By Matters India Reporter Mumbai, Dec 1, 2021: Here is a statement issued by the Catholic Press Association at the end of its national convention. We, the members and collaborators of the Indian Catholic Press Association (ICPA), gathered for its 26th National Convention of Christian Journalists on December 1, 2021Continue Reading
By Felix Anthony Mumbai, Dec 1, 2021: The Indian Catholic Press Association (ICPA) on December 1 expressed deep concern over the media’s failure to become the watchdog of governance in the country. Media, the fourth pillar of democracy has failed in its sacred duty of scrutinizing the government’s policies andContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, Dec 1, 2021: The Franciscan Immaculatine Sisters congregation says police and autopsy reports indicate suicide as the cause of one of its members’ death in the northern Indian state of Punjab. Sister Mary Mercy was found hanging at 6 am on November 30 inContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kochi, Dec. 1, 2021: The Kerala High Court on December 1 reduced the duration of jail term of a former Catholic priest, who was convicted for raping and impregnating a teenager. The bench of Justice Narayana Pisharoty heard the appeal of Robin Vadakkumchery against the 20-yearContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, Dec 1, 2021: The Catholic Church in Asia has mourned the death of an Indian priest who it says had played a significant role in evangelization and transformed the lives of many in the region. Father Jacob Theckanath, a former executive secretary of the OfficeContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi: A Catholic nun was found hanging from the window of her convent chapel in Faridkot, a town in the the northern Indian state of Punjab. A message from the Bishop’s House in Jalandhar says Sister Mary Mercy died November 30, but did not giveContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Mumbai, Nov 30, 2021: A Catholic priest, who danced and used Indian classical music to bring the message of Christ to millions, died November 30 in Mumbai, western India. He was 77. Divine Word Father Charles Vas, a legend in Hindi liturgical hymns, was ailing forContinue Reading
By Varghese Alengaden Indore, Nov 30, 2021: Bishops and priests have been teaching about the sacredness of Holy Mass and have made it central to all church functions. The table fellowship which Jesus held as a farewell fellowship dinner was distorted as a complicated cult after the Jewish tradition. ThroughoutContinue Reading
By F. M. Britto Parsahi, Nov 30, 2021: “We have come to be prayed over, Father,” reverently pleaded a strange couple standing at my entrance. The couple’s sight produced compassion in my heart. The man stood without any footwear, wore worn out clothes, had no money even for a haircutContinue Reading
By Irudhaya Jothi Agartala, Nov 29, 2021: Bishop Lumen Monteiro of Agartala has completed 25 years as the first prelate of the northeastern state of Tripura, once a land of tension between tribals and Bengalis. The only Holy Cross bishop in India shared with Jesuit Father Irudhaya Jothi of MattersContinue Reading
