By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, Feb. 27, 2019: The body of a Catholic priest was found on a railway track on February 27 in the western Indian state of Maharashtra. Father Jebin Maruthoor, a priest of Adilabad Syro-Malabar diocese, was going to Mumbai. According to the diocesan sources, theContinue Reading
by Nirmala Carvalho Mumbai, Feb. 26, 2019: A Catholic nun, who has promoted women’s hygiene in Indian villages for years, on February 26 expressed happiness that a documentary on menstruation has won an Oscar award. “We are very happy,” Sister Liza Ignatius, gynecologist at Our Lady of Graces Hospital inContinue Reading
Melbourne, Feb 26, 2019: Cardinal George Pell, once the third most powerful man in the Vatican and Australia’s most senior Catholic, has been found guilty of child sexual abuse after a trial in Melbourne. A jury delivered the unanimous verdict on December 11, 2018, in Melbourne’s county court, but theContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Itanagar, Feb. 24, 2019: A Christian body in Arunachal Pradesh on February 24 appealed for peace after a mob set fire to the house of the deputy chief minister of the northeastern Indian state. “We pray for our state of Arunachal Pradesh still reeling with painContinue Reading
By Nirmala Carvalho Mumbai, Feb. 23, 2019: The Archdiocese of Bombay says a BBC report on Cardinal Oswald Gracias about clerical sexual abuse did not give the full story on his response to an allegation against a priest of the archdiocese. In a Feb. 21 report, the BBC said theContinue Reading
Bhubaneswar, Feb. 22, 2019: A newly converted Christian was beheaded in the eastern Indian state of Odisha allegedly by Maoists at the behest of Hindu radicals. The body and severed head of Anand Ram Gand were found on a road on February 11 at Raigarh Tehsil village in the NabarangapurContinue Reading
Vatican, Feb 21 2019: One of the Catholic Church’s most senior cardinals has admitted that he could have better handled sexual abuse allegations that were brought to him. Oswald Gracias, the Archbishop of Mumbai is one of four men organising a major Vatican conference on child abuse this week. InvestigationContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kochi, Feb. 19, 2019: The police in Kerala on February 19 registered a case against a Franciscan Clarist Congregation convent after a nun complained that she was illegally confined and tortured for deposing against a rape accused bishop. The case arose after the brother of SisterContinue Reading
By Santosh Digal Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, Feb. 18, 2019: The Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences (FABC) has urged the international community to find a diplomatic solution to the on-going Rohingya refugee crisis. This was expressed by Bishop Allwyn D’Silva, Executive Secretary of the Office of Human Development and Climate ChangeContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Thalassery, Feb. 16, 2019: A Catholic priest in Kerala on February 16 was awarded 20 years of rigorous imprisonment or hard labor for raping and impregnating a minor girl. A court in Thalassery (formerly Tellicherry), awarded Father Robin Vadakkumchery, former pastor of St Sebastian’s Church Kottiyoor,Continue Reading