By Matters India Reporter Patna, August 17, 2019: Students and staff of Patna’s St Xavier’s College of Management and Technology on August 17 offered floral tributes to India’s “Mountain Man” on his 12th death anniversary. Dashrath Manjhi, a daily wage laborer, got the title after carving a path through aContinue Reading
By Fr. Saturnino Dias Every year, August 4, we celebrate the feast of St. John Mary Vianney, the patron saint of priests serving as pastors. We also celebrate Pastors’ Day in the parishes to appreciate the good work our priests do in the Parishes of our Archdiocese. For us priests,Continue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Mananthavady, August 16, 2019: A Catholic nun in Kerala has appealed to the Pontifical Congregation for the Oriental Churches against her dismissal from a congregation on disciplinary grounds. “I’m very afraid… they are killing me little by little, trying to take away all my happiness,” SisterContinue Reading
Mumbai, August 16, 2019: Bollywood actor Madhavan Balaji Ranganathan, popularly known as R. Madhavan, says he respects all religions as his own and that he has the good fortune to pray at every darga, gurudwara and church when a temple was not around. The 49-year-old actor was responding to aContinue Reading
Kozhikode, August 16, 2019: A 43-year-old man of Kozhikode’s Mukkom village was arrested for allegedly divorcing his wife through instant triple talaq. The suspect was arrested on August 15 by the Mukkom police following a warrant issued by the Thamarassery Judicial First Class Magistrate Court. The woman had approached theContinue Reading
By C V Joseph Bengaluru, August 16, 2019: Archbishop Peter Machado of Bangalore on August 16 convened an emergency meeting of various organizations of the archdiocese to review the flood situation in Karnataka and plan relief and rehabilitation. The archdiocese has taken a series of decisions to raise the requisiteContinue Reading
By Ruth Mathen Medan, August 16, 2019: Mathews George Chunakara, an Indian, has been reelected the general secretary of the Christian Conference of Asia (CCA). Archbishop Willem T P Simarmata, the CCA moderator, announced that the conference’s executive committee had unanimously voted to re-elect Chunakara for a second term. SimarmataContinue Reading
Chennai, August 16, 2019: With pre-testing for Census 2021 currently underway, a political party in Tamil Nadu has called for the enumeration of Christians and Muslims of Dalit origin in the Scheduled Caste list. D. Ravikumar of Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK, Liberation Panthers Party) has reiterated its demand that DalitContinue Reading
By Joshy Jacob Vazhappilly Hyderabad, August 16, 2019: Father Thomas Pandippilly, a member of Carmelites of Mary Immaculate (CMI), martyred for Christ 11 years ago, is remembered for his commitment to mission. Born in Kerala, Thomas joined the CMIs in 1987 and was ordained a priest in 2002. He wasContinue Reading
By Lissy M Panaji, August 16, 2019: When floods ravaged several parts of India, two persons emerged as ‘heroes’ overnight. Both of them did not expect anything in return. They did what they had been doing in life, very casually, spontaneously. A group of students was moving around Broadway inContinue Reading