By Matters India Reporter Bengaluru: Several human rights activists, writers, lawyers and others paid their rich tributes to Jesuit Father (Doctor) Ambrose Pinto who died of cancer on Jan 3. He was 67. He was an illustrious educationist, intellectual, writer, social activist, and promoter of justice and peace. The funeralContinue Reading

The Diocese of Orange, California, received an early Christmas present in the form of a new bishop on 19 December, when a man who entered the country as a young refugee from Vietnam in 1973 became its new auxiliary bishop. Bishop Thanh Thai Nguyen, 64, became the second priest bornContinue Reading

By: Matters India Reporter Ernakulam: Fr. George Koottickal, who founded a congregation to care for vagabonds and deranged people, died in the early hours of December 20. He was 64. The founder director of the Friends of the Birds of the Air (FBA) was undergoing treatment for some time forContinue Reading