Ram Puniyani Mumbai, April 1, 2022: Watching this movie in the theaters is a harrowing experience. It incites the negative, hateful and emotive response from majority of viewers. Someone at the end of the screening starts making the prevalent anti-Muslim slogans and hysteria takes over the theaters. It has beenContinue Reading
By Benedict Mayaki The war in Ukraine has now continued into its sixth week since it began on February 24, when Russia launched an attack on its neighbour. Thousands of civilians have been killed according to conservative estimates and about 4 million people have been forced to flee for theirContinue Reading
By Lisa Zengarini Rome, March 31, 2022: Malta was one of the first Roman colonies to convert to Christianity nearly 2,000 years ago. In fact, the origins of the Maltese Church go back to St. Paul who, according to the Acts of the Apostles (Chapters 27-28), shipwrecked on the MediterraneanContinue Reading
By Saji Thomas Kochi, March 31, 2022: The January 14 acquittal of Bishop Franco Mulakkal in a rape case involving a Catholic sister has been challenged in an appellate court by both the accuser and the prosecution. Bishop Mulakkal confirms that the government and the nun have appealed to theContinue Reading
By Robin Gomes Colombo, March 31, 2022: As Sri Lanka continues to sink hopelessly into the worst economic crisis in memory, the country’s Catholic bishops are calling for unity among politicians to save the nation from becoming a failed state. The country of some 22 million is facing its worstContinue Reading
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
