By Matters India Reporter Kannur, July 13, 2025: Rajagiri College of Social Sciences (Autonomous), managed by the Carmelites of Mary Immaculate congregation in Kerala’s Kochi, has ranked second among 25 best social work institutes in India. The top rank in the list of “India Today Best Colleges 2025” has goneContinue Reading
Canterbury, July 13, 2025: Plans are underway to exhume and enshrine the head of Sir Thomas More ahead of the 500th anniversary of his death. Saint More is the Catholic martyr who was beheaded in 1535 for opposing England King Henry VIII’s break from Rome, St Dunstan’s Church in Canterbury,Continue Reading
C.M. Paul Jilingsereng, July 10, 2025: Nestled nearly 1,000 feet above sea level, some 25 kilometers from the nearest signs of urban life, lies Jilingsereng, a remote tribal hamlet in West Bengal’s Purulia district. Hidden deep within a forest zone and 15 kilometers from the main road, this village ofContinue Reading
By Elvis Fernandes Pilar, July 7, 2025: A major seminary in the western Indian state of Goa has made its 21 theology students work in farms so that they learn better what is taught in classes. The students of the second, third and fourth year theology classes of the PilarContinue Reading
C.M. Paul Shillong, July 7, 2025: Salesian Father Zephyrinus Baxla, a trailblazer in Adivasi cultural revival and education, died on July 7 due to kidney ailments. The death occurred at 7:30 pm at Holy Cross Hospital, Kunkuri, in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh, announced Salesian Shillong provincial Father JohnContinue Reading
C.M. Paul Bangalore, July 7, 2025: BREADS Bangalore convened a state-level strategic meeting on July 3, 2025 to launch its pioneering “Sport for Change” initiative—an ambitious youth empowerment programme operating across seven locations in five districts of Kerala. Rooted in a dynamic anti-drug campaign, the initiative leverages the unifying andContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Thrissur, July 7, 2025: Mar Aprem Metropolitan, who had led the Assyrian Church of the East in India for five decades, died July 7 following a brief hospitalization for age-related ailments in Thrissur, Kerala. He was 85. The funeral and other rituals will be decided afterContinue Reading
C.M. Paul Mumbai, July 4, 2025 – After the resounding success of Jubilate Jesus, Volume 1—launched on New Year’s Day 2025 with vivacious Jubilee Anthem—Tej-Prasarini, Don Bosco Communications, officially released Volume 2 in honour of the 2025th Jubilee of Jesus’ birth, on July 3. The event held in the auditoriumContinue Reading
by Sujata Jena Bhubaneswar, July 6, 2025: As a religious sister and advocate, I can no longer stay silent. My journey has long been marked by pain as I witness the suffering, injustice and hardship that define life in this region. Odisha, an eastern Indian state rich in resources, remainsContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi Kannur, July 4, 2025: The Catholic Church in Kerala, southern India, on July 4 witnessed a priest dying of suspected suicide, the second such case in less than two months. Father Antony Ullatthil was found hanging in a house that his congregation, the Missionary Congregation of theContinue Reading
