By Thomas Scaria Mangaluru, March 18, 2025: A recent incident where a trainee nun has been accused of killing her newborn has not only shaken the Catholic Church in India but highlighted an “urgent need” to revise the way religious are formed, Sister Molly Mathew, a member of the MissionaryContinue Reading
By M L Satyan Coimbatore, March 18, 2025: These days, one of the “widely publicised information” and “vigorously promoted events” in the Catholic parishes and dioceses is “pilgrimage.” Usually, people undertake special penitential pilgrimages during the Lenten season. Now, being the Jubilee Year, the number of pilgrimages has increased. TheContinue Reading
By Rani Punnasseril Jalandhar, March16, 2025: Organic farming, water conservation and other eco-friendly practices are among several ways the Catholic dioceses in northern India plan to answer the cry of Mother Earth. This emerged at the March 15-16 bi-annual meeting of the northern region of the Conference of Catholic BishopsContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, March 17, 2025: Capuchin Father Xavier Vadakkekara, who braved partial blindness to inject new life into India’s leading Church weekly “Indian Currents” and mentor many young journalists, died on March 16. He was 72. The death occurred at 11:35 pm at Holy Family Hospital NewContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Bhubaneswar, March 15, 2025: A delegation of Catholic lawyers is visiting dioceses in Odisha as violence against Christians increases in the eastern Indian state. “This initiative is timely, as incidents of violence against Christians are rising in Odisha. Providing legal aid is crucial to protecting theContinue Reading
By Rani Punnasseril Bengaluru, March 15, 2025: A renewed commitment to migrants’ dignity, rights, and well-being was the highlight of two-day training program of the Karnataka Regional Migrant Commission that ended March 14 in Bengaluru. The event brought together 21 participants from the state’s 11 Larin rite dioceses, who pledgedContinue Reading
By Purushottam Nayak Nabarangpur, March 15, 2025: Christian families have become Hindus to facilitate the burial of a relative in an eastern Indian village. Only three of the 30 families in Siunaguda, a village in Odisha’s Nabarangpur district, are Christian, belonging to the “Brothers in Assembly,” a Pentecostal sect. AfterContinue Reading
By Rani Punnasseril Bengaluru, March 14, 2025: Seminaries and formation centers of the Church should get involved with people’s lives, particularly by fostering sensitivity toward migrants and displaced persons, said Archbishop Victor Henry Thakur of Raipur, the chairman of the Commission for Migrants under the Conference of Catholic Bishops ofContinue Reading
By chhotebhai Kanpur, March 11, 2025: Trump has weaponized tariffs to subject both friend and foe. He has even weaponized (appropriated) the Bible to further his self-centred goals. Sacred Scripture, like anything else, can be used or abused. It’s like a knife. It can be used in a well-lit kitchenContinue Reading
By George Kommattam Calicut, March 10, 2025: Hundreds of people on March 10 attended the Eucharistic Miracles Expo at a church in Kerala’s Kozhikode town, organized by a six-year-old movement to revive the devotion to the Blessed Sacrament. “The main cause of the decline in faith is the diminishing devotionContinue Reading
