By Matters India Reporter Bhopal, Oct 22, 2021: Some young Christians have burnt the effigy of a Hindu law maker in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh to protest against his unsavory statement against Christians and Muslims. Rameshwar Sharma, a legislator belonging to the ruling pro-Hindu Bharatiya Janata Party,Continue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Bhopal: Archbishop Leo Cornelio of Bhopal on August 3 opened a new campus of the Bhopal School of Social Sciences that is expected to meet the challenges in changing professional education. The new sprawling campus – Institute of Advanced Studies — is set up at AshaniketanContinue Reading
The Church’s vital role in providing emergency help for those hit by Covid-19 is rebuilding community relations in India where Christians have been demonised by far-right politicians. Archbishop Leo Cornelio of Bhopal told Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) that, despite polarising rhetoric by politicians trying to divide citizensContinue Reading
Bhopal: Catholic churches of Madhya Pradesh will eventually have women doing rituals, exclusively exercised by priests so far. While the nun may take the lead and it will not prevent lay people to be part of it. It will be open for all, says Archbishop Leo Cornelio of Bhopal, presidentContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi: Pope Francis has dismissed from priesthood the former spokesperson of the Catholic Church in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. “Now, with regret and pain I wish to formally communicate to everyone that by an official decree from our Supreme Pontiff Pope Francis,Continue Reading
Mumbai, April 24, 2020: The rape of a 6-year-old girl in India is a “blot on society,” says Archbishop Leo Cornelio of Bhopal. The archbishop was responding to the attack in a village in Damoh district of Madhya Pradesh state on April 23 evening. The girl was abducted outside herContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, November 4, 2019: A Catholic priest in Madhya Pradesh has been charged with cheating and forgery. Father Anand Muttungal, the former spokesperson and public relation officer of the Catholic Church the central Indian state, claims he is innocent and terms the case as aContinue Reading
A magistrate in Bhopal ordered the case registration in February 2013Continue Reading