By Matters India Reporter Jharsuguda, Feb. 17, 2019: The Indian Catholic Press Association (ICPA), national forum of Catholic journalists, has decided to visit Kandhamal, the epi-center of anti-Christian persecution next month. The ICPA will hold its National Convention and Annual General Body meeting at Arnold Vikas Sanchar Sadan, Jharsuguda, Odisha,Continue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Mumbai, Feb. 17, 2019: Father Arturo Sosa, superior general of the Society of Jesus, is scheduled to make his first visit the Bombay Jesuit Province on March 2. This is his second visit to India. Father Sosa had chosen India for his first official trip inContinue Reading
By C.M. Paul Guwahati, Feb. 17, 2019: Assam Don Bosco University (ADBU) has organized a two-day workshop as part of its commitment to promote the use of Free and Open Source Software in Engineering studies. The February 16-17 workshop was the fourth on Arduino and Raspberry Pi (WAR-2019) hardware andContinue Reading
By Varghese Alengaden Indore, Feb. 17, 2019: February 14 brought shocking news of terrorist attack that killed 44 CRPF soldiers when a 20-year-old suicide bomber rammed his vehicle laden with 350 kg of explosives into a bus travelling on Jammu–Srinagar highway. It was part of 78–vehicle convoy carrying 2500 CRPFContinue Reading
By chhotebhai Kanpur, Feb. 16, 2019: On February 14, a fidayeen (suicide) bomber attacked a CRPF convoy of 78 vehicles transporting 2547 troopers. It was a hit that ran up a casualty figure of 45 at last count. The next day Prime Minister Narendra Modi flagged off Train 18, renamedContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kochi, Feb. 16, 2019: The Syro-Malabar Church on February 16 welcomed a court awarding 20 years of jail to a Catholic priest in Kerala for raping and impregnating a minor girl. “The Church acknowledges and welcomes the verdict,” says a press release from the Media CommissionContinue Reading
Vatican City, Feb. 16, 2019: In the first ever such penalty, Pope Francis has defrocked former US cardinal Theodore Edgar McCarrick over soliciting sex in the confessional. McCarrick was found guilty of sexual crimes against minors and adults 50 years ago. Pope Francis decided the ruling, which followed an appealContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Vailodam, Feb. 16, 2019: The Kerala Vincentian Society, the social service wing of Congregation of Mission (CM) priests, South Indian Province, has built two more houses for the devastating flood victims in Kerala. “Two houses have been blessed and handed over to the flood victims inContinue Reading
Matters India reporter Burkina Faso, Feb. 16, 2019: Salesian missionary Fr Antonio Cesar Fernandez was shot dead on 15 February, probably by Jihadists, near the border between Togo and Burkina Faso. Fr Cesar hailing from Spain had spent some 50 years in Africa as a missionary. The Salesian Province MaryContinue Reading
Kochi, Feb 16, 2019: A Catholic nun, who had joined a protest against a rape-accused bishop, has received another letter from her superiors threatening to expel her from the congregation unless ‘she changes her mind.’ Franciscan Clarist Congregation Superior General Sister Ann Joseph has issued the second canonical warning letterContinue Reading