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
By Matters India Reporter Damoh, Nov 21, 2022: Police in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh have initiated a preliminary probe into a woman’s allegation that she was paid to convert Christianity. The move came on an order from the National Commission for Women (NCW), a federal statutory bodyContinue Reading
By Irudhaya Jothi Aizawl, November 18, 2022: The Catholic Church in Mizoram on November 20 ended the celebration of the 75 years of the presence of priests in the northeastern Indian state with Cardinal Oswald Gracias hailing the Mizo society for setting an example for the rest of the country.Continue Reading
By chhotebhai Kanpur, Nov 19, 2022: By “conversion” I here mean the explicit act of baptizing a non-Christian to make such a person Christian. We know that the right-wing Hindutva brigade has always been against religious conversion, thinly veiled as “forceful conversion.” Several anti-conversion laws have been passed in variousContinue Reading
By Elvis Fernandes Pilar, Nov 19, 2022: The canonization process of Venerable Agnelo D’Souza has entered a new phase after the Congregation for the Causes of Saints began to study a miracle attributed to the saintly priest from Goa. “The process of this case has begun,” Father Nazareth Fernandes, superiorContinue Reading
By LiCAS.news November 18, 2022: A Filipino Catholic nun waves a “red card” for Qatar for alleged lack of respect for human rights and for reportedly exploiting migrant workers ahead of the World Cup that will open on November 20. In football, a “red card” is shown by a refereeContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Jabalpur, Nov 18, 2022: The Madhya Pradesh High Court has ordered the state government not prosecute inter-religious couples who got married in violation of a state law that prohibits religious conversion for the purpose of marriage. The principal bench of the high court based in JabalpurContinue Reading
By Ivin Tomy New Delhi, Nov 14, 2022: A leading Jesuit theology college in India has prepared 72 lay theologians to carry forward Christ’s mission in the world. Their graduation took place November 13 at Vidyajyoti College of Theology in Old Delhi. The college has been preparing lay theologians throughContinue Reading
