By chhotebhai Kanpur, April 3, 2019: April 1 is a fun day. With the advent of electronic communication I can now fool people across the world. I get fiendish delight in fooling the “powerful”, and have often incurred their wrath. This April Fool’s Day would have been no different, untilContinue Reading
By Santosh Digal Manila, April 3, 2019: Asian Christians are better informed about the Churches in Europe and America than those in neighboring countries, says Salesian Father George Plathottam, the new executive secretary of the Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences Office of Social Communication (FABC-OSC). The media practitioner, who hasContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi Kochi, April 3, 2019: Father George Mutholil has been appointed Jesuits’ new regional assistant for South Asia. He replaces Father Lisbert D’Souza, who completes his term this year. This was announced on March 27 by Arturo Marcelino Sosa Abascal, superior general of the Society of Jesus, theContinue Reading
By Jacob Peenikaparambil The New Indian Express on March 30 reported that the Punjab Police claimed to have recovered 96.6 million rupees of hawala money from six persons, including a priest belonging to Jalandhar diocese. It is a huge amount of cash. Those who were caught by the police andContinue Reading
Kochi, Apr 2, 2019: A court in Kerala on April 2 asked Syro-Malabar Church head Cardinal George Alencherry to appear before it over allegation of misappropriation of church property. Directing the cardinal’s appearance on May 22, a Judicial Magistrate Court in Kochi also tasked others connected to the allegations toContinue Reading
Vatican City, Apr 2, 2019: Pope Francis said on April 2 that the Catholic Church had to acknowledge a history of male domination and sexual abuse of women and children and repair its reputation among young people or risk becoming “a museum.” But, in a major document in which heContinue Reading
Mumbai, April 2, 2019:The Bombay High Court on April 1 directed St. John The Baptist Church, Thane, to approach the Thane municipal commissioner, seeking permission to bury an ex-service personnel on an open ground in possession of the church. The trust had on March 20, buried the person without anyContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Manado, April 2, 2019: Churches need to create space for their people to intervene in Asia’s social complexities on time, says general secretary of the Christian Conference of Asia (CCA). Observing that Christians in Asia live amid complex social situations that affect their lives, Reverend MathewsContinue Reading
By Robancy A Helen Chennai, April 2, 2019: The Tamil Nadu Bishops’ Council has condemned the recent mob attacks on a school and nuns over a student’s suicide. “We strongly condemn the attack based on the suicide of a 10th class student in the school premises after her exams,” ArchbishopContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Chandigarh, April 2, 2019: An inquiry has been ordered into a Catholic priest’s allegations that the police who had raided his residence have not disclosed the full amount of cash seized from him. Punjab’s Director General of Police Dinkar Gupta on April 1 marked an inquiryContinue Reading