By M L Satyan Bengaluru, July 2, 2023: I had an opportunity to conduct training for teachers in three Catholic schools under the diocese of Daltonganj in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand June 12-21 — Peter’s English Medium School, Barikhajuri (Garhwa district), St. Claret School, Barwadih (Latehar district) andContinue Reading
By chhotebhai Kanpur, July 1, 2023: I have received several anxious queries about the attack on a church in Kanpur. A video of the same is going viral. In view of the above I am constrained to place whatever information I have before you. Location: This incident took place onContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporters Mumbai, July 1, 2023: At least 26 people were charred to death and seven others wounded in the early hours of July 1 when a private bus caught fire on an express way in Maharashtra’s Buldhana district. The accident took place at 1:26 am between DusarbidContinue Reading
By M K George Rome, June 30, 2023: ‘A shrinking space for dissent’ was the title of a report in the New York Times on the protest of the Olympic women wrestlers in India. As the protesters were forced out of New Delhi’s main protest site, Jantar Mantar, it ‘highlightedContinue Reading
By Pervez Bari Bhopal, June 29, 2023: Five organizations of the survivors of the 1984 Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal have congratulated researchers who have vindicated the gas victims’ stand on the magnitude and long-term consequences of the disaster. The recently published scientific study on the health impact of theContinue Reading
By Agnes Aineah Nairobi, June 29, 2023: Sister Gloria Cecilia Narváez Argoti, a Catholic missionary abducted in the west African country of Mali, describes her five-year-captivity as “spiritually transformative” and a blessing in her life. The Colombian nun was abducted in February 2017 in Southern Mali by what was laterContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, June 29, 2023: Pope Francis on June 29 appointed Father Benny Varghese Edathattel as the second bishop of Itanagar, one of the two Catholic dioceses in the northeastern Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh, once a forbidden land for Christians. The Pope had also acceptedContinue Reading
By Isaac Gomes Kolkata, June 28, 2023: Christians from various denominations have come together around the tomb of Saint Mother Teresa of Kolkata to pray for peace in Manipur, a northeastern Indian state where ethnic violence has raged for the past two months. The Commission for Ecumenism under the ConferenceContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Jabalpur, June 28, 2023: The Madhya Pradesh high court June 28 ordered the state police to demolish a boundary wall they built seven days ago that blocked access to a Catholic school. A single bench of Justice Sanjay Dwivedi also directed the police to make immediateContinue Reading
By Rose Maria (Achu) Kochi, June 27, 2023: We hear a lot about Christians indulging in “forced conversion.” Those who propagate that theory seem to say: “Let those who have seen or experienced wait, let those who have heard, speak.” I have nothing to say to such people Allow meContinue Reading
