By Felix Anthony Dibrugarh, July 5, 2020: A mission hospital in Assam’s Dibrugarh town was sealed after 12 Catholic nuns, including a doctor, was tested Covid-19 positive. The nuns and a domestic support working in the St. Vincenza Gerosa (VG) Hospital were on July 4 found to be infected withContinue 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
Shillong, July 4, 2020: As many as 506 lower primary school teachers in Meghalaya have lost their jobs because of an education scam that hit the northeastern Indian state 11 years ago. The Central Bureau of Investigation has already charge sheeted former Education Minister Ampareen Lyngdoh and retired government officials,Continue Reading
By Jessy Joseph New Delhi, July 2, 2020: A Catholic nun has died of Covid-19 in India. Sister Ajaya Mary, a provincial of the Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, died on July 2 in the Holy Family Hospital at Okhla, South Delhi. She was 67. “She wasContinue Reading
By Robancy A Helen Tuticorin, July 1, 2020: A Catholic priest was found hanging on July 1 morning in Tuticorin, Tamil Nadu. Father Xavier Alwin of Tuticorin diocese is the fourth Catholic priest to end life in the past one year in India. “It is sad to inform the unexpectedContinue Reading
By Thomas Scaria Mangaluru, July 1, 2020: As India celebrated “Doctor’s Day” on July 1, the Archdiocese of Bangalore launched a “short stay home” for doctors and health workers serving Covid hospitals. Archbishop Peter Machado of Bangalore blessed and opened the pilgrim’s home attached to Infant Jesus Shrine in Viveknagar,Continue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, June 29, 2020: Several Christian groups in India have demanded an independent probe into the death of a father and his son in police custody in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. While the All India Catholic Union (AICU) seeks the probe by aContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Nagavalli, June 29, 2020: Catholics of a parish under the diocese of Mysore on June 29 held a demonstration to protest the “punishment” transfer given to their priest for complaining to Rome about the local bishop. Father Gnana Prakash, pastor of the Sacred Heart Church inContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, June 28, 2020: Catholic bishops in India on June 28 joined civil rights groups, activists and political leaders to decry the deaths of a father and his son in police custody in Tamil Nadu, southern India. The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India “condemns most stronglyContinue Reading
Mumbai, June 27, 2020: A special court designated under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO) has denied bail to a Catholic priest charged for sexually assaulting a minor boy. Offences had been registered against Father Johnson Lawrence in December 2015 for unnatural sexual intercourse under Section 377Continue Reading