By Sujata Jena Bhubaneswar, April 24, 2024: An ashram started by a group of nuns in southern Indian town has completed 25 years promoting interfaith harmony. The Franciscan Missionaries of Mary congregation founded the Ishalaya Ashram in 2000 at Palamaner in Andhra Pradesh state in response to the Second VaticanContinue Reading
By Stanislaus Alla New Delhi, April 21, 2024: The Catholics of Warangal diocese, in the southern state of Telangana, on April 21 received a pastoral letter from Bishop Bala Udumala during the Sunday liturgy. The bishop, who is also the chairman of the Telugu Catholic Bishops’ Council’s Commission on TheologyContinue Reading
By Jessy Joseph Adilabad, April 18, 2024: Police in Telangana have arrested nine people in connection with the attack on a Catholic school in the southern Indian state, the bishop of Adilabad told Matters India April 18. Meanwhile Church groups across India have condemned a saffron-clad mob on April 16Continue Reading
By Thomas Scaria Bengaluru, April 18, 2024: Members of six women congregations have come together to empower “youth at risk” in Bengaluru, a southern Indian city with more than 3 million youth. “This is the perfect example of synodality in action as envisaged by Pope Francis,” said Apostolic Carmel SisterContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, April 18, 2024: A diocesan tribunal in Kerala will on April 20 begin the trial of a priest who had quit active parish ministry a year ag, disgusted with “the decay” in his Syro-Malabar Church. Bishop Remigiose Inchananiyil of Thamarassery on September 21, 2023, setContinue Reading
By Magimai Pragasam Trichy, April 18, 2024: A workshop organized by the Tamil Nadu Church’s online television channel has taught young people to use social media to help society. “We have to decide whether to become Good Samaritans or indifferent bystanders,” said Father Jenith Sekar, the technical manager of MadhaContinue Reading
By Jacob Peenikaparambil Indore, April 18, 2024: Ever since the BJP came to power at the center under the prime ministership of Narendra Modi, violent attacks by the Hindutva organizations on the Church personnel and institutions have been increasing. Even in the middle of elections to the Lok Sabha thereContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Adilabad, April 17, 2024: Paramilitary personnel have been deployed at a Catholic school in the southern Indian state of Telangana after right wing Hindu activists vandalized it and assaulted a priest. The attackers on April 16 accused the school management of hurting religious sentiments by questioningContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Panaji, April 17, 2024: Cardinal Filipe Neri Ferrão, archbishop of Goa-Daman, has urged his people to refrain from undertaking a pilgrimage to the Marian shrine at Velankanni in Tamil Nadu a day before the general elections in Goa. “It is universally recognized, especially in a democracy,Continue Reading
By LiCAS.news Tagaytay City, April 16, 2024: More than 30 church workers from various bishops’ conferences in Asia on April 15 ended a three-day workshop on building climate-resilient communities. The workshop, organized by the Office of Human Development – Climate Change Desk (OHD-CCD) of the Federation of Asian Bishops’ ConferencesContinue Reading