By Irudhaya Jothi Silchar, May 28, 2023: More than 6,000 people on May 28 attended the ordination of Auxiliary Bishop Joachim Walder of Aizawl in northeastern India. Archbishop Victor Lyngdoh of Shillong, the chief consecrator, led the ceremony held at Don Bosco School Sankar Basti, Silchar in Assam. Among theContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, May 21, 2021: On May 2, a day before Manipur went up in flames, T. Khupminthang, took shelter in the house of his employer, a Meitei, along with his son and three others. The five Kuki tribals were residents of Churachandpur district, but workedContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kottody, May 20, 2023: A Catholic couple exchanged marriage vows and garlanded each other in front of a closed church after the groom’s priest defied a court order and refused to issue a mandatory certificate. Had the Kottayam Knanaya archdiocese granted Justin John permission to marryContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, May 18, 2023: A Syro-Malabar priest has quit active parish ministry disgusted with what he says is the decay in his Oriental Catholic Church. “I have declined to accept any parish ministry and will continue to live the values of a Catholic priesthood,” Father (Thomas)Continue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Imphal, May 16, 2023: The head of the Catholic Church in Manipur has appealed for aid for the violence-hit people of the northeastern Indian state of Manipur. The Catholic Church in the Archdiocese of Imphal is pained, saddened and concerned at the situation after unprecedented violenceContinue Reading
By Felix Anthony Margherita, May 15, 2023: Hundreds of young people from across Arunachal Pradesh have prayed for peace and forgiveness in Manipur, another state in northeastern India that recently witnessed unprecedented ethnic violence. Leading the candle-lit prayer for peace at the Divine Renewal Retreat Centre, Margherita, Assam, on MayContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, May 13, 2023: Frustrated at the Indian Church leaders’ “lukewarm response” to attacks against Christians, an advocacy group of progressive Catholic priests and nuns has urged them to become good shepherds “who do not run away when the wolf comes to attack the sheep.” AnContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Guwahati, May 12, 2023: Archbishop Thomas Menamparampil on May 12 called for happy relationship and spiritual bondedness among people of various cultural backgrounds, traditions, religions, interests, and sensitivities in the country. This call makes intense meaning in the context of recent tragedies in Manipur where tensionsContinue Reading
By Purushottam Nayak Balasore, May 11, 2023: Pope Francis has appointed an Indian prelate serving Ethiopia in East Africa as the new bishop of Balasore diocese in the eastern Indian state of Odisha. The Vatican on May 10 announced the appointment of Monsignor Varghese Thottamkara, a member of the CongregationContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kottarakkara, May 10, 2023: The murder of a 25-year-old woman doctor on duty allegedly by a drug addict has sent shock waves across the southern Indian state of Kerala. State Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan led the mourning for Vandana Das, a house surgeon who was killedContinue Reading