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Indian guru’s aide accuses medical chief of Christian conspiracy

A day after the Indian Medical Association (IMA) took yoga guru Baba Ramdev to task for remarks criticizing allopathy, his aide Acharya Balkrishna claimed that IMA president Johnrose Jayalal was conspiring to convert the country to Christianity. Last week Ramdev in a video clip had said that allopathy — the treatment of disease by drugs […]

India’s top court demands help for migrant workers

India’s Supreme Court has intervened for the third time in a year after it learned of the plight of migrant workers during the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic. The apex court said on May 24 that its main concern is that benefits and schemes meant for migrant workers must reach them. The court also […]

Land dispute hits Christian cemetery in northern India

A land dispute in Ghaziabad district of India’s Uttar Pradesh state is preventing the Christian community from using a cemetery as the country reels from the Covid-19 pandemic. “Even today, two of our members died of Covid-19 and we are running from pillar to post of the administration office to perform the last rites. If […]

St John’s guides Odisha diocese on Covid-19

St John’s National Academy of Health Sciences, a prestigious Church institution in Bengaluru, has begun guiding a diocese in Odisha in Covid protocol behaviour. “My diocese is grateful to St John’s Medical College helping us to deal with the present crisis due to the coronavirus pandemic,” Bishop Niranjan Sualsingh of Sambalpur told Matters India May […]

India Kills 22 Million Girl Babies in 30 Years

India’s sex-selective abortion holocaust astronomically eclipses COVID-19 fatalities, with up to 22 million female babies estimated to have been massacred in the last three decades, according to a new study in The Lancet. Writing in the world’s most prestigious medical journal, seven Indian researchers posit “a total of between 13.5 million and 22.1 million missing female births from 1987 to […]

Modi blamed for inaction amid India’s pandemic crisis

Things are taking gory turns for India on multiple fronts. Even those who sympathize with Prime Minister Narendra Modi are upset with his decision-making style, which is centered only on the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO). Subramanian Swamy, an MP of Modi’s own Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), recently said Modi should leave the management of the […]

Many mosques in India turned into Covid centers

A catastrophic second wave of COVID-19 has overwhelmed India’s already creaky health infrastructure, with hospitals running out of beds and oxygen, while critical drugs are being sold on a thriving black market. Social media platforms have been flooded with SOS messages from people pleading for oxygen cylinders and hospital admissions as authorities struggled to cope […]

Church leaders ask India to deploy military in Covid-19 crisis

As Covid-19 continues to claim thousands of lives daily in India, Catholic leaders have called on the federal government to deploy the military to deal with the crisis before it worsens. “The second wave of Covid-19 is surely a national calamity and the entire nation is struggling as thousands are dying and hundreds of thousands […]

Eviction-facing Indian Catholics to fight Muslim charity’s claims

Goans oppose tourism project near 16th century basilica