By Jose Kavi New Delhi, May 7, 2020: The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India on May 7 expressed shock and pain over the gas leak in Visakhapatnam, a port city in Andhra Pradesh state. “From the reports it is noted that many have died and scores are ill, and theContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, March 7, 2020: A national level group of Catholic women has asked the head of the Catholic Church in India to take steps to remove a rape accused prelate from the bishops’ house as his presence there threatens the case’s fair trial. The ‘SistersContinue 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
By Jose Kavi Mumbai, July 17, 2019: Father Jude Botelho, who was part of a team that helped revitalize the Indian Catholic Church’s social communication ministry, died on July 16. Father Botelho, a Bombay archdiocesan priest who was the secretary of Unda-Asia (now known as Signis), the regional body ofContinue Reading
New Delhi, Apr 6, 2019: The new government should imbibe the culture of charity and respect the Constitution and the “golden rule of secularism,” Catholic bishops said April 6 after holding discussions among the faithful across the country. The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI) has submitted a report onContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, March 17, 2019: The Catholic bishops of India on March 17 joined political and social leaders to mourn the death of Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar, an alumnus of a Church school. Parrikar, who had been battling pancreatic cancer for more than a year,Continue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, March 16, 2019: The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India has expressed anguish and sadness at the massacre of Muslims in New Zealand. At least 49 people were killed and 20 seriously injured on March 15 in a hate-filled terror attack targeting two mosques inContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, March 16, 2019: As India gets ready for the world’s biggest exercise in democracy, the head of the Catholic Church in the country has called upon people to elect leaders who listen to people, understand their needs and respond effectively. “I urge every community toContinue Reading
By Fr Nigel Barrett Varanasi, March 15, 2019: Church communicators should become prophets in this age of fake news and denounce fearlessly all that is wrong in the country as well as in the church, says the editor of a leading Christian weekly in India. “In the thirst to beContinue Reading
By The Kolkata Telegraph Editorial Board Kolkata, March 14, 2019: Impressive gestures are right up the prime minister’s street. But when he nobly invited people’s inputs for the Bharatiya Janata Party’s election manifesto, he may not have been expecting quite as forthright and detailed a missive as the one presentedContinue Reading