By Matters India Reporter Ambikapur, Feb 8, 2024: A Catholic nun has been remanded in judicial custody in connection with the death by suicide of a school girl in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh. A court in Ambikapur, a major city in Sarguja district, on February 7 remanded CarmeliteContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, Feb 8, 2024: The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India, the first episcopal body in the world to study Artificial Intelligence (AI) seriously, has asked the country’s 174 dioceses to educate their more than 20 million members to responsibly use digital tools. “AI holds out theContinue Reading
By Thomas Scaria Bengaluru, Feb 7, 2023: The Church in India is facing unprecedented situation in the current socio-political scenario that threatens religious freedom, says Archbishop Andrews Thazhath of Trichur, who was re-elected the president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI) for another two-year term. “The religious freedomContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, Feb 7, 2024: Increasing attacks and harassment on Christian institutions and personnel in India will not prevent the Church from serving the poor and downtrodden, assert the Catholic bishops in the country. “As loyal citizens of India, we will continue serving our country whatever beContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Lucknow, Feb 6, 2023: A priest of Lucknow Catholic diocese was among seven people remanded to judicial custody on February 6 for allegedly trying to convert poor Hindus. Father Dominic Pinto and others were presented before the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate in Barabanki, some 90Continue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, Feb 5, 2024: The fate of more than 700 students hangs in the air as the authorities in Kashmir have failed to renew the land lease documents of St Joseph Higher Secondary School, the oldest Catholic educational institution in the union territory. “We feel helpless,”Continue Reading
By Stanislaus Alla New Delhi, Feb 5, 2024: Fraternity is very close to the heart of Pope Francis. Historians will employ ‘fraternity’ as an important key to unlock, understand and interpret the ministry of Pope Francis. Personally, he embodies the virtue of fraternity even as he regularly refers to itContinue Reading
By M L Satyan Bengaluru, Feb 4, 2024: Today’s socioeconomic, religious and political scenario in the country frightens me. I wonder whether we live in a civilised and a democratic society when we see the ushering-in of Rama Rajya by constructing Ram temple at Ayodhya. The pro-corporate policies of theContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Bengaluru, Feb 1, 2024: The second day of the General Body Meeting of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI) on February 1 saw the participants the review the outcome of the Rome Synod on Synodality, Manipur crisis and situation of Christians across the country. CardinalContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Bengaluru, Jan 31, 2024: The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI) began its 36th general body meeting on January 31 with a solemn Mass at St. John’s Auditorium in Bengaluru. The main celebrant was Archbishop Leopoldo Girelli, the Apostolic Nuncio to India and Nepal. In hisContinue Reading
