By Matters India Reporter Varanasi, Feb 24, 2020: An advocacy group for progressive Catholic religious nuns, brothers and priests in India has asked top Church bodies to oppose openly laws that try to divide citizens in the country. “The Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), the National Register of Citizens (NRC) andContinue Reading
By Susanna Tuscano Mumbai, Feb 25, 2020: One of the common problems I have come across in Catholic circles is the lack of potential spouses for those young people who take their faith seriously. Catholics are already a minority in India (where only around 2.5 percent of the population isContinue Reading
By Andy Telli Nashville, Feb 25, 2020: Earlier this year, Bishop J. Mark Spalding of Nashville visited India to express his thanks and gratitude to the families and religious order superiors of the 11 Indian priests living and serving in his diocese. “Since I’ve been bishop, every priest from IndiaContinue Reading
Paris. Feb. 25, 2020: Asia Bibi, the Pakistani Christian woman who spent years on death row after a 2010 conviction of blasphemy, said Monday that she was seeking political asylum from the French government. “My great desire is to live in France,” Bibi said in an interview with RTL radio,Continue Reading
Vatican City, Feb. 25, 2020: One of the six members of Pope Francis’ advisory Council of Cardinals has acknowledged a bias among the members of the Catholic Church’s all-male hierarchy against giving women more leadership roles, saying he and his peers must “shed this prejudice.” In an NCR interview, IndianContinue Reading
Rome, Feb 24, 2020: Several Catholic dioceses in northern Italy have suspended Mass and other activities this week to help contain the spread of COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by coronavirus. The northern regions of Italy saw a dramatic uptick in coronavirus cases over the weekend, prompting some regions toContinue Reading
Neriamangalam, Feb 24, 2020: A 32-year-old Catholic priest died of drowning after a boat capsized in Kerala’s Periyar river. The mishap occurred at around 6:30 pm on February 23 when Father John Padinjattuvayalil and two other two priests of Kothamangalam diocese were in a boat. The boat turned upside downContinue Reading
New Delhi, Feb. 24, 2020: The Sunni Waqf Board, a top Muslim body, will accept the five-acre plot allotted by the Uttar Pradesh government in Ayodhya earlier this month in line with a Supreme Court verdict on the decades old temple-mosque dispute. The Muslim body today said apart from aContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, Feb 24, 2020: Pope Francis on February 24 appointed Father Jose Chirackal as the auxiliary bishop of Tura, a diocese in the northeastern Indian state of Meghalaya. The announcement was made at noon in Rome and its corresponding time (4:30 pm) in India. FatherContinue Reading
New Delhi, Feb 24, 2020: A Delhi Police officer was among five people killed February 24, the second day of violence that broke out across multiple northeast Delhi neighborhoods. Protesters for and against the controversial citizenship law threw stones, set vehicles and shops ablaze and transformed parts of the nationalContinue Reading
