By Matters India Reporter Kochi: An expelled Catholic nun suffered a setback July 14 when the Kerala High Court refused to entertain her plea for protection against eviction from the convent where she currently stays. Lucy Kalappura was in August 2019 expelled from the Franciscan Clarist Congregation. The Vatican rejectedContinue Reading
Colombo: Sri Lanka’s Catholic church has demanded action against former president Maithripala Sirisena and ex-prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe for their failures to prevent the 2019 Easter Sunday suicide bombings that killed 270 people, including 11 Indians. Nine suicide bombers, belonging to local Islamist extremist group National Thawheed Jamaat (NTJ) linkedContinue Reading
By Mark Saludes, LiCAS.news Manila: Pro-environment and faith-based groups have challenged corporate giant San Miguel Corporation (SMC) to abandon all its coal projects to live up to its commitment to support sustainable energy. On July 11, SMC announced that it is “adding more renewables into its power portfolio” with theContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kottayam: Hundreds of people from various social strata on July 13 attended the funeral of the supreme head of the Malankara Orthodox Church. Catholicos of the East, Baselios Marthoma Paulose II, died July 12 at Parumala St. Gregorios Hospital. He was on treatment for cancer forContinue Reading
By Felix Anthony and Ginto K Tom Guwahati: The Catholic bishops in northeastern India on July 13 condemned the demolition of a church in the national capital the previous day. “It is shocking and sad news,” said Archbishop John Moolachira of Guwahati, who is president of North East India RegionalContinue Reading
Mumbai: The Maharashtra government on Tuesday submitted to the Bombay High Court the medical records of Jesuit priest and activist Stan Swamy, an 84-year-old accused in the Elgar Parishad case who died in a hospital while being in judicial custody last week awaiting a medical bail. Chief public prosecutor ArunaContinue Reading
New Delhi: The Delhi Development Authority (DDA) on July 14 formed a sub-committee to examine a proposed amendment in the procedure and eligibility conditions for allotment of ”religious” category plots through e-auction, officials said. The decision was taken during a meeting of the urban body chaired by Delhi Lt GovernorContinue Reading
New Delhi: The northern Indian state of Uttarakhand has decided to give “top priority to the protection of human life” by suspending Kanwar Yatra, an annual pilgrimage, in view of the Covid-19 situation. The decision was taken by Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami following a meeting with senior State officialsContinue Reading
A student from Kerala’s Thrissur enrolled at a medical college in China, who was the first Indian to test positive for Covid-19 in January 2020 after returning to India following the outbreak of the pandemic, has been infected again, a health official said on Tuesday. She is, however, asymptomatic, theContinue Reading
By Lissy Maruthanakuzhy Panaji: Sacramental blackmail, clergy sexual abuse, clericalism and property disputes are among challenges facing Catholic women religious in India, an international webinar was told. The July 10 meeting organized by Voices of Faith, a Rome-based international network, discussed the findings of a Conference of Religious India surveyContinue Reading
