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How AAP threatens to queer Congress pitch in South Goa LS seat
10 months, 1 week ago

How AAP threatens to queer Congress pitch in South Goa LS seat

India Today  

The Aam Aadmi Party has thrown a spoke in the wheels of the INDIA front and potentially queered the pitch for the Congress in its traditional stronghold by announcing a nominee for the South Goa Lok Sabha seat. “I really do not know why AAP has taken the premature step of declaring their candidate for a seat that already has …

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Petition in Kerala High Court seeks to ensure representation of most backward communities in appointment of judges to HC
1 year ago

Petition in Kerala High Court seeks to ensure representation of most backward communities in appointment of judges to HC

The Hindu  

A former scientist of the India Council for Agriculture Research has moved the Kerala High Court seeking directions to the Central Government and others to ensure equitable representation to Scheduled Castes, Latin Catholics or other backward communities in the appointment of judges to the High Court of Kerala. M. K. Mukundan moved the High Court pointing out that there was …

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The role of the Church in Kerala’s politics
1 year, 2 months ago

The role of the Church in Kerala’s politics

Hindustan Times  

Bins Abraham owns a 12-acre rubber plantation in Erattupetta, a plantation town nestled in the foothills of the Western Ghats. Though the term “love jihad” was coined by Right-wing Hindu groups in 2007, the Catholic Church in Kerala began to use it as an instrument to discourage inter-religious marriages. In January 2020, the synod or highest administrative body of Syro-Malabar …

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Data Point: Situating the debate on same-sex marriage
1 year, 7 months ago

Data Point: Situating the debate on same-sex marriage

The Hindu  

The Data Point is a bi-weekly newsletter in which The Hindu’s Data team decodes the numbers behind today’s biggest stories. Attitude towards homosexuality in India While the Union government claimed that the legalisation of same-sex marriages merely voiced “urban elitist views”, data show that the urban elite people were not more accepting of same-sex relationships than the rural poor. Around …

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Archbishop says proud moment for Telugu Catholics
2 years, 6 months ago

Archbishop says proud moment for Telugu Catholics

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Archbishop of Hyderabad Rev. Poola Anthony received a grand welcome by the clergy, heads of the Catholic institutions and other important members of the archdiocese and a guard of honour by students, at the bishop’s house in Secunderabad on Monday. Anthony returned to the city from Kerala after attending the bishop’s conference, where it was officially announced that the …

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Beyond All Frenzy, the Pope-Modi Meeting Does Little for BJP and Vatican
3 years, 1 month ago

Beyond All Frenzy, the Pope-Modi Meeting Does Little for BJP and Vatican

The Quint  

The two Cardinals in Kerala are jubilant, the remainder of the Catholics underwhelmed, the denominational and independent churches phlegmatic, a section of the Muslims apprehensive, and civil society a little annoyed. The hug that Indian Prime minister Narendra Modi gave Pope Francis in the Vatican this October while inviting the Roman pontiff for a long delayed visit to India has …

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Modi's One-on-one with Pope Historic Fifth, Who Are Other Indian PMs to Meet Catholic Head at Vatican
3 years, 1 month ago

Modi's One-on-one with Pope Historic Fifth, Who Are Other Indian PMs to Meet Catholic Head at Vatican

News 18  

Even as Prime Minister Narendra Modi is all set to have a historic one-on-one meeting with Pope Francis for the first time on Saturday at Vatican City, he is the fifth Indian prime minister to visit the head of the Roman Catholics, the largest religious denomination in the world. Kerala Catholic Bishops Council president Cardinal George Alencherry said they had …

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Kerala: Marriage between Christian woman and Muslim man upsets faithfuls
4 years, 1 month ago

Kerala: Marriage between Christian woman and Muslim man upsets faithfuls

Op India  

Mar Mathew Vaniyakizhakkel, former bishop of Satna, has said he is sorry for having attended a marriage function of a Christian woman with a Muslim man. However, I regret attending it.” The Canon Law of Catholic Church and ‘disparity of cult’ The Canon Law of the Catholic Church is a set of laws and legal principles developed by the hierarchical …

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