By Matters India Reporter Khandwa, Oct 5, 2022: Khandwa diocese in central India has called off its three-day annual youth convention after right wing Hindu activists waylaid vehicles carrying the participants alleging that the program was for religious conversion. The diocese in Madhya Pradesh state has been holding the conventionContinue Reading
By Sunny Sebastian Jaipur, Oct 5, 2022: They are back! The effigies of the wicked who symbolize aggression, greed, enmity and hatred, are back, ready for their trial by fire. They will surely meet their fiery end on Dussehra. They are there, Ravana, Kumbakarna and others, all lined up waitingContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kochi, Oct 4, 2022: The Archdiocese of Ernakulam-Angamaly continues to faces crisis after its apostolic administrator revoked a dispensation given to it to continue with the traditional Mass and ordered its priests to follow the Synod Mass with immediate effect. Archbishop Andrews Thazhath, the apostolic administrator,Continue Reading
By Purushottam Nayak Surada, Oct 3, 2022: The Catholic Church in the eastern Indian state of Odisha has honored to its first native priest on completing 60 years of priesthood. More than 500 people October 3 joined Father Anselm Francis Biswal in the thanksgiving Mass October 3 at at SacredContinue Reading
By Hilda Mary Bernath Peru, Oct 4, 2022: Being one with nature, we are happy to praise God the Almighty — the creator who is also our protector. We thank God by taking care of our Mother Earth, protecting and nurturing her. We praise and love God by taking careContinue Reading
By Thomas Scaria Vizhinjam, Oct 4, 2022: A fall from a bike during a rally did not deter Sister Sali Joseph from supporting fishers protesting the construction of an international port in coastal southwestern India. The fishing harbor being converted into an international seaport “has already caused severe damage toContinue Reading
By Thomas Scaria Bengaluru, Oct 4, 2022: Sumanahalli, a Church-based leprosy rehabilitation center, has celebrated 45 years of its mission in Bengaluru with an interface between the beneficiaries, partners and donors. Archbishop Peter Machado of Bangalore, who opened the program on October 2 at the Francis Xavier’s School auditorium, commendedContinue Reading
By Elvis Fernandes Pilar, Oct 3, 2022: Cardinal Filipe Neri Cardinal Ferrao, Archbishop of Goa and Daman, has ordained ten Society of Pilar seminarians as deacons. The rite of the diaconate ordination was held October 2 in the seminary’s chapel in Pilar, the headquarters of the congregation, officially known asContinue Reading
By M K George Rome, Oct 3, 2022: Many fear that India is fast moving towards being a Hindu Rashtra (nation). If that would happen, would India turn out to be another theocratic country in the world? Should we be concerned? Maybe one should begin by learning lessons from theContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Komali, Oct 2, 2022: A group of Jamatia tribe on October 2 pulled down a Catholic prayer shed a Komali village in the northeastern Indians state of Tripura The incident happened when some 15 Catholic families were attending the Sunday prayer service in the shed. “TheContinue Reading
