By Patrick Hansda New Delhi, Oct 6, 2022: Caritas India, the social development arm of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI), has launched a yearlong programs to mark its diamond jubilee. Although the foundation day was on October 1, the agency opened the jubilee programs with enthusiasm two daysContinue Reading
By M K George Rome, Oct 6, 2022: In one of the boldest and most lucid articulations on the Kerala Catholic ‘friendship with the BJP,’ Father Kuriakose Mundadan (Satyadeepam September 29, 2022) described it as BJP fishing in troubled waters. His analysis is simple and straightforward. With the knowledge thatContinue Reading
By Thomas Scaria Mangaluru, Oct 6, 2022: An Indian Catholic nun involved in rehabilitation of war victims in Ukraine has sent prayer requests as the country is under the shadow of a nuclear war. Sister Ligi Payyappilly, who has been working in Ukraine for the past two decades, sent aContinue Reading
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
