By Jose Kavi New Delhi, April 10, 2024: Catholics in India seem divided over the screening of a controversial film by a diocese in the southern Indian state of Kerala to enlighten teenagers against love jihad. A group of Catholic intellectuals, mostly those living outside Kerala, condemned the Idukki Syro-MalabarContinue Reading
By Stanislaus Alla New Delhi, April 10, 2024: Jesuit Father Ladislaus Chinnadurai, who had taught former Indian President Abdul Kalam, died at 5 pm on April 10 at Beschi Illam, Dindigul, in Tamil Nadu. He was 100. According to the Jesuit Madurai province, the funeral services will be held atContinue Reading
By Thomas Scaria. Kannur, April 10, 2024: A unique community housing project has inaugurated its first house at a village in Kerala’s Kannur district. The Project Shelter team handed over the house built with people’s participation to Adarsh on April 6, a disabled person with severe cerebral palsy, and hisContinue Reading
By Thomas Scaria Bengaluru, April 10, 2024: In the past three decades, a tiny secular institute of consecrated laywomen has changed the fate of hundreds of street children in the southern Indian city of Bengaluru. “We are only 12 members in India, and three of us work among street childrenContinue Reading
New Delhi, April 10, 2024: The Delhi High Court has stepped in to protect a 40-year-of mosque from the demolition squad of the Delhi Development Authority (DDA). The court on April 8 also issued notices to Dda and the Delhi Religious Committee after Faizyab Masjid and Madarsa filed a petitionContinue Reading
By F. M. Britto Raipur, April 10, 2024: Getting up early at 4:30 am, I rushed to the Raipur railway station to catch my train. At the station I browsed through my mobile to see at what platform my South Bihar Express (13287) arrives. Surprisingly, it said the train wasContinue Reading
By Nirmala Carvalho Mumbai, April 8, 2024: Ahead of elections in April expected to bring further gains for India’s already powerful Hindu nationalist movements, Catholic bishops have issued new guidelines for schools asking students to recite the preamble to the Indian constitution, which, among other things, guarantees “liberty of belief,Continue Reading
By Midhun J Francis Rome, April 8, 2024: The diocese of Idukki in Kerala made headlines April 7 when it screened ‘The Kerala Story,’ a controversial 2023 film, for teenagers as part of its efforts to combat “love jihad.” The film narrates the story of a group of Kerala womenContinue Reading
By Isaac Harold Gomes Kolkata, April 8, 2024: George Anthony Gomes, a first-generation entrepreneur in Kolkata’s Bengali Catholic Community was laid to rest at Lower Circular Road cemetery on April 8. He died on April 3 at the age of 87. Father Vincent Lobo was the main celebrant at theContinue Reading
By Stanislaus Alla New Delhi, April 8, 2024: The much-awaited Vatican Declaration on Human Dignity was issued on April 8 by Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernandez, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith. While the instructions on sex and gender grabbed the headlines globally, the document has severalContinue Reading