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By Matters India Reporter Panaji, Oct 24, 2023: Taking a cue from Pope Francis, Cardinal Filipe Neri Ferrao, archbishop of Goa and Daman, has invited the priests, Religious and lay people in the western Indian archdiocese to observe October 27 as a day of prayer, penance and fasting for peace.Continue Reading

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Matters India Reporter Nagrakata, October 23, 2023 : A tea garden parish in the Dooars area of Jalpaiguri district of North Bengal has celebrated 100 years of founding of Catholic community. Bishop Clement Tirkey of Jalpaiguri welcomed Apostolic Nuncio to India and Nepal, Archbishop Leopoldo Girelli and seven other bishopsContinue Reading

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By Sujata Jena Bhubaneswar, Oct 23, 2023: The Conference of Catholic Bishops in India (CCBI) has organized a public strategic planning workshop for the Church in Odisha to help it focus on Synodality, Vatican-II documents, and New Evangelization in multi-religious and cultural contexts. The October 16-18 workshop “was to revisitContinue Reading

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By Irudhaya Jothi Basanti, Oct 21, 2023: On October 22, the Catholic mission in the Sundarbans island of West Bengal will complete 150 years. On that day in 1873, the mission opened its first parish, Basanti, by Jesuit Belgian missionary Father Edmund Delplace (1841-1927) and a professor at St. Xavier’sContinue Reading

Bishop-elect Benny Varghese Edathattel

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By Nabam Pekhi Itanagar, Oct 17, 2023: The diocese of Itanagar in the northeastern Indian state of Arunachal has installed its second bishop in the presence of more than 10,000 people. Archbishop John Moolachira of Guwahati on October 15 led the episcopal ordination of Bishop Benny Edathattel in Sacred HeartContinue Reading

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By I P Sarto Dumka, Oct 17, 2023: More than 25,000 people, including Hindus, walked on the streets of Dumka, the second capital of Jharkhand state in eastern India, to conclude the four-day convention of the Basic Ecclesial Communities (BEC) Synod. People from seven deaneries of the Dumka diocese, dressedContinue Reading

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By I P Sarto Dumka, Oct 13, 2023: The tribals irrespective of their religions and languages need to assert their human right as “Adivasis” (indigenous people), said Gladson Dungdung, a human right activist from Ranchi, capital of Jharkhand state. He was addressing the convention of the animators of the BasicContinue Reading