By Purushottam Nayak Raikia, May 7, 2019: Hundreds of Christians and Hindus attended a thanksgiving Mass for two sisters who became full-fledged Catholic nuns after suffering religious persecution as teenagers in Odisha’s Kandhamal district. While Manjuta Pradhan professed final vows as a member of the Franciscan Sisters of St. JosephContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kottayam, May 5, 2019: A court in Kerala on May 4 summoned Bishop Franco Mulakkal of Jalandhar to appear before it on May 10 in connection with a rape case. In a major development in the case, the Judicial First Class Magistrate Court in Pala hasContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Mumbai, May 4, 2019: The head of the Catholic Church and general secretary of Muslim theologians in India on May 4 proposed to send a high level interfaith delegation to Sri Lanka to explore ways to help the island nation struggling to recover from terrorist attacks.Continue Reading
By Purushottam Nayak Bhubaneswar, May 4, 2019: At least eight people were killed when the extremely severe cyclonic storm Fani barrelled into the Odisha coast on April 3. Several churches, including St. Vincent’s Pro-Cathedral Church and the residence of the archbishop of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar were severely hit when the storm, consideredContinue Reading
By Julian S Das Pune, April 30, 2019: A group of South-Asian Jesuits has expressed the joy of rediscovering the richness of an Ignatian spiritual tradition. President of the Jesuit Conference of South Asia, Father George Pattery, called the ‘spiritual conversation’ as “a rare fruit.” Some 200 Jesuits from 19Continue Reading
By Udayanath Bishoyi Bengaluru, April 29, 2019: India’s Catholic theologians have decided to collaborate with civil organizations and people of good will to check forces of religious fundamentalism, bigotry and discrimination. Since past few decades, communal identity construction has emerged in the Indian society that undermines the country’s pluralistic nature.Continue Reading
By Matters India Reporters New Delhi, April 28, 2019: Hundreds of thousands of Catholics throughout India dedicated April 28, the feast of Divine Mercy, to pray for neighboring Sri Lanka that was ravaged by serial blasts a week ago. The Conference of Catholic Bishops of India, the national body ofContinue Reading
By Julian S Das Pune, April 27, 2019: A group of South Asian Jesuits has paid homage to the massacred people in Sri Lanka on Easter day. Inaugurating a four-day seminar on “Interculturality for Reconciled Life and Mission” at Jnana-Deepa Vidyapeeth, Pune, April 25, the Jesuits observed one -silence inContinue Reading
By Felix Anthony Chandel, April 26, 2019: A group miscreants has burned down the second oldest Catholic school in Manipur over disciplinary action taken against some students. St. Joseph Higher Secondary School at Sugnu in Chandel district of the northeastern Indian state lost all its files and records of theContinue Reading
By C V Joseph Bengaluru, April 24, 2019: Archbishop Peter Machado of Bangalore on April 24 asked a Bharatiya Janata Party leader to withdraw his anti-Christian remarks and offer an unconditional apology to the community. The uncalled for remarks of K S Eshwarappa are condemnable and highly deplorable, the archbishopContinue Reading