By Irudhaya Jothi Bankura, Oct 16, 2024: The World Food Day, celebrated every year on October 16, marks the founding of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in 1945. The theme for this year, “Right to Food for a Better Life and a Better Future,” calls attention toContinue Reading
By Virginia Saldanha Mumbai, Oct 15, 2024: Matthew 7:3-5, came to mind when I read extracts from Archbishop Gabriele Caccia’s speech on October 9 at the third committee of the 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly, reported in Vatican News. “For a just society to thrive, it isContinue Reading
By chhotebhai Kanpur, Oct 15, 2024: Back in 2000 Arun Shourie wrote a book “Harvesting Souls – Missionaries, their designs and claims.” It was a condemnation of everything remotely connected with missionaries. In the Indian context it was about our Christian presence. For those who came in late this bookContinue Reading
By Kampan Chinnam Guwahati, Oct 14, 2024: The 37th annual conference of Church law experts began October 14 with an appeal from an archbishop to correctly understand the canons to serve the Church better. “Canonists need to have the correct understanding of the canons to assist dioceses and major superiors,”Continue Reading
By George Kannanthanam Bengaluru, Oct 14, 2024: If Ratan was a Catholic, we would have made him ‘Saint Ratan Tata.’ Does anything prevent the Church from making him Saint? It is time to reconsider our views. Sainthood is an acceptance of a person’s life as an example to others. RatanContinue Reading
By George Kommattam Guwahati, Oct 14, 2024: Lalhriatpuii says that the time she spent in Centre for Development Initiative has transformed her life. “All that I learned from here has given me hope,” says the young girl from Tualbungin Mizoram, a state in northeastern India. Lalhriatpuii (people in Mizoram goesContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Shillong, October 14, 2024: Christian Brother Eric Steve D’Souza, a revered educator who taught Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan and Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad Sangma, died, in Goa, at the age of 74. The death occurred at 1:20 pm on October 13 at Shanti Niwas (aContinue Reading
By M L Satyan Coimbatore, Oct 12, 2024: Every day news headlines, both in print and digital media, give us terrible shocks. News about murders, robberies, human trafficking, cheatings, corruption, atrocities on women, sectarian violence, caste-based discrimination, abuse of nature and natural resources, and delayed justice raise many questions inContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Stockholm, Oct 11, 2024: The 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to South Korean author Han Kang “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.” Mats Malm, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy’s Nobel Committee, announced theContinue Reading
Fr. C. M. Paul Darjeeling, October 10, 2024: Salesian College Sonada alumni bishops started and ended the day’s deliberations lighting up hope for Don Bosco ,mission for next 100 years. They were participating at the 3-day National seminar on Salesian Mission from October 9 to 12 marking 100 years ofContinue Reading
