By Gepsina Fernandes Mumbai, Oct 14, 2021: I would like to share the wonders Lord Jesus has worked in my life. I thank God for the innumerable opportunities He has given me to praise Him and to testify to His goodness and faithfulness in my life. With Him by myContinue Reading
By chhotebhai Kanpur, Oct 14, 2021: In my previous piece (Open Letter to the Bishops of India on Synodality) I wrote about some of the salient features of Synodality, for which Pope Francis began the process in Rome October 10. It will culminate, again in Rome, in October 2023. ThisContinue Reading
Rome, Oct 13, 2021: After almost 5 years as a captive of an Al Qaeda-linked Islamist group in Mali in West Africa, a Colombian nun has been freed. Sister Gloria Cecilia Narvaez Argoti was flown from Bamako, Mali’s capital, to Rome where Vatican Media posted photos of her being greetedContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, Oct. 13, 2021: Jesuit Father Thomas J. Reese, a leading American journalist, suggests that Pope Francis should send Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg as his representative to the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference. The Conference of Parties, or COP26, is scheduled to meetContinue Reading
Chiang Mai, Oct. 13, 2021: The United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues has urged the Churches in Asia to increase their engagement with the UN to promote minority rights. Fernand de Varennes said this while addressing the last day of the Christian Conference of Asia’s regional consultation onContinue Reading
By Lissy Maruthanakuzhy Panaji, Oct 13, 2021: When September came this year, it brought joyful memories of my school life and of my teachers, beginning with nursery school. I remember with love my teachers who stood by me in my moments of doubt and pain, and rejoiced at even myContinue Reading
By Lisa Zengarini Washington, Oct 12, 2021: US bishops commend the Biden Administration for increasing to 125,000 the number of refugees who can enter the United States in the new fiscal year. In a statement issued on October 11, they also call on Congress to sustain the Refugee Admissions ProgramContinue Reading
By Anand Mathew Varanasi, Oct 11, 2021: Some 50 Christ devotees attending Sunday service were attacked by Hindu radicals in the Mau district of the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. The activists of Bajrang Dal (party of the stout and strong) and Hindu Yuva Vahini, a youth group, paradedContinue Reading
By Fr F. M. Britto Raipur, Oct 11, 2021: Just two years after my priestly ordination, having served as an assistant in rural Pithora parish, our then Raipur Diocesan Administrator Monsignor Francis Werner Hunold appointed me as the first priest in charge of a new town parish Kawardha in aContinue Reading
BY Shalini Mulackal New Delhi, Oct 11, 2021: The first phase of the 16th Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops will take place from October 17 to April 2022. Preparations are already underway towards this. The Preparatory Document (PD) and the handbook (Vademecum) that accompanies it for conductingContinue Reading
