By Jose Kavi New Delhi, Feb 4, 2022: A Jesuit priest, who was credited with evangelizing and proselytizing naturopathy and homeopathy, died February 3 at Dindigul in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. He was 77. Father Joseph John Britto, a naturopath who was nicknamed “India’s water man,” wasContinue Reading
By Cedric Prakash Ahmedabad, Feb 3, 2022: On all counts February 4, 2019, was a memorable day for the world! On that day, Pope Francis and the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, Ahmad al-Tayyib, met in Abu Dhabi, and together signed the historic and pathbreaking document entitled ‘Human fraternity for worldContinue Reading
By Mathew John New Delhi, Jan 3, 2022: Let me straightaway get it off my chest. My faith in my religion has waxed and waned, oscillating from fervent belief to deep skepticism. Much like the life-long smoker, I have given it up myriads of times and then inevitably returned toContinue Reading
By Sujata Jena Bhubaneswar, Feb 3, 2022: A Catholic parish was reopened for the public after 22 years in the eastern Indian state of Odisha with the help of the civil authorities. The Chandiput parish of the diocese of Berhampur was closed after a priest refused to accept his transferContinue Reading
By Purushottam Nayak, Simonbadi, Feb 3, 2022: Three survivors of the worst anti-Christian violence in modern India have been ordained as Capuchin priests. Bishop Aplinar Senapati of Rayagada February 1 ordained Deacons Surya Kanth Mallick, Alphonse Kumar Balliarsingh and Ajay Balliarsingh at Mary Mata Parish, Simonbadi in Odisha state’s KandhamalContinue Reading
By Felix Anthony Bandra, Feb 3, 2022: A studio chapel was blessed and consecrated in the provincial house of the Society of St Paul in Mumbai’s Bandra suburb. Auxiliary Bishop John Rodrigues of Bombay blessed and inaugurated the chapel on January 28 in the presence of the Pauline Family membersContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Bengaluru, Feb 2, 2022: Pope Francis on February 2 appointed Monsignor Thomas J Netto as the new head of the Trivandrum Latin rite archdiocese. The Pope has also accepted the resignation of Archbishop M Calist Soosa Pakiam, who headed the archdiocese since February 2, 1990. TheseContinue Reading
By Isaac Harold Gomes Kolkata, Jan 3, 2022: When federal Minister of Finance Nirmala Sitharaman presented the Union Budget in the Parliament February 1, she announced, “Our government has comprehensively revamped schemes of the Ministry of Women and Child Development such as Mission Shakti, Mission Vatsalya, Saksham Anganwadi and PoshanContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Indore, Feb 1, 2022: A three-day global convention ended February 1 in the central Indian city of India with a clarion call to make peace building a priority for individuals and organizations. Peace building cannot be left to politicians and governments, and each individual should takeContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Bengaluru, Jan 31, 2022: The government of Karnataka on January 31 conferred a Catholic center with the best NGO award for working among leprosy affected people in the southern Indian state. Sumanahalli (the village of good heart) Society, started by Bangalore archdiocese 45 years ago, wasContinue Reading
