By Matters India Reporter Guwahati, August 18, 2019: The Indian media has reported cases of human trafficking of girls and boys from northeastern India. Incidents of racial attacks on people from the region are reported from other parts of India, including New Delhi, national capital. The Church in northeastern IndiaContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kochi, August 18, 2019: A section of lay people in the Archdiocese of Ernakulam Angamaly has asked the Syro-Malabar Synod to find a solution to the crisis in their archdiocese immediately. The Oriental Catholic Church’s synod will begin on August 19 at its headquarters in Kakkanad,Continue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, August 17, 2019: Caritas India, the social service arm of the Catholic Church, collaborates with state governments and NGOs to bring succor to millions of people affected the erratic monsoon with heavy rains. “We are coordinating with the state governments and disaster response agenciesContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kochi, August 17, 2019: A Catholic religious congregation in Kerala has asked the mother of an expelled nun to take her back. The Franciscan Clarist Congregation (FCC) sent a letter to Rosamma Scaria asking her to receive her daughter Sister Lucy Kalappura, who was dismissed fromContinue Reading
By Lissy Maruthanakuzhy Panaji, August 17, 2019: When Robin D’Souza and friends thought of beginning a cable TV channel in Goa to promote Gospel values, it seemed an impossible dream at first. “The impossible dream has become a reality now,” D’Souza, who oversees the day to day function of theContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, August 17, 2019: The “centenary flag” of All India Catholic Union (AICU) received an enthusiastic welcome when it reached the national capital on August 17 after having travelled length and breadth of India. Archbishop Anil J.T Couto of Delhi received the flag at NewContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Patna, August 17, 2019: Students and staff of Patna’s St Xavier’s College of Management and Technology on August 17 offered floral tributes to India’s “Mountain Man” on his 12th death anniversary. Dashrath Manjhi, a daily wage laborer, got the title after carving a path through aContinue Reading
By Fr. Saturnino Dias Every year, August 4, we celebrate the feast of St. John Mary Vianney, the patron saint of priests serving as pastors. We also celebrate Pastors’ Day in the parishes to appreciate the good work our priests do in the Parishes of our Archdiocese. For us priests,Continue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Mananthavady, August 16, 2019: A Catholic nun in Kerala has appealed to the Pontifical Congregation for the Oriental Churches against her dismissal from a congregation on disciplinary grounds. “I’m very afraid… they are killing me little by little, trying to take away all my happiness,” SisterContinue Reading
Mumbai, August 16, 2019: Bollywood actor Madhavan Balaji Ranganathan, popularly known as R. Madhavan, says he respects all religions as his own and that he has the good fortune to pray at every darga, gurudwara and church when a temple was not around. The 49-year-old actor was responding to aContinue Reading
