By Vipin Vayalil Mananthavady, Oct 27, 2022: The province chapter of Mananthavady Norbertines has elected Father Jose Murickan as its ninth provincial. The election on October 19 was presided over by Abbot General Jos Wouters. Abbot Marcus Champia from the Norbertine Abbey of Jamtara was the second official of theContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, Oct 28, 2022: The body of a Capuchin priest was recovered five days after he was drowned in the Godavari River in the southern Indian state of Telangana. “We have found the body of Tony Pullattukalayil (earlier reported as Pulladen) at 11:10 pm,” says aContinue Reading
By Purushottam Nayak Kandhamal, Oct 28, 2022: Kandhamal Collector Ashis Ishwar Patil has promised to comply with a court order to give compensation to a kin of a Catholic priest, who died during the 2008 anti-Christian violence. “I have received the High Court Order and asked some clarifications and documents,”Continue Reading
By Saji Thomas Kochi, Oct 27, 2022: A book narrating a legal battle by six nuns with an archdiocese over a decades-long property dispute exposes the underbelly of the church hierarchy, say people who have followed the case. “Like the story of David and Goliath, these simple sisters took onContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Guwahati, Oct 27, 2022: The police in Assam on October 27 deported three Swedish nationals for violating visa norms by allegedly indulging in conversion-related activities in the northeastern Indian state. They were also fined US$500 each before they were deported around 3 pm, Allen Brooks, spokespersonContinue Reading
By Chacko Antony Sahibganj, Oct 27, 2022: Soul searching queries like, “Whither Kerala Church?” Or “Is it withering away?” are troubling many Christians in and outside Kerala. I am one of them. As a Keralite, I was born in the Syro-Malabar Church. As a teenager in 1950s, while serving asContinue Reading
By Felix Anthony Bangalore, Oct 26, 2022: The Public Relation ministry of the Church is not for creating sensationalism at the expense of accuracy, says Archbishop Peter Machado of Bangalore. The prelate was speaking at a training program for Church public relations officers, organised by the media apostolate of ConferenceContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, Oct 27, 2022: The Capuchins in India have intensified their prayers as the body a friar who was drowned in the Godavari River remains untraced even after five days. Father Tony Simon Pulladen and seminarian Brother Bijo Thomas Palampurackal were taking bath in the riverContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, Oct 27, 2022: The Society of St Paul, an international Catholic religious congregation for men, has a new leader for its India province that comprises Great Britain and Ireland, besides India. The congregation’s superior general Father Dominic Soliman on October 24 appointed Father Joby MathewContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Vijayawada, Oct 26, 2022: A young Catholic priest has suspected to have died by suicide in the diocese of Vijayawada, southern India. A message from the Vijaywada Bishop’s House says Father Kondru Velankani Raju died at 8 pm on October 25. He was 33. “We areContinue Reading
