By Matters India Reporter Mumbai, Aug 30, 2023: A Catholic nun in the western Indian city of Mumbai is making ripples in the movie world with her seven-minute fiction film shot in just two days on a mobile phone. Sister Josefina Albuquerque’s zero-budget movie “D for Dumbo” tells the storyContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Pilar, Aug 29, 2023: The participants of a seminar on the “Basics of interreligious dialogue” have resolved to organize parish level programs to create awareness among the Goan Catholics about the need to interact with people of other religions. They plan to spend “quality time” withContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kochi, Aug 29, 2023: A Catholic archbishop and a priest in the southern Indian state of Kerala are set to face contempt of court proceedings for refusing to permit church marriage of a Catholic couple in violation of a court order. Justin John, a member ofContinue Reading
By chhotebhai Kanpur, Aug 29. 2023: Those on death row face the wall, before being shot in the back. Police also frisk criminals while making them face a wall. Never a pleasant experience. Even in Jerusalem the Jews face the Western or Wailing Wall, to mourn what remains of Solomon’sContinue Reading
By Stanislaus Alla New Delhi, Aug 28, 2023: Possibly, no Pope has ever visited a country that houses a little flock — about 1,500 Catholics. In modern times Pope Paul VI initiated international travels, and Saint John Paul II, during his long papacy, visited 129 countries. Since 2013, Pope FrancisContinue Reading
By P. A. Chacko Dumka, Aug 27, 2023: The ritual war fought on the Kerala terrain by the traditionalists and the progressives of the Syro-Malabar Church seems to be like the Kurukshetra war. Both sides are adamant. Each faction wants it to be a fight to the finish. The laityContinue Reading
By M L Satyan Bengaluru, Aug 26, 2023: Chandrayaan-3 was launched on July 14. The lander and rover landed near the lunar south pole region at 6:02 pm on August 23, making India the first country to successfully land a spacecraft near the lunar south pole and the fourth countryContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, Aug 26, 2023: Pope Francis on August 26 appointed Father Mathew Nellikunnel as the bishop of Gorakhpur diocese in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. The formal announcement of the appointment was done at 12 noon Italian time at the Vatican and atContinue Reading
By Thomas Scaria Kochi, Aug 26, 2023: Father Antony Poothavelil was recently installed as the vicar of Ernakulam-Angamaly archdiocese’s St Mary’s Basilica Cathedral that was closed for more than 260 days because of the ongoing liturgy dispute. The 69-year-old priest was appointed the vicar as the main church of theContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Madurai, Aug 26, 2027: At least 10 tourists from Uttar Pradesh were killed and more than 20 wounded August 26 after a stationary train coach caught fire in Madurai railway station, southern India. The fire broke out when a passenger lit a gas stove to makeContinue Reading
