By Yogendra Yadav New Delhi, March 29, 2024: Here is a safe election forecast: 2024 is going to be the least free and fair national election in Independent India. We do not yet know if it will eventually turn out to be a seriously compromised election or a complete farce.Continue Reading
By C M Paul Shillong, March 29, 2024: Delegate for Legal Aid and former teacher of Canon Law at Sacred Heart College Mawlai Shillong Salesian Father Anthony Lendakadavil spoke to Matters India March 29 about the process the Catholic Church follows in investigating alleged Eucharistic Miracles. Father Lendakadavil says, “TheContinue Reading
Matters India Reporter New Delhi, March 28, 2024: A top court in a central Indian state on March 28 granted bail to a Catholic nun accusing of abetting the suicide of a school girl. The Bilaspur high court, the top court in Chhattisgarh state, granted bail to Carmelite Sister Mercy,Continue Reading
By Stan Alla New Delhi, March 28, 2024: During the Maundy Thursday evening service in several churches, you will witness the ‘Washing of the Feet.’ It’s wonderful and moving to watch it prayerfully, wherein a priest or a bishop bends down to wash the feet of the faithful. Maybe youContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, March 28, 2024: Catholic communicators in India have mourned the death of James Kottoor, a former editor of the Chennai-based New Leader publication and a prolific writer who helped spread the Vatican II reforms in India. Kottoor died March 27 in Kochi, Kerala, where heContinue Reading
By C.M. Paul Dimapur, March 28, 2024: Bishop James Thoppil of Kohima has intervened at the claim of a Eucharistic miracle in one of the parishes in the northeastern diocese that covers the entire state of Nagaland. The bishop’s intervention on March 27 came three days after the alleged miracleContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Imphal, March 27, 2024: The Catholic Church is observing the Holy Week with churches packed with refugees in the northeastern Indian state of Manipur where ethnic violence has raged for 11 months. Father Varghese Velickakam, vicar-general of Imphal archdiocese that covers the entire state, said theyContinue Reading
By Cedric Prakash Ahmedabad, March 27, 2024: The accreditation review of the National Human Rights Commission of India (NHRCI) is scheduled to take place in the last week of March and in the last week of April. This year, the Sub-Committee on Accreditation (SCA) of the Global Alliance of NationalContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Chennai, March 27, 2024: A sound and light program on Christ’s passion staged by a Fransalian media academy in collaboration with some parish youth has impressed many in the southern Indian city of Chennai. “My eyes were filled with tears throughout the program,” said a womanContinue Reading
By Stanislaus Alla New Delhi, March 27, 2024: Apostolic Nuncio Archbishop Leopoldo Girelli on March 26 joined prelates from the Latin and Syro-Malabar Churches to celebrate Chrism Mass at New Delhi’s Sacred Heart Cathedral. Archbishop Anil Couto was the main celebrant of the religious service that is held during theContinue Reading