By Matters India Report New Delhi, Jan 22, 2022: An Indian Catholic priest serving Ethiopia as a missionary was released January 22, a day after an armed gang kidnapped him, according to information reaching the Indian capital. Father Joshua Edakadambil of the Order of the Imitation of Christ, or BethanyContinue Reading
By Cedric Prakash Ahmedabad, Jan 22, 2022: For the people of El Salvador, January 22 will be more than just a red-letter day. Three of their sons, Jesuit Father Rutilio Grande and his two lay associates — 72-year-old Manuel Solorzano and 15-year-old Nelson Rutilio Lemus (and Italian Franciscan missionary FatherContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Thanjavur, Jan 21, 2022: A Catholic nun was arrested in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu after a 17-year-old girl died by suicide. The girl took poison January 9 at her hostel at Michaelpatti in Thanjavur district, and died 10 days later. Sister Sahaya Mary,Continue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, Jan 21, 2022: The head of India’s more than 125,000 Catholic religious has urged Cardinal Oswald Gracias to reach out to the survivor nun and her supporters in the recently concluded rape case. “While these are issues that require lengthy discussions and procedure, we wouldContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, Jan 19, 2022: Activists who work at grassroots level seem surprised at the federal government’s admission in the Supreme Court that no state has reported starvation deaths. “Dalits, Adivasis and minorities die of starvation when the Supreme Court was told no starvation death hasContinue Reading
By Don Aguiar Mumbai, Jan 21, 2022: When a society denies human rights to some of its people it introduces a corruption that will rot its way through other people and institutions. Equally where corruption of any kind spreads it will soon eat away at human rights. Human rights areContinue Reading
By Dr. George Jacob Kochi, Jan 21, 2022: The world number one male tennis player Novak Djokovic was recently deported from Australia, where he had arrived to defend the Australian Open title for record tenth time, and to bag his 21st Grand Slam title. He was deported to native SerbiaContinue Reading
By F. M. Britto Raipur, Jan 21, 2022: The invitation from the parish priest to participate in the golden jubilee celebration of Pithora parish in my Raipur archdiocese delighted me. After my priestly ordination in May 1979, then Diocesan Administrator Pallottine Monsignor Francis Werner Hunold appointed me the assistant parishContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, Jan 20, 2022: Support and sympathy for a Catholic nun continue to pour in even a week after a court in Kerala dismissed her case against a bishop. Additional District and Sessions Court Judge G. Gopakumar on January 14 acquitted Bishop Franco Mulakkal ofContinue Reading
By Robancy A Helen Chennai, Jan 20, 22: A social activist from Tamil Nadu, southern India, has received this year’s Raoul Wallenberg Prize, a prestigious award given by the European Council. The ceremony took place in France and Arokiasamy Vincent Raj, popularly known as Evidence Kathir, received the award onlineContinue Reading
