By Matters India Reporter New Delhi: Catholic laity groups in India have welcomed the news that the Vatican has initiated a probe into allegations against Bishop Kannikadass Antony William of Mysore. The Vatican has finally set up an enquiry commission to look into all the allegations against Bishop William, saysContinue Reading
Rome: Unidentified gunmen have kidnapped some 300 schoolgirls from the Nigerian town of Jangebe in the north-western state of Zamfara. According to the state’s information commissioner, “Unknown gunmen came shooting sporadically and took the girls away” in a midnight raid on February 26 on the Jangebe Government Girls’ Secondary School.Continue Reading
By Irudhaya Jothi Kolkata: Retired Jesuit Bishop Linus Nirmal Gomes, the oldest Catholic prelate of India, died February 27 in Kolkata. He was 99. Bishop Gomes, the first prelate of Baruipur diocese in West Bengal, died at 3 am in the infirmary of Kolkata’s St Xavier’s College where he wasContinue Reading
New York: United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has announced the appointment of Ligia Noronha of India as Assistant Secretary-General and head of the New York Office of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). She will succeed Satya Tripathi of India, who was thanked by secretary-general for his leadership and dedicatedContinue Reading
Kolkata: India’s coast guard personnel have rescued 81 Rohingya refugees from a boat adrift in the Andaman Sea. “The engine of the boat failed on February 15 and since then it has been drifting,” Indian Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) spokesperson Anurag Srivastava said in a press briefing on FebruaryContinue Reading
A religious order announced on Feb 25 that it had withdrawn an application to exhume the body of its US-born founder following an outcry in England, where the nun is buried. In a Feb. 25 statement, the Society of the Holy Child Jesus said that it had abandoned plans toContinue Reading
Berlin: The head of the German Bishops’ Conference said Feb 25 that the country’s Roman Catholic church is suffering from a “scandalous image” amid mounting anger over the Cologne archbishop’s handling of a report on past sexual abuse by clergy, but he defended its overall record in addressing the issue.Continue Reading
Guwahati: Over a period of 3-days this week, Salesians of Guwahati province reached out to Artisans, Migrant workers, and Sick people, from 22nd to 24th February 2021. Bosco Reach Out, the social service wing of the province handed over 80 handlooms to artisans, set up a Migrant Desk to assistContinue Reading
New Delhi: Farmers organizations have condemned a Chennai’s school’s examination paper that disparages their agitation against new farm laws. An English language examination paper of Dayanand Arya Vidyalaya Boys’ school in Chennai’s Gopalapuram has labeled the protesting farmers as “violent maniacs” acting under “external instigations.” During a written English examContinue Reading
By Will Maule Washington: A group of evangelical leaders have issued a statement condemning the role of Christian nationalism in January’s attack on the US Capitol. The attack, which saw hundreds of pro-Trump supporters storm the US government buildings, was condemned as an insurrection that threatened the safety of electedContinue Reading
