By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, Jan 31, 2022: A Dominican priest was stabbed to death in Vietnam and a Protestant pastor was shot dead in Pakistan on the same day. Father Giuse (Joseph) Trần Ngọc Thanh was killed in a knife attack in a mission area in Vietnam onContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, Jan 31, 2022: A 27-year-old woman, who died fighting cancer, is emerging as a possible saint from India, with people seeking her intercession for modern wayward youth. Ajna George, a member of the Jesus Youth movement and an assistant professor, died January 21 in Kochi,Continue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kanpur, Jan 30, 2022: A laity group in India has urged the Vatican to extend the primary synthesis stage of the Rome Synod for another three more months. “The third wave of corona pandemic is sweeping across the world. As such it is impossible for peopleContinue Reading
By Thomas Scaria Kandy, Sri Lanka, Jan 30, 2022: Until early 2021, Salvatorian Sister Dulcie Peiris was on the forefront of a project to reconcile Sinhalese and Tamils, members of two ethnic communities in Sri Lanka that fought a bitter civil war for more than 25 years. The 1983-2009 warContinue Reading
By Saji Thomas Kottayam, Jan 30, 22: The recent acquittal of a Catholic bishop in the historic nun rape case is seen as a litmus test of the Indian Catholic Church’s efforts to end clergy abuse. The supporters of the acquitted prelate, Franco Mulakkal of Jalandhar, hail the verdict asContinue Reading
By Robancy A Helen Viruthachalam, Jan 30, 2022: Father A. Pitchaimuthu, a practitioner of Siddha medicine famous for composing the Catholic liturgy in folk style, died January 30 in Tamil Nadu, southern India. He was 82. The death of the priest, who was also an educationist, occurred at 5:30 amContinue Reading
By M L Satyan Bengaluru, Jan 29, 2022: I begin this write-up by quoting an interesting and educative WhatsApp message. “How many Indians (educated people, scholars, teachers, social/human rights activists) know that the Constitution of India was written by hand. No instrument was used to write the whole constitution. PremContinue Reading
By Don Aguiar Mumbai, Jan 28, 2022: Most secular educated and sociopolitically active Indians today know there is something called Woke (awakened) Culture or Wokeism that is sweeping politics/politicians, universities, colleges and the common man across democratic India, it is dominating new age popular culture. It reminded me of aContinue Reading
By Irudhaya Jothi New Delhi, Jan 27, 2022: Jesuit Father Lucas Rayappan, an educationist in Gujarat, died January 27 in Ahmedabad, the western Indian state’s commercial capital. A message from the Gujarat Jesuit province headquarters says the priest died at 3:55 pm at Shalby Hospital in Ahmedabad. He was 59.Continue Reading
By Sujata Jena Bhubaneswar, Jan 26, 2022: On this Republic Day, I think about how our Constitution came into effect on January 26, 1950 — a day celebrated and observed most solemnly than our Independence Day, August 15. And I pray for my country. As pre-novices, we served on FridaysContinue Reading
