By chhotebhai Kanpur, May 15, 2023: The Assembly elections in Karnataka and the municipal ones in Uttar Pradesh are done and dusted. I had written about their significance in my earlier piece, “Andh Bhakts Abound.” My observations seem to have been on target, especially in my home state of U.P.Continue Reading
By Felix Anthony Margherita, May 15, 2023: Hundreds of young people from across Arunachal Pradesh have prayed for peace and forgiveness in Manipur, another state in northeastern India that recently witnessed unprecedented ethnic violence. Leading the candle-lit prayer for peace at the Divine Renewal Retreat Centre, Margherita, Assam, on MayContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Bengaluru, May 13, 2023: Church people in Karnataka have welcomed the results of the just concluded assembly elections in the state as a “sign of hope” and people’s “befitting response” to their dissatisfaction, fear and anger. The Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) that ruled theContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, May 13, 2023: Frustrated at the Indian Church leaders’ “lukewarm response” to attacks against Christians, an advocacy group of progressive Catholic priests and nuns has urged them to become good shepherds “who do not run away when the wolf comes to attack the sheep.” AnContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Guwahati, May 12, 2023: Archbishop Thomas Menamparampil on May 12 called for happy relationship and spiritual bondedness among people of various cultural backgrounds, traditions, religions, interests, and sensitivities in the country. This call makes intense meaning in the context of recent tragedies in Manipur where tensionsContinue Reading
By Robancy A Helen Konankuppam, May 11, 2023: Can a woman forget her nursing child, or show no compassion for the child in her womb? Even these may forget, but I will not forget you. See, I have inscribed you on the palms of my hands (Isaiah 49:15-16). These areContinue Reading
By Saji Thomas Kochi, May 11, 2023: Catholic nuns in Kerala continue to demand a ban on a controversial play two months after it was staged at an international theater festival in the southern Indian state. The play allegedly depicts them as lesbians and sexual partners of priests. “It isContinue Reading
By Purushottam Nayak Balasore, May 11, 2023: Pope Francis has appointed an Indian prelate serving Ethiopia in East Africa as the new bishop of Balasore diocese in the eastern Indian state of Odisha. The Vatican on May 10 announced the appointment of Monsignor Varghese Thottamkara, a member of the CongregationContinue Reading
By Dr George Jacob Kochi, May 10, 2923: The May 5 edition of the New Indian Express reported the story of Ashokan KM, a driver with the Indian Army. He has been working in the Defence Court in Fort Kochi after he took voluntary retirement in 1996. He is aContinue Reading
By F M Britto Raipur, May 10, 2023: More than a hundred Hindu activists forcefully entered a Catholic school in Chhattisgarh to oppose a summer catechetical camp held there for Catholic children. The intruders, who entered the Vishwadeep School campus around noon on May 7, alleged the program was meantContinue Reading
