By Matters India Reporter Varanasi, Feb 24, 2020: An advocacy group for progressive Catholic religious nuns, brothers and priests in India has asked top Church bodies to oppose openly laws that try to divide citizens in the country. “The Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), the National Register of Citizens (NRC) andContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, Feb 24, 2020: Pope Francis on February 24 appointed Father Jose Chirackal as the auxiliary bishop of Tura, a diocese in the northeastern Indian state of Meghalaya. The announcement was made at noon in Rome and its corresponding time (4:30 pm) in India. FatherContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Bangalore, Feb 23, 2020: The Apostolic Carmel Sisters on February 23 elected Sister Nirmalini,a renowned educationist and human rights activist, as the twelfth superior general of their 150-year-old indigenous congregation. The election took place during the congregation’s 20th ordinary general chapter underway in Bengaluru, capital ofContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Rome, February 22, 2019: An Indian lay martyr is among the two people Pope Francis has approved for sainthood. The Pope on February 21 authorized the Congregation for the Causes of Saints to promulgate decrees for eight other candidates in various stages in the canonization process.Continue Reading
By Nirmala Carvalho Mumbai, Feb 21, 2020: The Catholic Church in India has mourned the death of Monsignor Hilary Rodrigues, a pioneer of Interreligious dialogue in India and close friend of Saint Teresa of Kolkata. He was 93. The monsignor died on February 20 from old age ailments at theContinue Reading
By C V Joseph Bengaluru, Feb 19, 2020: India’s Catholic bishops on February 19 concluded their 34 biennial plenary, asserting that none has the right to question patriotism of any citizen on subjective grounds. “We believe that patriotism is different from narrow and divisive cultural nationalism, which is radically differentContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Ratlam, Feb 18, 2020: The Sessions Court in Ratlam, a town in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, on February 19 acquitted eight Christians falsely accused of kidnapping 60 children for fraudulent religious conversion. The court acquitted them of all charges, bringing joy among ChristianContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Bengaluru, Feb 17, 2020: Cardinal Oswald Gracias, Archbishop of Bombay, on February 17 reelected president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India for a second term. The election took place on the fifth day of the conferences’ 34 plenary assembly at John’s Medical College in Bengaluru,Continue Reading
By C V Joseph Bengaluru, Feb. 16, 2020: Any kind of discrimination that separates people of this great nation on the basis of religion cannot be accepted, India’s Catholic bishops asserted on February 15, the fourth day of their 34 plenary assembly in Bengaluru. The bishops, who belong to threeContinue Reading
By C V Joseph Bengaluru, Feb 13, 2020: Cardinal Oswald Gracias, president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India, says consistent dialogue with all sections of people is important and necessary to maintain unity and harmony in society. “Dialogue is the tapestry of different cultures, languages and ethnic diversity andContinue Reading