By Matters India Reporter Thiruvananthapuram, Nov 28, 2022: The police in Kerala have registered a case against a Catholic archbishop, his auxiliary and 48 others in connection with violence during a protest against an under construction international seaport in the southern Indian state. The police and protesters clashed at VizhinjamContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kochi, Nov 27, 2022: The liturgy dispute in a Catholic archdiocese in Kerala took an ugly turn November 27 when its administrator was prevented from forcibly entering the cathedral church to offer Sunday Mass. Archbishop Andrews Thazhath, the administrator, came to St Mary’s Basilica Cathedral ChurchContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Gorakhpur, Nov 27, 2022: Cultural activists working for peace in northern India have organized a rally on harmony and reconciliation amid hate messages and violence against Christians, Muslims, Dalits, Tribals and women. The five-day rally that covered the eastern region of Uttar Pradesh state concluded NovemberContinue Reading
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
