By Sr. Robancy A Helen
Tuticorin, 15 February 2023: Antony Edward Eugene, an assistant headmaster of St. Francis Xavier Higher Secondary School, has been appointed as the third lay secretary of the Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST) Commission of the Diocese of Tuticorin, Tamil Nadu, south India.
The appointment...
By Robancy A Helen
Thanjavur, February 8, 2023: Poverty can never be an obstacle to success, as the four doctorate holders proved on February 3 at the Senate Hall of Tamil University, Thanjavur.
Professor Ku. Chinnappan, the head of the Department of Education and Management, released four books on transgender women...
By DCD Reporter
January 30, 2023, Chennai: Tamil Nadu Bishops’ Council (NDBC) organized a consultation to disseminate and implement the Dalit Empowerment Policy on January 30 at Dyana Ashram in Chennai.
"The Policy of Dalit Empowerment in the Catholic Church in India: An Ethical Imperative to Build Inclusive Communities" was released...
By DCD Desk
As part of the New Education Policy of 1986, Navodaya Vidyalayas were established across India in the same year.
The aim of establishing these innovative schools is to provide quality education to the rural poor. A total of 668 Navodaya schools have been established in the country. There...
In states like southern Tamil Nadu, Church and political leaders need to do more to end caste-based discrimination
By N. Leo Samuel
In the last week of December, a few people from Vengaivayal, a village in Pudukottai district of Tamil Nadu in southern India, were treated for upset stomachs and vomiting at the...
By Purushottam Nayak
Raikia, January 8, 2023: K.P. Sasi, the filmmaker of "VOICES FROM THE RUINS," the world-famous documentary film on Kandhamal anti-Christian violence in 2008, lives in the hearts and minds of hundreds of Kandhamal survivors.
"Sasi was a committed and dedicated human rights activist, filmmaker and director, and cartoonist.
By DCD Desk
The National Dalit Christian Watch (NDCW), a civil society organization, appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to continue Pre-Matric scholarship for the students of Scheduled Caste (SC), Scheduled Tribe (ST), Other Backward Communities (OBC), and religious minorities from classes 1 to 8.
NDCW was "deeply distressed to know...
By Purushottam Nayak
Bhubaneswar, December 5, 2022: The Union Government of India has stopped the pre-matric scholarship for Scheduled Caste (SC), Scheduled Tribe (ST), Other Backward Communities (OBC), and religious minority students of Classes 1 to 8 from the academic year 2022–23.
Moreover, Dalit Christian students are the most affected by...
By Robancy A Helen
Trichy, November 26, 2022: A Catholic priest of the Thanjavur diocese in Tamil Nadu, south India, met with a road accident and died on November 25. He was 50 years old.
Father S. Arockia Sundaram was serving as the parish priest of the newly erected Gnanam Nagar...
By RVA News | November 10, 2022
The parishioners of Our Lady of Periyanayagi Shrine in Konankuppam, in southern India's state of Tamil Nadu, celebrated an Italian Jesuit missionary’s 342nd birthday, on November 5.
Father Costanzo Giuseppe Beschi (1680–1747) was sent to the Madurai Mission, Tamil Nadu, in 1711. For his contributions to the Tamil...
