By Ancie Wilfred Nagpur, July 13, 2023: Our family had just shifted to this locality in Bengaluru. During our first week here, I went to the nearest church and took membership. It is called the Our Lady of the Sacred Heart of Jesus Church. The next Sunday we attended ourContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Imphal, July 12, 2023: Manipur’s Interfaith Forum for Peace and Harmony (IFPH) has organized rally appealing for an end to the ongoing violence and for initiating dialogue between the two warring ethnic groups. Some 500 people belonging to diverse religious and faith traditions, ethnic and spiritualContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kochi, July 12, 2022: A court of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on July 12 pronounced 6 of the 11 accused guilty, 13 years after they chopped of the hand of T J Joseph, a college professor in the southern Indian state of Kerala. The courtContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, July 12, 2023: Christian community in India has suffered as many as 400 incidents of violence in the first half 2023, says the United Christian Forum, an ecumenical group. A press statement from the forum titled, “Atrocities against Christians in India increasing drastically year onContinue Reading
By M L Satyan Bengaluru, July 11, 2023: A few days ago, one of my friends shared with me a sad news. His college-going daughter was found with severe depression for almost one week. During the counselling she revealed that she was being blackmailed by her classmate. She had postedContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Hyderabad, July 11, 2023: A workshop in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad has asserted the rights and well-being of taxi drivers employed in various platforms The July 10 workshop, held at the Montfort Social Institute and organized in collaboration with the Bengaluru-based National Law SchoolContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, July 9, 2023: Although no Indian is among the 21 new cardinals named by Pope Francis on July 9, the country has a link with one of two Asians. Bishop Sebastian Francis Mechery of Penang is the new cardinal from Malaysia. The other Asian isContinue Reading
By LiCAS.news Manila, July 9, 2023: Pope Francis on July 9 announced he would hold a consistory for the creation of 21 new cardinals, including the bishops of Malaysia and Hong Kong. “I would like to announce that next 30 September, I will hold a Consistory for the appointment ofContinue Reading
The Vatican released Pope Francis’s four-day schedule for the first papal visit to Mongolia in September, where the pontiff will meet with government leaders, engage in interreligious dialogue and celebrate Mass for the country’s small Catholic population. Mongolia, a landlocked country situated between China and Russia, is home to aboutContinue Reading
By Purushottam Nayak Bhubaneswar, July 8, 2023: Christians in the eastern Indian state of Odisha seem elated that Pope Francis has created a commission for new martyrs. They hope the new commission would address their demand that the Church recognize as martyrs their people killed during the 2008 anti-Christian violenceContinue Reading
