By Matters India Reporter Bengaluru, April 25, 2022: Apostolic Nuncio to India Archbishop Leopold Girelli has urged the Indian Catholics to speak up for the rights of all minority groups in the country. “In this kind of struggle, if you want to call it that, we should remember that weContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, April 25, 2020: Civil rights groups will join the Jesuits to organize special programs in various parts of India to pay tribute on the 85th birth anniversary of Father Stan Swamy, modern apostle of justice and truth. Father Swamy, Jesuit social activist, died JulyContinue Reading
By Varghese Alengaden Indore, April 25, 2022: Recently the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has dropped from its course content chapters on ‘democracy and diversity.” The board has also dropped many other important topics from its course such as several chapters related to Mughal Empire and Islam. ‘Unity inContinue Reading
By Thomas Scaria Aluva, April 22, 2022: Father Kuriakose Kachiramattom, the founder director of the nationally famous Christian music troupe – Angel Voice Gospel Music Group — died April 22. He was 79. The death occurred in the afternoon at Lissie Hospital in Ernakulam, Kochi. Father Kachiramattom belonged to KothamangalamContinue Reading
By Ligi Payyappilly Mukachevo, April 22: What is it to live Good Friday in the war-torn Ukraine? Sister Ligi Payyappilly, a Catholic nun from India’s Kerala state, shares her experience of the war from her mission in Mukachevo, a city in western Ukraine. “This war has become our Good Friday,”Continue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Udaipur, April 21, 2022: Emeritus Bishop Joseph Pathalil of Udaipur died April 14 after prolonged illness. He was 85. After his funeral on April 19, the diocesan officials recovered two letters from his possessions: one addressed to his relatives in Kerala and another to his priests.Continue Reading
By Thomas Scaria Mangaluru, April 21, 2022: Come September, the first women’s college on India’s western coast will admit young men as students. The Apostolic Carmel congregation started St Agnes College in Mangaluru more than a century ago to exclusively educate women. After its centenary celebrations in 2021, the collegeContinue Reading
By chhotebhai Kanpur, April 21, 2022: As soon as the Synod on Synodality 2021-2023 was announced the Indian Catholic Forum (ICF) was among the first off the blocks. It organized an online survey in English, using Google Forms. It was an attempt to gauge the pulse of the people, theContinue Reading
By Molly Fernandes Sancoale, April 21, 2022: The Planet Earth has five elements and they are well depicted in the entrance of our congregation’s headquarters in Goa. One of the elements is water where we have a little tortoise I have named ‘Tottu.’ Every time I pass by I callContinue Reading
By Lisa Zengarini and Alessandro De Carolis As fighting continues to rage in besieged Mariupol, with Ukrainian soldiers still resisting in the Azovstal steel mill complex, Ukrainian authorities on April 20 announced they hope to resume evacuation efforts to bring some 6,000 civilians out of the war-torn port city. DeputyContinue Reading
