By N. Niranjan Nikam Mysuru, June 29, 2019: Joseph Mar Thoma, the 21st Malankara Metropolitan and the current Primate of the Mar Thoma Syrian Church, was in Mysuru recently to open a new building of St. Thomas Institutions, a school. The 88-year-old metropolitan shared with the Star of Mysore aboutContinue Reading
By Lissy Maruthanakuzhy, DSP Mumbai, June 30, 2019: Today, June 30, is the feast of Saints Peter and Paul. We conducted a novena as preparation for the feast of St Paul, the patron of the Pauline Family. Blessed James Alberione, an Italian priest, started the Pauline Family. In 1914, heContinue Reading
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By Ria Das Mangaluru, June 28, 2019: Eighteen-year-old Tanvi Jagadish is on a high. With six consecutive international medals in her kitty, the Mangaluru girl is now looking to make a mark at the Paris Stand-up Paddling Crossing, to be held in December. She is India’s first female professional stand-upContinue Reading
Kochi, June 28, 2019: Dramatic scenes prevailed at the Bishop’s House at Broadway on June 27 after Cardinal George Alencherry broke the news of his reappointment as the administrative head of the Church to his auxiliary bishops. Sources said that the major archbishop who had moved to the headquarters ofContinue Reading
Rome, June 28, 2019: Port priests should show “compassion and discretion” so that seafarers can open up but also to help fight the social injustices they often suffer, the pope has said. “The life of a sailor or fisherman is characterized by isolation and distance,” the Pope said June 27Continue Reading
Vatican, June 27: Pope Francis has called an Ordinary Public Consistory of Cardinals in Rome next week to decide on the canonization of five Blesseds, including Sister Mariam Thresia of India and Cardinal John Henry Newman of England . The Office for the Liturgical Celebrations of the Supreme Pontiff released a note on JuneContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kochi, June 27, 2019: Pope has decided to restore the administrative responsibilities of the Archdiocese of Ernakulam-Angamaly to Cardinal George Alencherry, a press statement from the Syro-Malabar Media Commission said on June 27. Cardinal Alencherry resumed office of archbishop of Ernakulam-Angamali archdiocese on June 27 morning.Continue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Jagadalpur, June 27, 2019: A Catholic nun died and five others, including a bishop, were injured in a road accident June 27 evening in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh. Sister Jaise, a member of the Deena Bandhu Samaj, an indigenous congregation, died on the wayContinue Reading
Muzaffarpur, June 27, 2019: On June 16, Krishna Kumar Verma, a farmer in Muzaffarpur’s Raghavpur village in the eastern Indian state of Bihar, was told by his sister Sita Devi that her son Ankit Kumar had a fever. Verma had been following the outbreak of Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES) orContinue Reading