By Jose Kavi New Delhi, October 19, 2019: Readers and associates of Union of Catholic Asian News (UCA News) seem confused and shocked after two websites appeared in early October offering news in the name of Asia’s largest Church news agency. “It is shocking to hear about the sad stateContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Pune, October 7, 2019: About 100 Catholic women religious in India have called for a place at the table in church leadership and asked that canon law be amended to make it more relevant and inclusive. They stressed these and other points at a “Women inContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, October 16, 2019: The Vatican Congregation for the Oriental Churches has rejected Sister Lucy Kalappura’s appeal against her dismissal from the Franciscan Clarist Congregation. This was disclosed in a letter India’s Apostolic Nuncio Archbishop Giambattista Diquattro sent to Sister Ann Joseph, superior general ofContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kochi, October 15, 2019: A doctor in Kerala has questioned the Catholic Church’s dependence on miracles to declare someone a saint. Sulphi Noohu, secretary of the Kerala unit of the Indian Medical Association told CNN News 18 on October 16 that superstition should not be attachedContinue Reading
By Rita Joseph New Delhi, October 14, 2019: At a highly polarized time when the country’s secular ethos stands threatened as never before, the Society of Jesus are upping the ante on inter-faith dialogue. The Jesuit Conference of South Asia (JCSA) held a three-day Assistancy meeting of dialogue coordinators atContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Shillong, Oct. 12, 2019: Prime Minister Narendra Modi led political and religious leaders to mourn the death of Archbishop Dominic Jala of Shillong in a car accident in California. The Salesian archbishop “will be remembered for his impeccable service to society and passion towards Meghalaya’s progress.Continue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, October 12, 2019: Archbishop Dominic Jala of Shillong and Father Mathew Vellankal, an Indian priest working in the United States, died in a road accident in California. The accident occurred around 11 pm October 10 (10:30 am on October 11 India time) when theContinue Reading
By C V Joseph Bengaluru, October 10, 2019: Former Bishop John Baptist Sequeira of Chikmagalur died on October 9 due to old age ailments. The end came at the Home of the Little Sisters of the Poor, Hosur Road, Bengaluru. He was 89. The funeral Service will be held atContinue Reading
By Fr. Elvis Fernandes Pilar, October 9, 2019: A visiting bishop from Mauritania has commended the Pilar missionaries from India for their loving and dedicated service to the nomads of Sahara. Bishop Martin Happe of Nouakchott, who was on a visit to the headquarters of the Society of Pilar, saidContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Pune, October 5, 2019: Women are restless for justice in the face of economic, political and social systems that produce divisions and inequality in society, says the Indian Christian Women’s Movement. “We see the whipping up of peoples’ fears, and the dismantling of democratic institutions whichContinue Reading