By Matters India Reporter Salalah, September 9, 2019: More than one thousand people attended the civil inauguration ceremony of the new St. Francis Xavier Church, Salalah, which is located around ten minutes from the City Centre, Oman, on Sept 7. Most of the parishioners comprise of Indian and Filipinos migrantContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, September 9, 2019: On the eve Indian bishops’ Ad Limina Apostolorum visit to the Vatican, a senior Dalit leader requested Pope Francis to speak to Church leaders on the plight of Dalit Christians. “Now, at the eve of the Ad Limina visit to RomeContinue Reading
Antananarivo, Sept. 9, 2019: Pope Francis on Sept. 8 celebrated a former student of his who is now sometimes called Madagascar’s “living saint” for having changed the lives of thousands of poor people who once lived in garbage dumps. Thousands of former slum dwellers, many of them children, gave theContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Malkangiri, September 9, 2019: Odisha’s Malkangiri district has another reason to draw media attention. The Maoist-infested backward district has produced the first commercial pilot from the tribal women of the eastern Indian state. Anupriya Madhumita Lakra, who will join Indigo Airlines as a co-pilot in theContinue Reading
By Felix Anthony Miao, September 9, 2019: The Miao unit of the Catholic Religious in India (CRI) organized an animation program for the domestic support staff to celebrate the birthday of Blessed Virgin Mary. The domestic support staff in convents and schools work restlessly without break behind the four wallsContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kolkata, September 9, 2019: Jesuit social activist Father Irudaya Jothi has received this year’s “Nation Builders Award 2019” The event on Sept 7 at Rotary Sadan took place a day ahead of the celebrations of the International Literacy Day. Father Jothi received the award, along withContinue Reading
By Walter Fernandes Shillong, September 7, 2019: A Jesuit priest, Prof. Alphonsus D’Souza, who was often known as “Father of Sociology in Nagaland” died on September 6. He was 78. Father D’Souza, Senior Fellow at North Eastern Social Research Centre, Guwahati (NESRC) passed away on September 6 morning. NESRC wasContinue Reading
Rome,September 6, 2019— Catholics from around the world are being invited to assemble, on Oct. 5, near St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome, to pray for the Church as she lives through what many see as the hour of her “Passion.” The announcement came in a letter published on Sept. 6Continue Reading
By Matters India reporter Kolkata, September 8, 2019: Our Lady Queen of the Missions School in Kolkata has become the first of a group of educational institutions in eastern India to adopt the philosophy ‘Learn to Learn’ for its teachers, parents and students. The ‘Intellectual Meet to usher in theContinue Reading
Kochi, Sept 7, 2019: Archbishop Antony Kariyil has assumed charge as administrative archbishop of the Syro-Malabar Archdiocese of Ernakulam-Angamaly with a solemn Mass at St. Mary’s Basilica on September 7. Cardinal George Alencherry, Major Archbishop of the Syro-Malabar Church, was the main celebrant at the concelebrated Mass in which nuns,Continue Reading
