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By F. M. Britto Raipur, June 20, 2023: Three masked men have looted a presbytery in broad daylight under the Raipur archdiocese in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh. “I am safe, anyhow,” Father Varghese Thekkekut, parish priest of St. Theresa of Avila at Bagbahra in Mahasamund district, told MattersContinue Reading

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By F M Britto Raipur, Aug 8, 2022: For nearly 45 years, a frail Catholic priest with long hair and beard and dressed in a white dhoti and yellow kurta with a thin white shawl used to move about in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh. However, these days, theContinue Reading

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By F. M. Britto Raipur, Jan 21, 2022: The invitation from the parish priest to participate in the golden jubilee celebration of Pithora parish in my Raipur archdiocese delighted me. After my priestly ordination in May 1979, then Diocesan Administrator Pallottine Monsignor Francis Werner Hunold appointed me the assistant parishContinue Reading

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By F M Britto Raipur, Dec 3-, 2021: A suspended Catholic priest has become a semi-god a year after his death in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh. Hundreds people from other religions now visit “Seva Ashram” (hermitage of service), the late Father Joseph Parecattil had opened in Parsahi village.Continue Reading

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By Fr F. M. Britto Raipur, Oct 11, 2021: Just two years after my priestly ordination, having served as an assistant in rural Pithora parish, our then Raipur Diocesan Administrator Monsignor Francis Werner Hunold appointed me as the first priest in charge of a new town parish Kawardha in aContinue Reading

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By F. M. Britto Raipur, Jan 23, 2020: Police in Chhattisgarh are investigating the reason for a ninth grade boy, who committed suicide at a Catholic hostel in Jairamnagar, near Bilaspur in the central Indian state. The CCTV footage showed Dileshwar Marawi going to St. Joseph’s Higher Secondary School onContinue Reading