By Doctor George Jacob Kochi, July 12, 2020: The sprawling megapolis of Mumbai has become one of the viral hotspots in India, as COVID-19 has decidedly refused to let go of its grip on the world’s second most populous nation. This hasn’t surprised anybody. Mumbai, like New York is tailorContinue Reading
By Anjana Varma Shillong, July 12, 2020: Salesian Father Manoj Abraham Churuliyil is the director of Shillong’s Don Bosco Centre for Indigenous Cultures and Museum. The native of the southern Indian state of Kerala wears many hats — he is a Council Member of Salesian Province of Shillong, professor atContinue Reading
By Philip Mathew Puducherry, July 12, 2020: For months, village women who passed a bar on their way to church or the Hindu temple suffered the lewd comments flung at them by drunken patrons. Sister Anthonysami Alphonsa, whose office was in the nearby town of Ginjee in Tamil Nadu state,Continue Reading
Istanbul, July 12, 2020: The World Council of Churches has called on Turkey”s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to reverse his decision to turn the celebrated Hagia Sophia museum back into a mosque. In a letter to Erdogan, the Council, which counts 350 churches as members, said the move would sowContinue Reading
SAN GABRIEL, Calif, July 12, 2020: A fire early July 11 destroyed the rooftop and most of the interior of a Catholic church in California that was undergoing renovation to mark its upcoming 250th anniversary celebration. Fire alarms at the San Gabriel Mission rang around 4 a.m. When firefighters arrived,Continue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Mumbai, July 12, 2020: Cardinal Oswald Gracias on July 12 expressed concern over seafarers stranded in various parts of the world because of the coronavirus pandemic and assured them the Church’s prayers for their safe return home. “I want to join you my dear seafarers whoContinue Reading
By Fr. Paul Parecattil Kochi, July 12, 2020: Ernakulam-Angamaly Archdiocese of Kerala is opening a youtube chanel to bring devotional music nearer to liturgical music; through its latest YouTube channel, ‘Sacred Music’. It’s a new venture of the Sacred Music department of the archdiocese which recently published its firstContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kochi, Jul 11, 2020: The Kerala High Court has directed the police to provide protection to the life and property of Sister Lucy Kalappura, a nun expelled by the Franciscan Clarist Congregation for allegedly violating religious vows. In her petition to the top court in Kerala,Continue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Bhatpur, July 12, 2020: Pastor Munsi Deo Tando was abducted and murdered in near Bhatpar, a village in the Gadchiroli district of the western Indian state of Maharashtra. A group of Naxalites or Maoists came to the pastor’s house as he was concluding a 90-minute prayerContinue Reading
By Purushottam Nayak Padangi, July 11, 2020: Indira Pradhan is ready to give up her husband, three young children and relatives after getting to know Jesus Christ. The 42-year-old woman of Kandhamal, Odisha, says she had serious health issues for three years from 2013 and spent huge money on treatmentContinue Reading
