By Matters India Reporter Bengaluru, Feb 1, 2020: The 34th biennial plenary of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI) will take place February 12-19 at St. John’s National Academy for Medical Sciences in Bengaluru, capital of Karnataka state, southern India. The theme for the plenary assembly is “dialogue.” TheContinue Reading
By Purushottam Nayak Kandhamal, Feb 1, 2020: I was lucky to be among 32 priests from Odisha’s Kandhamal who recently undertook a pilgrimage to Bom Jesu Basilica in Goa that houses the relics of Saint Francis Xavier, one of daring missionaries of all times. The January 17-21 trip has strengthenedContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Sonada, Feb 1, 2020: An inter faith dialogue forum has proposed the creative use of digital media to propagate awareness on the urgent need of harmonious living between the various religions in the hills. “It was decided to introduce the concept of Inter Faith Dialogue asContinue Reading
By P. A. Chacko Sahibganj, Feb 1, 2020: Capuchin Father Joseph Puthenpurackal has been on a speed delivery of speeches, counselling talks, church sermons, retreat preachings, and TV channel appearances. He has the gift of the gab, they say. And, he thrives on it, it appears. The Kottayam-based priest canContinue Reading
Dimapur, Feb 1, 2020: Catholics are called to spread inner joy like light in the world and it can come only from God, says Justice Kurian Joseph, former Supreme Court judge. “Wealth, power, or positions cannot remove darkness; only God’s light can remove darkness,” Justice Kurian told opening session ofContinue Reading
By Nirmala Carvalho Mumbai, Jan 31, 2020: More than 700 priests from 91 of 132 India’s Latin rite dioceses spent four days at the Marian pilgrimage center of Vailankanni in Tamil Nadu to rediscover their enthusiasm to serve the Church and society. The second congress of the Conference of DiocesanContinue Reading
By Shay Cullen Cebu, Jan 31, 2020: January 27 marked the 75th anniversary of the liberation by Russian soldiers of the most notorious Nazi extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland. The memory of the horrific genocide that killed six million Jews and a million other innocent people by the NaziContinue Reading
The headline at dailymail.co.uk was certainly striking: “Nuns forced to become PROSTITUTES after they were ‘abandoned’ by the Catholic Church have been sheltered at a secret Vatican residence for more than a year, cardinal reveals.” The headline was based on an interview with Cardinal João Braz de Aviz, the prefectContinue Reading
Canada, Jan. 31, 2020: Asia Bibi, a Pakistani Christian woman who spent years on death row after being convicted of blasphemy, has published a book about her experiences and her new life. Ms Bibi released a memoir, Enfin Libre, or Finally Free, written with French journalist Anne-Isabelle Tollet. She wasContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Bhubaneswar, Jan 31, 2020: SIGNIS (World Catholic Association for Communications) in collaboration with Xavier University Bhubaneswar (XUB), India launched Jan 25 the first certificate course in Compassion and Social Communications. The intensive global media fellowship in Compassion and Social Communications was developed by Xavier Center forContinue Reading
