By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, Dec 31, 2021: The Indian Catholic Forum has urged the Vatican to immediately remove Bishop K A William of Mysore who it alleges has been involved in “heinous crimes.” The call for Bishop William’s removal was first made on December 11 in a letterContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, Dec 31, 2021: The largest association of India’s Catholic lay people on December 31 urged the federal government to check targeted hate and violence to make minority communities feel safe in the country. The All India Catholic Union (AICU) says 2021 saw a “surgeContinue Reading
By F M Britto Raipur, Dec 3-, 2021: A suspended Catholic priest has become a semi-god a year after his death in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh. Hundreds people from other religions now visit “Seva Ashram” (hermitage of service), the late Father Joseph Parecattil had opened in Parsahi village.Continue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kolkata, Dec 27, 2021: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee inaugurated Cathedral Christmas Crib and ten flex panels depicting Saint Francis Assisi who initiated crib making tradition to stress love and respect for nature. “On Christmas night, the Chief Minister of West Bengal inaugurated a specialContinue Reading
By Tessy Jacob Bhubaneswar, Dec 23, 2024: I was on a telephone conversation with one of my cousins. While speaking about random issues, she mentioned that one of her neighbors was thought to have cancer, and described her pathetic circumstances. Money was her biggest concern. After a while we changedContinue Reading
By Thomas Scaria Mangaluru, Dec 23, 2021: Karnataka Legislative Assembly has passed the Anti-conversion Bill without serious resistance from the Opposition parties two days prior to Christmas. The “Karnataka Protection of Right to Freedom of Religion Bill, 2021” was tabled on December 23 which has definite clauses against any sortsContinue Reading
By K P Sasi Bengaluru, Dec 22, 2021: Members of more than 40 organizations came to the streets of Bengaluru to protest against a bill passed by the Karnataka assembly to regulate religious convention in the southern Indian state. The December 21 rally demanded the withdrawal of “the Karnataka ProtectionContinue Reading
By Vivek Joseph Hyderabad, Dec 22, 2024: A Church NGO in Hyderabad has organized a day of singing, dancing and sharing as part of its Christmas celebration for the Transgender Community in the southern Indian city. More than 200 transgender persons, their allies and activists from the city gathered atContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Junagadh, Dec 20, 2021: A Catholic parish in the western Indian state of Gujarat has decided to put on hold external celebrations of Christmas to sympathize with the families that have lost their relatives in the Covid pandemic. “This year the parish has decided not toContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, Dec 22, 2021: Gaspar Delerock and his wife Shanti in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu donated blankets for the poor in Tripura, northeast, as part of celebrating their wedding’s silver jubilee. Ammu Urimainathan sent her contribution forgoing her Christmas dress and JosephContinue Reading
