By Matters India Reporter Panaji, Nov 10, 2019: A group of media persons has joined the Daughters of St Paul in Goa to set up a media discussion group in Panaji, the state capital. They met on November 8 to reflect on the theme of 53rd World Communications Day–“We areContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Patna, Nov 10, 2019: Science and technology offer many resources for development, but they are often misused. Hence there is need of ethical guidelines to use technology for a better universe. This was highlighted in a one-day seminar on November 9 at Arcade Business College (ABC),Continue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, Nov. 10, 2019: Tirunellai Narayana Seshan, an icon of Indian bureaucracy who ushered in reforms in the country’s electoral process, died of cardiac arrest on November 10 in Chennai. He was 86. Seshan, a native of Kerala’s Palakkad district, was India’s chief election commissionerContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Bengaluru, Nov 10, 2019: Some leading theologians from across the world have held a brainstorming workshop to draft a new commentary on the Second Vatican Council documents. The November 8-9 seminar was held at Dharmaram Vidya Kshetram, an ecclesiastical institution of higher learning established by theContinue Reading
By Santosh Digal Manila, November 9, 2019: Carmelite of Mary Immaculate Father Mathew Chandrankunnel heads Ecumenical Christian Centre (ECC), a Protestant-initiated institute in Bengaluru, capital of Karnataka state. The center was set up in 1963 by the late Reverend M. A. Thomas of the Mar Thoma Church to promote “unityContinue Reading
By Nirmala Carvalho Mumbai, Nov. 9, 2019: The Basilica of Our Lady of the Mount in Bandra, Mumbai, has marked the 65 years of its dedication. The current structure was built in 1904, but the devotion to Our Lady in the chapel goes back over 400 years Bishop John Rodrigues,Continue Reading
By Ancie Wilfred Nagpur, Nov. 9, 2019: One morning I was wondering what to fill into the extra hour that I had acquired in my day because of a planned activity being postponed. Then I heard a woman’s voice near my door asking if I was home. It was Saraswati,Continue Reading
By Rajiv Theodore New Delhi, Nov. 7, 2019: I doubt whether I would have ever come to know of a “Didgeridoo” if a chance encounter one evening with Ron Murray did not take place. He was on his way from Melbourne to Chennai with a stopover in Delhi. As theContinue Reading
By Irudhaya Jothi Rome, Nov 7 2019: In the poor you have the privilege to encounter Christ, Pope told a group of Jesuit social activists. Pope Francis addressed the Jesuit social activists in a private audience at Vatican on November 7. Around 210 Jesuit social activists and lay collaborators haveContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, Nov 7, 2019: The Archdiocese of Tellicherry on November 7 dismissed as fake media reports that it has formed an army to protect Christian faith and ideals. “The news about the Gabriel Sena (army) is objectionable misrepresentation of facts. It violates the media ethics,” saysContinue Reading
