By Jose Kavi New Delhi, May 13, 2023: Frustrated at the Indian Church leaders’ “lukewarm response” to attacks against Christians, an advocacy group of progressive Catholic priests and nuns has urged them to become good shepherds “who do not run away when the wolf comes to attack the sheep.” AnContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Bengaluru, Nov 11, 2022: Archbishop Andrews Thazhath of Trichur has been elected president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI), the national body that represents more than 22 million Catholics in the country. The conference’s general body that met in Bengaluru Nov 6-11 also electedContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Vaishali, Aug 12, 2022: The National Institute of Social Communications Research and Training (NISCORT) inaugurated a new staff residence and an additional floor to its present Academic Block at Vaishali, Ghaziabad in the NCR region. The Mass Media Communications College is run by the Catholic Bishops’Continue Reading
By Jessy Joseph New Delhi: Indian bishops’ laity council has launched programs and seminars to prepare Catholics for the Synod 2023. “This is the first time in the history of the Catholic Church that discussions and observations regarding Church activities are sought from the people of God from the grassrootsContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, Dec 9, 2021: The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI) December 9 joined national and international leaders to express shock and sadness over a chopper crash that killed 13 people, including India’s Chief of Defense Staff Bipin Rawat. The crash occurred December 8 when Rawat,Continue Reading
By Irudhaya Jothi Kailashahar (Tripura), Nov 13, 2021: Dalits are demanding Indo-Dalit individual Church and Rite when the Church in India is celebrating Dalit Liberation Sunday on November 14. Dalit Liberation Sunday is celebrated every year since 2007 by the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI) in collaboration with theContinue Reading
Pope Francis said that he is praying for the people of India as they face a devastating coronavirus outbreak. In a message dated May 6 to Cardinal Oswald Gracias of Bombay, president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India, the pope expressed his “heartfelt solidarity” with the country’s 1.3 billionContinue Reading
By Nirmala Carvalho Mumbai: The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India has held a day of prayer to express closeness to the victims of sexual abuse of minors and raise awareness of the problem among the faithful. Sister Arina Gonsalves of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors says theContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi: The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI) has expressed its grief over the Uttarakhand glacier calamity and offered its condolences to the family members of those who have died or are missing in the incident. The death toll from the disaster rose to 28Continue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, Aug 31, 2020: The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI) on August 31 expressed deep sadness over the death of former President Pranab Mukherjee earlier in the day. Mukherjee passed away after he developed a lung infection at New Delhi’s Army’s Research and ReferralContinue Reading