By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, Dec 11, 2024: The diocese of Eluru in southern India has launched an investigation after a trainee nun is accused of killing her newborn child after allegedly being impregnated by a Capuchin seminarian. “The diocese has asked the child abuse prevention committee to makeContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, Dec 10, 2024: Around 50 pastors from various Christian denominations in the national capital have attended an Advent Recollection and prayed for peace in the world and India, especially in the northeastern state of Manipur. Colonel Vanlafela, Territory Manager of The Salvation Army India,Continue Reading
By Allen Brooks Guwahati, Dec 10, 2024: A silent sit-in protest was held December 10 in Guwahati, northeastern India, to mark the International Human Rights Day and to express solidarity with the people of Manipur, who have been grappling with a prolonged ethnic crisis. Prominent intellectuals, political leaders, and civilContinue Reading
By Sujata Jena Eluru, Dec 9,2024: More than 100 priests, brothers and nuns who practice law have resolved to reach out to those affected by anti-conversion laws and anti-minority atrocities. The National Lawyers Forum of Religious and Priests (NLFRP) that held its December 6-8 convention at Eluru in Andhra PradeshContinue Reading
By Elvis Fernandes Pilar, Dec 6, 2024: Goa hosted the biennial meeting of International Societies of Apostolic Life at a time when the western Indian state was holding the decennial exposition of the sacred relics of St. Francis Xavier, the patron of missions. The December 2-6 meeting drew representatives ofContinue Reading
Sr Monica Thangbiakmawii Siliguri, December 8 2024: After spending a year in Siliguri, 20 postulants of the Missionary Sisters of Mary Help of Christians (MSMHC) will join two novitiates -Guwahati and Tinsukia in Assam along with 40 other postulants from Bangalore and Bongaigaon, Assam, on December 10, 2024. “The PostulantsContinue Reading
By Thomas Scaria Chooralmala, Dec 9, 2024: A Church group comprising priests, laity and nuns, on December 8 handed over six temporary houses to families, who had lost their homes in a massive landslide in Wayanad, a district in the southern Indian state of Kerala more than four months ago.Continue Reading
By Irudhaya Jothi Kolkata, Dec 7, 2024: Catholic media persons in India on December 7 mourned the death of Jesuit communication expert Father Joseph Paimpallikunnel, director of Chitrabani, the oldest media training institute in eastern India. Father Joseph, who was popularly known as PJ, died the same day at 6:50Continue Reading
By Tessy Jacob Bhubaneswar, Dec 7, 2024: The Congregation of Missionary Sisters Servants of the Holy Spirit (SSpS), popularly known as the Holy Spirit Sisters, celebrates 135th anniversary of its foundation on December 8. Founded in 1889 by German Father Arnold Janssen and two women aspirants, Helena Stollenwerk and HendrinaContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Bengaluru, Dec 6, 2024: Archbishop Peter Machado of Bangalore has denounced as “baseless and reprehensible” the reported statement of a person accused of vandalizing the statue of a Lingayat seer. “We have learned through media reports of the unfortunate and deeply disturbing incident of the defacementContinue Reading
