By Matters India Reporter Bhatpur, July 12, 2020: Pastor Munsi Deo Tando was abducted and murdered in near Bhatpar, a village in the Gadchiroli district of the western Indian state of Maharashtra. A group of Naxalites or Maoists came to the pastor’s house as he was concluding a 90-minute prayerContinue Reading

By Matters India Reporter Panchgani, July 9, 202: A group of health workers from Tellicherry archdiocese in Kerala has won praises for their dedicated services among coronavirus victims in a Maharashtra district. “The district collector and other officers are highly impressed with their work,” says Father Tomy Kariyilakulam, director BelContinue Reading

By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, July 8, 2020: Tributes continue to pour in for Father Raymond Ambroise, a noted communicator in the Asian Church, who died of heart attack on July 7 in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad. Father Raymond’s elder brother Bishop Emeritus Yvon Ambroise of TuticorinContinue Reading

By Lourduraj SJ Hyderabad, July 7, 2020: Father Raymond Ambroise, former secretary of the Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences (FABC) Office of Social Communication and consultant to Manila-based Radio Veritas Asia died of heart attack on July 7. He was 75. The death came at 8:25 am at Home forContinue Reading

By Matters India Reporter Chennai, July 4, 2020: Jesuit Father Joseph L Pragasam became the first Jesuit in India to die of Covid-19. Father Pragasam passed away on July 3 at Saravana Hospital, Madurai, about 465 km south of Chennai. He was 83 and a Jesuit for 64 years. “JesuitsContinue Reading