By Matters India Reporter Kollam, Dec 31, 2024: A court in Kerala, southern India, has summoned a Catholic priest, who allegedly used a sermon to defame some parishioner. The parishioners had reportedly called for transparency in the parish accounts. Father Joseph Kadavil, former parish priest of St Augustine Church, Thalamukalil,Continue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Thaliparamba, Dec 31, 2024: Sister Francis Alayatil, the first woman ambulance driver in the southern Indian state of Kerala, died on December 30 at the age of 74. The member of Dina Sevana Sabha (Servants of the Poor) died at St Anjela Home in Pattuvam, aContinue Reading
By Roy Alex Mannar, Sri Lanka, Dec 30, 2024: The week after Christmas becomes a time of stocktaking, examining the highs and lows of the past year, and setting hopes and resolutions for the year ahead. This has always been my customary approach, but my perspective was profoundly challenged thisContinue Reading
By Sujata Jena Bhubaneswar, Dec 27, 2024: A wave of violence against Christians in Odisha, eastern India, has raised alarm over citizens’ religious freedom guaranteed by the country’s Constitution. The latest incident occurred on December 26 in the Gabardhanpur village of Balasore district, where the members of the New LifeContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, Dec 26, 2024: Manmohan Singh, who pulled India from the brink of bankruptcy and made it one of the fastest growing economies in the world, died on December 26 in New Delhi. Singh, the 13th prime minister of India, died at 9:45 pm in AllContinue Reading
By Suresh Mathew New Delhi, Dec 26, 2024: Christmas celebrations were disrupted by violent incidents across India. Reports of attacks on Christians have come from Manipur in northeastern India, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Punjab in the north, and Kerala, south. The violence was allegedly carried out by rightwing Hindu groupsContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, Dec 23, 2024: Narendra Modi created history on December 23 when he became the first Indian prime minister to visit the headquarters of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI) in New Delhi. The prime minister took part in the Christmas celebrations hosted by theContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, Dec 20, 2024: The head of the Syro-Malabar Church has set up an eight-member special tribunal to address the “ongoing disciplinary issues” in the Ernakulam-Angamaly archdiocese. “The Church resorts to judicial procedures only after exhausting avenues of mercy, love, and advice. The tribunal is empoweredContinue Reading
By M L Satyan Coimbatore, Dec 20, 2024: Recently Capuchin Father Suresh Mathew, former editor of the Indian Currents weekly and secretary of the Indian Catholic Press Association, has written an open letter to the president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India. I wish to highlight certain important pointsContinue Reading
RJ Wang Lama Darjeeling, Dec. 18, 2024: The first college based community radio of Darjeeling Hills marked its 9th birthday with its listeners from a remote tea garden village. Operating from Salesian College Autonomous Sonada, Radio Salesian is a venture of Kolkata Salesians with its claim to be the onlyContinue Reading
