By Sujata Jena Bhubaneswar, Aug 10, 2023: Quite a few articles have been published to elucidate the role of Indian Christians in Indian freedom movement. However, little information on their struggle is available in public domain. Numerous Christians from the eastern Indian state had played an active role in theContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Margao, August 10, 2023: Catholics in Goa have expressed relief after a Catholic priest was granted anticipatory bail in a case related to his homily that mentioned a 17th century warrior king. The Sessions Court in Margao, Goa’s commercial capital, on August 8 granted bail toContinue Reading
By Isaac Gomes Kolkata, August 10, 2023: India’s opposition alliance INDIA and the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) party are now busy debating a No Confidence Motion against the federal government. The main reason for the debate for the ongoing violence in the northeastern Indian state of Manipur. The BJPContinue Reading
By M K George Rome, August 9, 2023: Walking around the streets of Rome, I have first been intrigued and then pained by small 2×2 inches plaques which carried names of Jews which said, for one instance, Paskvala Blazevic born 1920, arrested 28.12.1943, deported to KZMautbausen, (concentration camp in Austria)Continue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Mangaluru, August 9, 2023: The contribution of Jesuit Father Jerome D’Souza as one of the architects of the Indian Constitution was recalled at a function in Mangaluru, southern India. Father D’Souza (1897-1977), a native of Mangaluru, was a member of India’s Constituent Assembly that met 1946-1950Continue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Panaji, August 8, 2023: The Catholic Church in Goa has distanced itself from a layman’s call to fellow Goans to unite or be doomed. The call appeared in an article published in the August 1-15 edition of the “Renewal,” the bimonthly pastoral bulletin of the ArchdioceseContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, August 7, 2023: The return of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi to the Indian Parliament 135 days after his disqualification has reassured people’s faith in the Indian judiciary, say some Christian intellectuals. Gandhi, who represented Kerala’s Wayanad constituency in the Lok Sabha, was reinstated August 7Continue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New York, August 7, 2023: The Indian Christian community in the Tri-state area organized a vigil in front of the United Nations to pray for peace and justice in Manipur where ethnic clashes have raged since May 3. The participants of the August 5 program prayedContinue Reading
By Manju Devarapalli Hyderabad, August 7, 2023: The Telugu speaking Church in India has mourned the death of a renowned folk singer and poet, who was a major proponent of Telangana state in eastern India. Gummadi Vittal Rao, popularly known as Gaddar, died at 3 pm on July 6 atContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, August 6, 2023: The protracted liturgical controversy in the archdiocese of Ernakulam seems to get murkier as its faithful on August 6 rejected a circular on the uniform mode of celebrating Mass from the newly appointed delegate of Pope Francis. Jesuit Archbishop Cyril Vasil, whoContinue Reading
