to work to end caste politics and discrimination, which they said continue to...

Bhubaneswar (Story By: Santosh Digal): The survivors of the 2008 anti-Christian violence in Kandhamal, Odisha, are meeting for the first time to share their struggles to secure justice and dignity. The Archdiocese of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar is convening the meeting on Feb 9...

Democracy-literacy Near alied                         (Note: If the national literacy rate is still at its rock bottom in Indian democracy, it is due to the criminal neglect of the powers that be both at the Centre and States, except of course...

Initiative helps farmers reclaim abandoned crops, pool information and resources. Bhopal: (UCAN) Some 750 small-scale farmers gathered in India's Madhya Pradesh state Feb. 3 to exhibit their produce and share knowledge as part of an initiative that a church agency spearheads...

Conflicting political, constitutional, ideological imperatives will continue to generate paradoxes Ashutosh Varshney (Indian Express – February 5, 2016) (Pic:- Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressing a public meeting in Coimbatore on Tuesday – PTI ) (Note: Democracy is a talking shop. To survive...

Jamshedpur (Matters India): Hurdles in land acquisition is proving to be the bane of the Roman Catholic Church keen to set up a state-of-the-art engineering and a law college for Jharkhand. Cardinal Telesphore P. Toppo, who was in Jamshedpur on...

 Hindu man beaten, paraded on donkey after seeking help for son at a Christian hospital.  Jalaun (UCAN): Police in northern India have arrested 20 people from a hard-line Hindu group for assaulting and parading a young man on a donkey accusing...

      The case against women entering places of worship has to be examined from the perspective of patriarchy that has kept all powers with men… From abolishing Sati and dowry to laws against sexual abuse, it’s time for another old...

Suspected Bajrang Dal members assaulted Awadhesh Kumar, tonsured him and made him sit on donkey. Lucknow: (UCAN) Suspected Bajrang Dal activists tonsured the head of a youth in Jalaun district of Uttar Pradesh and paraded him on a donkey for four...