By Irudhaya Jothi Guwahati, Sept 25, 2022: A puja committee in Salt Lake, Kolkata, has created a Durga Puja pandal (temporary shed) with the theme of Vatican City’s St. Peters Basilica. Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee inaugurated the puja pandal on Sept 23 ahead of the Mahalaya on September 25, theContinue Reading
By Purushottam Nayak Bhubaneswar, Sept 24, 2022: The Church in India has congratulated Dilip Tirkey, who was elected unopposed as the president of the Hockey Federation of India. “We extend our congratulations to Dilip Tirkey for this new top job in India. The Church of India is definitely proud ofContinue Reading
By Felix Anthony Pallam, Sept 23, 2022: A southern Indian parish has risen from the ashes of communal violence forty years ago to become a major producer of missionaries for dioceses and religious congregations across the country. The story of St Matthew’s parish “is a tale of ashes- to- glory,”Continue Reading
By George Jacob Kochi, Sept 21, 2022: National daily New Indian Express recently reported an incident which had the Kerala High Court chastise the attitude of the “new-gen” towards marriage and family. A man abandoned his wife and three daughters after nine years of marriage subsequent to an alleged affairContinue Reading
By Thomas Scaria Mangaluru, Sept 20,2022: The Karnataka government has announced that it would include teachings of the Bhagavad Gita as part of moral education in schools from December this year. B C Nagesh, the state’s primary and secondary education minister, said the government has amended its earlier proposal toContinue Reading
By chhotebhai Kanpur, Sept 19, 2022: The Synod on Synodality was kick-started in October 2021.The first phase, the national level, was to conclude by August 16 and the National Syntheses (NS) were to be sent to the Synod Secretariat at the Vatican. A communiqué from Rene Reid, Director, Catholic ChurchContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, Sept 19, 2022: The federal government’s reported move to set up a national commission to study the socioeconomic and educational status of Dalit converts to Christianity and Islam will prolong the issue of granting reservation to the poorest in the country, bemoan Christian activists.Continue Reading
Lucknow, Sept 19, 2022: Three laborers in their early 20s died after inhaling toxic fumes from unused septic tank in the Uttar Pradesh, the northern Indian state with the largest number of manual scavengers. The three were cleaning an unused tank without protective gears at the site of an under-constructionContinue Reading
Washington, Sept 18, 2022: Gunmen set a Catholic church on fire and kidnapped five priests, one nun and two lay people in western Cameroon, where a civil war has been raging since 2017. The Catholic bishops of the Bamenda Ecclesiastical Province released a statement following the September 16 attack onContinue Reading
Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Sep 17, 2022: Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, Pope Francis’ representative in Ukraine, was shot September 17 as he delivered humanitarian aid near the city of Zaporizhzhia, Vatican News reported. The report said Krajewski was not hurt. The incident happened while the Polish-born cardinal was bringing food and otherContinue Reading
