By Matters India Reporter
New Delhi, Aug 20, 2023: A Catholic nun from southern India has won this year’s award for best reportage on Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe.
The Indian Catholic Press Association (ICPA) that gives the annual award says it chose Sister Robancy A. Helen for authentically and consistently being...
By Robancy A. Helen
The Christian Arunthiyar Rights Movement organized the 40th day memorial for P. Jayaseelan, the general secretary at Tamil Nadu Bishops’ Council, Commission for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (TNBC Commission for SC/ST, Udhaya Deepam), in Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, on July 17.
Bishop P. Thomas Paulsamy, president of...
By DCD Reporter
"Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will." This is a renowned sentence used by the priests and religious in the Catholic Church when they pronounce their religious vows or their priestly ordination.
It is an emotional and profound statement when it...
By DCD Reporter
The National Dalit Christian Watch (NDCW) is deeply pained at the recent violence in Manipur that have caused violence and destroyed several churches and so many lives, making people suffer without food and shelter.
NDCW condemns the inhuman and illogical actions beyond law and order and the lack...
By Robancy A Helen
India is a democratic and secular state. It promotes equality and brotherhood. The Constitution of India treats its citizens equally, but Indian society still holds on to casteism, and Dalit Christians and Dalit Muslims are discriminated against based on religion.
This is not something new. One understands the...
By Robancy A Helen
April 19 is indeed a day of social justice and a happy day for the Dalit Christians in Tamil Nadu and all those who fought for the justice of giving Scheduled Caste status to the Dalit Christians.
On April 18, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin...
Discrimination of Dalits in the Church is a plain and simple truth, but not accepted forthrightly by Church hierarchy
By Dr M Mary John
April 17, 2023:
The celebration of Easter 2023 with all the rhetoric, rituals, and mechanical yearly replication is just over and now it...
By Robancy A Helen
"Oorukku Oru Kudi" (A Family per Village) is the autobiography of a 38-year-old woman, who belongs to the Puthirai Vannan community, known as Dhobis (washermen and women) or Thurumbars in Tamil Nadu, south India.
Juliyes Vanathaiyan, a woman from the district of Villupuram in Tamil Nadu, shares her...
By Purushottam Nayak
New Delhi, February 21, 2023: About 15,000 people representing over 100 churches and faith-based organizations held a peaceful protest on Sunday, February 19, at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi.
The demonstrations in the national capital drew the attention of the government, the Supreme Court, and civil society groups...
By DCD Desk
Caste discrimination is a grave social sin. This statement was declared by the Indian Catholic bishops when they agreed six years ago, on December 13, 2016, while promulgating the Dalit Empowerment Policy.
Nothing much has changed even after disseminating the policy and releasing it in eight languages, including Spanish.
