By Matters India Reporter Darjeeling: In spite of the pandemic times disrupting regular novitiate schedules, in the nine novitiates of South Asia region, this year has more novices making their first profession than last year. Starting from traditional 24th May date for the first professions, this year there are 120Continue Reading
Darjeeling – Fr. Thomas Panakezham also known as P.C. Thomas died at the hospice of the Little Sisters of the Poor, Hosur Road, Bangalore, at 2.25 pm on April 24, 2021. He was 91 years old. Fr Panakezham was the first Indian Salesian to be provincial of Chennai and firstContinue Reading
New Delhi: The Salesians of Don Bosco, a leading worldwide Catholic religious congregation for men, has inaugurated a new 45-kilowatt solar on-grid power plant and rainwater collectors at one of their centers in the Indian national capital. This installation is a vital step toward fulfilling the Salesian congregational ambition ofContinue Reading
Washington DC, Oct. 19, 2018: In one remote corner of India, a nation where Hindu nationalists control the government and have been accused of stoking intolerance and violence against religious minorities, the Catholic Church is faring quite well. In the diocese of Miao, in Arunachal Pradesh state in extreme easternContinue Reading
The UN General Assembly chose September 5, the death anniversary of Saint Mother Teresa of Kolkata, as the International Day of CharityContinue Reading
Matters India reporter Sonada, Darjeeling — Students of one of the most vulnerable regions in the country for victims of human trafficking got alert on women and child trafficking by one of the leading Non Government Organisations working in the filed for over a decade. The students of Salesian CollegeContinue Reading
Nirmala Carvalho Mumbai: Cardinal Oswald Gracias helped mark the diamond jubilee of the Shrine of Our Lady Help of Christians in Mumbai on November 12, taking the occasion to urge the faithful to pray the rosary. “It is essential that we pray together as a family, pray the rosary inContinue Reading
By Jose Kuruvachira Rome : A fund raiser of worldwide Don Bosco Society marks 50 years of religious profession celebrating Holy Eucharist in the very room in which Don Bosco stayed during his 20th and last visit to Rome in 1887, adjacent to the basilica of the Sacred Heart ofContinue Reading
Every year, the Salesians of Don Bosco save hundreds of young women and girls from early marriage and a destiny of domestic slavery, this according Fr M C George Menamparampil, national coordinator for the Don Bosco Schools in India.Continue Reading
Guwahati – The Education Research & Development Foundation (ERDF), Guwahati, presented the ERDF Excellence Awards 2015 to 18 eminent citizens of Assam who played major roles in various fields and contributed immensely to the society. Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi gave away the awards, January 20, at the University of Science andContinue Reading