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
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
