By Robancy A Helen Bengaluru, Feb 18, 2024: A national conference on synod has called for restoring the space denied to Dalit Christians in the Church and society. The February 16-17 conference on “Synodal Church: Voice of the Marginalized in India,” studied the Dalit Empowerment Policy of the Catholic Bishops’Continue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, Feb 17, 2023: The Catholic Church in India on February 17 witnessed another round of mass appointments of bishops. On the same day, Pope Francis accepted the resignations of one archbishop and five bishops. The appointments and resignations were announced at noon in Rome andContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Guwahati, Feb 16, 2024: Christian Churches in Assam, northeastern India, have criticized the state government’s “misguided and misleading” statement equating healing with proselytization. The Assam Christian Forum (ACF), an umbrella body of all Churches, has also rejected a radical Hindu group’s demand for the removal ofContinue Reading
By Don Aguiar Mumbai, Feb 16, 2024: 12th Fail unfolds on the screen as a poignant biographical drama, bringing to life the real-life story of IPS (Indian Police Service) officer Manoj Kumar Sharma and IRS (Indian Revenue Service) officer Shraddha Joshi. It is based on the 2019 eponymous non-fiction bookContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Mangaluru, Feb 15, 2024: A convent school in Mangaluru, southern India, on February 15 denied the allegations from some Hindu nationalist groups that a nun teacher had made derogatory remarks against Hindu deities. St. Gerosa High School’s denial came three days after it suspended the nun,Continue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Mangaluru, Feb 13, 2024: A Catholic school in the southern Indian city of Mangaluru has suspended one of its nun teachers for allegedly making derogatory remarks about Hindu deities. The students of Gerosa High School on February 12 were made to chant “Jai Sri Ram” (HailContinue Reading
By Thomas Scaria Belthangady, Feb 12, 2024: Option for the poor and the marginalized is the only mission of the Syro-Malabar Church in India, asserted Major Archbishop Raphael Thattil while inaugurating the silver jubilee celebration of Belthangady diocese in Karnataka. Belthangady is the first Syro-Malabar diocese in the southern IndianContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, Feb 11, 2023: Getting killed by wild animals that enter human settlements is never acceptable, asserts the head of the Syro-Malabar Church as another person was trampled to death by an elephant in the southern Indian state of Kerala. “One more life has been lostContinue Reading
By M K George Rome, Feb 11, 2024: With a rare kind of lucidity, courage and prophesy, the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI) in early February, decried the rising polarisation in the Indian society and called for the upholding the secular ethos of the nation. They showed the audacityContinue Reading
By Isaac Gomes Kolkata, Feb 11, 2023: For more than six years, the Supreme Court of India has been contending with a case on electoral bonds – basically the fundraising practices of political parties. The importance of the case has gained momentum in view of the imminent Lok Sabha election.Continue Reading
