By Matters India Reporter Vatican City, Oct 30, 2021: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on October 30 invited Pope Francis to India. The Indian premier, who is in Italy to attend the G-20 summit, extended the invitation during his a one-on-one meeting with the Pope in Vatican City. “Had a veryContinue Reading
By Donna Birrell London, Oct 16, 2021: Former Anglican Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali of Rochester, a native of Pakistan, has been received into the Catholic Church ahead of being ordained to the Catholic priesthood. He is part of the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham which was established ten years agoContinue Reading
By Mabel Kaithavelil Rome: Sister Vandana Fernandes, an Indian, has been elected the superior general of the Rome-based Ursulines of Mary Immaculate (UMI) congregation. The election took place October 4 during the congregation’s 66th general chapter now being held at its headquarters. The chapter, animated by Jesuit Father M KContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Bhubaneswar, Sept. 29, 2021: A tribal environmental activist from Odisha is one of the participants of the ‘Youth4Climate,’ the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in Milan, Italy. Archana Soreng is one of the seven members of the UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres’ youth advisory group onContinue Reading
By Thomas Scaria Mangaluru: Sister Theresa Crasta is the only woman religious from India who was rescued by the Indian government from Afghanistan in August after the Taliban captured Kabul. Crasta belongs to the Congregation of the Sisters of Charity of Saints Bartolomea Capitanio and Vincenza Gerosa, or Sisters ofContinue Reading
Rome: The Claretian missionaries on August 30 re-elected Indian Father Mathew Vattamattam as its superior general during the congregation’s general chapter in Rome. Father Vattamattam was born on May 30, 1959, in Kalathoor, Kerala, southern India. He did his basic studies at St. Mary School, Kalathoor, and his secondary studiesContinue Reading
New Delhi: No gunshots have been heard since the Taliban took control of Kabul but the situation is precarious and getting more so with each passing hour, say four Indian teachers in war-ravaged Afghanistan, appealing for immediate evacuation so they can return to their families back home. All four areContinue Reading
Ottawa: Leading Indian-origin entrepreneur Ajay Dilwari has been honoured with Canada’s prestigious Order of British Columbia award, the province’s highest form of recognition. Mr Dilwari, the owner of Canada’s largest automotive group — Dilawri Group — is among 16 “exceptional people” to be appointed to the Order of British Columbia,Continue Reading
Indian-American schoolgirl Natasha Peri, 11, has been named in the worlds “brightest” students list based on results of above-grade-level testing of 19,000 students across 84 countries, according to Johns Hopkins Center For Talented Youth (CTY), a part of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. “Peri, a student at Thelma L.Continue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Abu Dhabi: An Indian Muslim billionaire businessman, based in United Arab Emirates, has come forward to help build a Protestant church in its capital city of Abu Dhabi. Yusuff Ali Musaliam Veettil Abdul Kader, popularly known as M A Yusuff Ali on July 23 donated 500,000Continue Reading