By Matters India Reporter Rome, April 21, 2019: Consolata Sister Eugenia Bonetti, who wrote the Way of the Cross to pray at Rome’s Colosseum on Good Friday, says it helped highlight sorrows of women, youth and those without hope. “I found it as an opportunity to bring to the Colosseum,Continue Reading
Matters India Reporter Mumbai, April 21, 2019: Cardinal Oswald Gracias, head of the Catholic Church in India, on April 21 expressed anguish over the bomb blasts in Sri Lanka. He rang his counterpart in Sri Lanka, Cardinal Ranjith Malcolm, to commiserate and said the Church in India “deeply saddened andContinue Reading
By Jacob Peenikaparambil Indore, April 21, 2019: An Indore-based movement of value education for peace has helped hundreds of Christians to rediscover Jesus and reinvent themselves and their works in the past one decade. “My expectation of having a deeper encounter with Jesus and understanding his mission and recommitting myselfContinue Reading
Vatican City, April 21, 2019: Pope Francis on April 21 expressed his sadness at the deadly bomb attacks in Sri Lanka and said he stood with the victims of “such cruel violence.” The pontiff told the thousands of people who gathered on St Peter’s Square to hear his Easter SundayContinue Reading
Colombo, April 21, 2019: At least 207 people were killed and more than 450 wounded on April 21 when eight explosions hit churches and hotels in and around the Sri Lankan capital of Colombo. Sri Lanka declared curfew after the eighth blast was reported in Colombo. A while earlier, theContinue Reading
By Matters India reporter Rome, April 19, 2019: Pope Francis has appointed a Salesian nun as a State Councilor to Vatican City State. Sister Alessandra Smerilli, a member of the Daughter of Mary Help of Christians, is a professor of political economy at the Pontifical Faculty of Educational Sciences “Auxilium.”Continue Reading
By Bill Gates Can goats empower women? In one of the poorest areas of India, they already are. This is thanks to a new team of health workers who are training rural women how to gain financial independence by raising healthier goats. The health workers are goat nurses known asContinue Reading
By Apoorvanand New Delhi, April 19, 2019: When I left home the other day and made the short walk to the faculty building where I teach, the roads were strangely calm. Not seeing the usual morning jostle between e-rickshaws, I felt something must be amiss. The only sound was theContinue Reading
By Nirmala Carvalho Mumbai, April 19, 2019: Catholics in Mumbai reflected on the abuse scandal facing the Church during a Via Crucis in the western Indian city’s historically-Christian Bandra neighborhood. More than a thousand people attended the event at St. Andrew’s College, which focused on the “Scandals of the Cross.”Continue Reading
Johannesburg, April 19, 2019: Thirteen people were killed and at least 16 were wounded when the roof of a church collapsed during Maundy Thursday Mass in South Africa. The accident happened on April 18 evening in the town of Dlangubo, north of Durban, an eastern city in South Africa. HeavyContinue Reading