By Matters India Reporter Hyderabad, Oct 31, 2024: More than 100 activists, environmentalists and academics from across India on October 31 called for a comprehensive review of a project that threatens to displace the poor living on the banks of the Musi River in the southern Indian state of Telangana.Continue Reading
By M L Satyan Coimbatore, Oct 30, 2024: I was intrigued by the revelations Bishop James Thoppil of Kohima, chairman of the northeast bishops’ formation commission, made during the meeting of the formators of northeastern region held from October 21-23 at Mount Tabor Retreat Centre in Dimapur. He placed theContinue Reading
By Lissy Maruthanakuzhy Panaji, Oct 25, 2024: A cross made of 198 pieces of wood and an icon of Mother Mary are now journeying through the parishes of the Archdiocese Goa-Daman. “Each piece is of different size, color and shape to show that each parish and people in the archdioceeContinue Reading
By Purushottam Nayak Bhubaneswar, Oct 24, 2024: A young Catholic woman, who had, as a child survived the anti-Christian violence in Odisha’s Kandhamal district, credits Jesus for her admission to a medical college this year after clearing the National Eligibility and Entrance Test (NEET). “It is the power of ChristContinue Reading
By Thomas Scaria Mangaluru, Oct 24, 2024: Church leaders have mourned the death of a well-known social worker and reformer, who had become “amma” (mother) to hundreds of women, mostly Muslims, in Kerala’s Malappuram district. Apostolic Carmel Sister Marienie succumbed to cancer on October 21 at a private hospital inContinue Reading
By M L Satyan Coimbatore, Oct 24, 2024: Across 112 countries, 1.1 billion people live in acute multidimensional poverty, according to the 2024 Global Multidimensional Poverty Index report. In India, a total of 234 million people live below the poverty line, the highest in the world, according to a reportContinue Reading
By Carlos Luis Secunderabad, Oct 23, 2024: Around 60 Catholic moral theologians from across India have spent three days in Secunderabad, Telangana, to address mounting ethical challenges in the country’s healthcare system. “Biomedical Ethics: Developments and Challenges in the Indian Scenario” was the theme of the October 18-20 conference ofContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, Oct 23, 2024: Church leaders, theologians and grassroots workers in India have mourned the death of the father of the Liberation Theology who forced Christians to recognize the poor as agents and partners and not objects of charity. Dominican Father Gustavo Gutiérrez died October 22Continue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, Oct 22, 2024: A former student of Agra’s St Peter’s College has brought glory to the Catholic institution by winning the world’s largest history prize this year. Tripurdaman Singh is among nine research scholars to win the Dan David Prize that celebrates the nextContinue Reading
By Kampan Chinnam Kohima, Oct. 21, 2024: A Catholic bishop has suggested making seminary formation more rigorous like the training given to civil service officers in India, as nearly half the priests now serving the Church seem to perform below average. Bishop James Thoppil of Kohima, chairman of the northeastContinue Reading
