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
By Cedric Prakash Ahmedabad, March 10, 2025: Many years ago, there was a popular American song which one gustily sang at camps, picnics and other get-togethers. Thanks to its very catchy tune, it was always a hit. The chorus of the lyrics went thus: “This land is your land, andContinue Reading
By Lissy Maruthanakuzhy Panaji, March 10, 2025: More than 28,000 Catholics from 167 parishes joined this year’s walking pilgrimage organized by the archdiocese of Goa and Daman. The annual Lenten program with the theme, “As Pilgrims of Hope, let us Proclaim the Good News,” began at 2 am on MarchContinue Reading
By Purushottam Nayak Kandhamal, March 9, 2025: Christians in India have mourned the son of the Moderator of the Church of North India who was killed while opposing rape. Bibash Nayak, son of Bishop Bijay Nayak Church, a native of Odisha, was among three men who were thrown into aContinue Reading
