By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, Nov 27, 2022: Salesian Father Joseph Chittattukalam died of heart attack November 27 at New Delhi airport. He was 82. “With deep sorrow, I inform you that Fr. Joseph Chittattukalam went to his heavenly abode early this morning (27.11.2022). He died of a heartContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Thiruvananthapuram, Nov 24, 2022: A federal agency dealing with economic offenses has attached close to 10 million rupees of movable assets of a Christian medical college in Kerala as part of its probe into a money laundering case. A November 22 statement from the Directorate ofContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kondagaon, Nov 24, 2022: Members of eight tribal families who practice Christian faith in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh are now living in fear after people of their community thrashed them for not giving up their new faith. “We were beaten up on November 22Continue Reading
By Allen Brooks Guwahati, Nov 24, 2022: Christian leaders in northeastern India on November 24 voiced great anxiety about “alarmist news” being spread in connection with the issue of conversion. Such “painful developments” are “nothing but an effort to malign our community which has rendered yeoman service in the fieldContinue Reading
Kauai, Nov 24, 2022: The arrival of three Missionary Sisters of Mary Help of Christians from India has answered the 22-year long prayers of the parishioners and parents of a Catholic school in Hawaii for the return of nuns to their school. On October 7 their prayers were answered. TheyContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Old Goa, Nov 23, 2022: The Prison Ministry India (PMI) has urged the government and the Church to adopt concrete steps to ease the hardship of those behind bars, their families and rehabilitation of the released. “Incarceration must give every opportunity for prisoners to accept theirContinue Reading
Vatican City, Nov 23, 2022: Pope Francis has fired the entire leadership of Caritas Internationalis (CI), the Catholic Church’s worldwide charity arm, following accusations of bullying and humiliation of employees, and appointed a commissioner to run it. The move involved the executives of the Vatican-based confederation of 162 Catholic relief,Continue Reading
By Cedric Prakash Ahmedabad, Nov 22, 2022: Srinivasan Jain, the popular TV anchor with NDTV, has done a tremendous service to the Constitution of India and thereby, to the people of India. In a hard-hitting exposé on his weekly segment ‘Truth vs Hype,’ released November 19, Jain talks about theContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kochi, Nov 22, 2022: The decades-long liturgical dispute in an Eastern rite archdiocese in India has reached an “explosive stage” with the priests and faithful launching an indefinite protest against their apostolic administrator. More than 500,000 Catholics of the archdiocese of Ernakulam-Angamaly along with 460 priestsContinue Reading
By Sophie Drew London, Nov 21, 2022: An organization that tries to combat the persecution of people of faith across the globe has welcomed the news that Myanmar has released around 6,000 prisoners as part of an amnesty; 53 of them are political prisoners arrested for activism. “While we welcomeContinue Reading
