By Jacob Peenikaparambil Indore, March 27, 2023: When Mahatma Gandhi died, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru said, “The light has gone out of our lives.” At the unexpected death of Father Varghese Alengaden, all his dear ones, friends, admirers and well-wishers feel that a shining light has gone out of their lives.Continue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Morena, March 26, 2023: A Catholic school in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh has been sealed and its principal arrested after an investigation team found objectionable materials in the premises. A Church official in the state, who refused to be identified, told Matters IndiaContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, March 26, 2023: Father Varghese Alengaden, founder of a holistic spiritual movement to transform India with the Gandhian principles and advocate of a new way of presenting Christ’s message, died March 26 in Indore, Madhya Pradesh. The death occurred at 9 am in Robert NursingContinue Reading
By Purushottam Nayak Bhubaneswar, March 25, 2023: Kandhamal Human Rights Awards for activists and groups in defence of human rights, democracy and secularism in India were presented March 23 at Bhubaneswar, capital of the eastern Indian state of Odisha. The Award for individual category has gone to Shakil Ahmed, aContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, March 25, 2023: Pope Francis on March 25 promoted Auxiliary Bishop John Rodrigues of Bombay as the new bishop of Pune. The 56-year-old prelate succeeds Bishop Thomas Dabre of Pune, who resigned from the post as he had already crossed the mandatory retirement ageContinue Reading
By Thomas Scaria Mangaluru, March 24, 2023: Maria was 9 and a fourth grader in a convent school when she tested positive for HIV. She had lost her mother when she was just 3; her father, also an HIV patient, died last month in February. Maria (name changed) recalled herContinue Reading
By Felix Anthony Guwahati, March 23, 2023: A two-day summit of delegates from 15 dioceses of northeastern India stressed the important roles women play in society. “It is time that we stressed the equal importance of women in society, family and in the Church,” said Archbishop John Moolachira of Guwahati,Continue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Gandhinagar, March 23, 2023: The head of the Catholic Church in Gujarat has urged the state Chief Minister Bhupendrabhai Patel to take immediate and stringent action against those who have insulted the Pope and Catholic priests and nuns. The March 21 letter from Archbishop Thomas IgnatiusContinue Reading
By P A Chacko Sahibganj, March 21, 2023: The UN proclamation of March 21as the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination calls on all people, communities and nations to respect people as human beings and not to judge people according to color, caste, creed or community. The inhumanContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kanpur, March 21, 2022: A delegation of Christians of Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh on March 21 met city Police Commissioner P. Jogdand regarding a spate of accusations and arrests for alleged forcible conversions. The UP Prohibition of Unlawful Conversions of Religion Act 2021 aims to stopContinue Reading
