From The States

TAMIL NADU TOPS IN HATE CRIMES AGAINST CHRISTIANS

Tamil Nadu State in southern India recorded the highest incidents of anti- Christian violence during 2017, according to a study by the Evangelical Fellowship of India (EFI). The national alliance of evangelical Christians on February 16 released its annual report on hate crimes against Christians in India for 2017. The fellowship’s Religious Liberty Commission documented […]

SYRO MALABAR CATHOLICS IN DELHI GET NEW CEMETERY

Syro-Malabar diocese of Faridabad has opened a cemetery in its own private land after acquiring necessary civil permissions to use it as a Christian burial ground exclusively for its members. Archbishop Kuriakose Bharanikulangara of Faridabad dedicated the burial ground and blessed a new chapel attached to it on Feb. 17 at Sanjoepuram village in Faridabad […]

JESUIT PRIEST (IRUDAYA JOTHI) BAGS ‘SOCIAL ACTIVIST AWARD’

Jesuit Father Irudya Jothi, director of Udayani (awakening), bagged the “Social Activist Award” at a function in Mumbai, western India. “I am extremely happy to receive an award called Modi Making Of Developed India from the Economic Times Now group along with World Corporate Social Responsibility groups at Taj Land Mumbai,” Father Jothi told Matters […]

CHURCH ASSETS NOT PUBLIC PROPERTY, ASSERTS CARDINAL ALENCHERRY

Cardinal George Alencherry, head of the Syro-Malabar Church, says the Church assets cannot be considered as public property. The cardinal made this assertion on February 19 in the Kerala High Court. The court has sought the prelate’s explanation on a petition filed by a layman seeking a police probe into the controversial land deal in […]

RELIGIOUS MINORITIES UNHAPPY WITH INDIA’S FEDERAL BUDGET

The annual federal budget of India’s pro-Hindu government has disappointed religious minorities as much of it was mere juggling of words, according to civil society groups and opposition political parties. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said the US$719 million allocated to the Ministry of Minority Affairs is a 62% increase, but critics say funding for minority development schemes has come down. “The fact is that […]

INDIA’S NOTED NUN PAINTER DIES

Renowned Christian artist, Salesian Missionaries of Mary Immaculate Sister Claire died on February 11 in Bengaluru. She was 82. The Hindu convert to Catholicism was unwell for the last few days. The sister, who always wanted to be known as Sr Claire SMMI, had created more than 2,000 Christian paintings using water colour, enamel paints, posture colours and colour pens. She also drew more than 1,000 Christian and […]

COURT RULES AGAINST BAPTIST VILLAGE EXPELLING FOR FAITH DIFFERENCE

The Manipur High Court has struck down a village law of Sharkaphung/Leingangching that prevented inhabitants from any activity construed as ‘detrimental’ to Baptist Christianity. Delivering a judgment on a plea by four residents expelled in 2009 for adopting Roman Catholicism, the high court ruled that the village authority’s action was illegal and unconstitutional. The village authority did not have power to order banishment/expulsion of any villager, ruled acting Chief Justice N.Kotiswar Singh. […]

JESUIT SCHOLAR CALLS FOR DALIT CARDINAL

It is time the Church in India had a cardinal from the Dalit community, says a Jesuit scholar. It will be a great recognition for Dalits who form more than 60% of Christians in the country, says Father A.Maria Arul Raja, a professor of Religious Studies at the Jesuit Theology Centre in Chennai. The priest spoke to Matters India after addressing more than 200 bishops who […]

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OUTCRY AS RELIGIOUS LEADERS BECOME STATE MINISTERS IN INDIA

CBCI VISITS SUNDARGARH, ALLEGES CHURCH AND TEMPLE VANDALISATION A “PLANNED APPROACH”