By Matters India Reporter Panaji, May 19, 2022: A former Catholic priest who had fought for Goa’s causes won a case against an illegal construction eight years after his death. Bismarque Dias, who was known as Goa’s activist priest, had protested against a string of controversial, land intensive projects acrossContinue Reading
By Purushottam Nayak Daringbadi, May 19, 2023: People in Odisha’s Kandhamal district are elated after an infant at the time of the 2008 anti-Christian violence successfully completed the state’s matriculation examination this year. “I am happy because my Lord Jesus protected me and my mother from Hindu fundamentalists during theContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, May 18, 2023: A Syro-Malabar priest has quit active parish ministry disgusted with what he says is the decay in his Oriental Catholic Church. “I have declined to accept any parish ministry and will continue to live the values of a Catholic priesthood,” Father (Thomas)Continue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, May 16, 2023: As normalcy has limped back to Manipur, Churches have taken stock of the damages they have suffered during the four-day mayhem that ravaged the northeastern Indian state. According to a list published by the Churachandpur District Christian Goodwill Church, as many asContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Rome, May 16, 2023: Caritas Internationalis has elected a Scottish layman as the secretary general of the humanitarian and development arm of the Catholic Church. Alistair Dutton has worked in the organization since 1996 and has more than 25 years of experience in the humanitarian field,Continue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, May 16, 2023: Jesuit lawyer Father Santhanam Arokiasamy on May 16 proposed a three-fold legal assistance to the victims of the recent violence in the northeastern Indian state of Manipur. Father Arokiasamy, who is the convener of the National Lawyers Forum of Priests and ReligiousContinue Reading
By Dr. George Jacob Kochi, May 16, 2023: Sandeep, undergoing deaddiction is an Upper Primary school teacher under suspension. He was taken into police custody on the night of May 9 from his house following a brawl with neighbors. The inebriated and injured Sandeep was taken by the police toContinue Reading
By indiatomorrow.net Srinagar, May 16, 2023: Shock and anger gripped Jammu and Kashmir when Kashmiri students at Government Medical College in Jammu were thrashed after an argument over the controversial movie, “‘The Kerala Story.” “We have received distressing calls from GMC Jammu that a group of Kashmiri students has beenContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Imphal, May 16, 2023: The head of the Catholic Church in Manipur has appealed for aid for the violence-hit people of the northeastern Indian state of Manipur. The Catholic Church in the Archdiocese of Imphal is pained, saddened and concerned at the situation after unprecedented violenceContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Knock, May 16, 2023: The liturgy dispute in India’s Syro-Malabar Church was raised at an annual pilgrimage to an international Eucharistic and Marian Shrine in Ireland’s Knock town. Around 4,000 Catholics attended the May 13 pilgrimage of the Syro Malabar Community living in Ireland that wasContinue Reading
