By Matters India Reporter Bengaluru, March 30, 2022: A renowned Asian theologian says the synodal process now underway in the Catholic Church should prepare it to become relevant in the third millennium and respond to modern challenges. Synodality reflects how the Church’s life and mission should adapt to the modernContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Pilar, March 30, 2022: Young people from different religions studying in ten colleges of Goa recently came together to dialogue and build solidarity. The March 26-27 interfaith program titled “Yuva Sadbav” (youth goodwill) aimed at fostering interfaith relations and communal harmony, Father Lawrence Fernandes, the organizer,Continue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kochi, March 30, 2022: A Catholic nun on March 30 filed an appeal in the Kerala High Court against a bishop’s acquittal in a rape case. Kottayam’s Additional District and Sessions Court Judge G. Gopakumar on January 14 acquitted Bishop Franco Mulakkal of Jalandhar in theContinue Reading
By Stanislaus Alla New Delhi, March 30, 2022: The Church in the undivided Andhra Pradesh on March 30 mourned the death of Bishop Mathew Cheriankunnel, who had sacrificed his life for Telugu people. The first bishop of Nalgonda diocese died in the afternoon of March 30 in the regional houseContinue Reading
By Jessy Joseph New Delhi, March 29, 2022: A diocese in the southern Indian state of Kerala is outraged after some miscreants broke into a chapel and desecrated sacred Hosts kept inside a tabernacle. While the diocese of Cochin views the incident as part of hate activities spreading in Kerala,Continue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, March 29, 2022: Dalit Christians on March 29 urged the apostolic nuncio to revoke the appointment of Bishop Francis Kalist of Meerut as the new archbishop of Pondicherry-Cuddalore. Led by the Dalit Christian Liberation Movement, hundreds of people protested in Chennai, capital of the southernContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, March 29, 2022: The death of a Catholic bishop in a road accident in central India three years ago is making news again after his family demanded a federal probe. Claramma Constatine, a younger sister of the Bishop Thomas Thennatt says they want the probeContinue Reading
Matters India Reporter Karjat, March 29, 2022 : Salesian province of Mumbai is offering nature walks and free counseling to people of all faiths on every Friday of the year since the beginning of lent this year. Pilgrims are also welcomed daily during the Lent which started on March 2Continue Reading
By Jessy Joseph New Delhi, March 28, 2022: The newly elected leader of northern India’s first Catholic religious congregation for men says his priorities include fostering unity and missionary zeal among his people and bringing a movement of indigenized Catholicism to mainstream society. “Our community life is not perfect. SomeContinue Reading
By LiCAS.news Manila, March 28, 2022: An estimated three million Filipino families, or 11.8 percent of Filipino families, experienced involuntary hunger in the last quarter of 2021. A survey done by pollster Social Weather Stations (SWS) shows an 11.8-percent hunger rate in December 2021, higher than the 10 percent, orContinue Reading
