July 8, 2019: When deliberating over whether or not to become a priest, Kinley Tshering – an extremely rare Catholic convert in his native Bhutan – asked God for a sign. The sign came on an ensuing airplane flight when he discovered he was sitting next to Mother Teresa (nowContinue Reading
Hyderabad, July 8, 2019: Several Muslim organisations in Hyderabad have held meetings to chalk out a plan to curb incidents of violence especially mob violence against Muslims in the wake of several incidents of lynching taking place in India in several states. Two consecutive meetings of representatives from various communityContinue Reading
Matters India reporter Sonada, July 8 — A Tibetan settlement school in the Darjeeling hills held its first annual cultural show as well as celebrated 84th birthday of the spiritual leader of the Tibetans in exile His Holiness Dalai Lama, 8th July 2019. “It is customary for us to extendContinue Reading
New Delhi, July 8, 2019: At least 29 people were killed and 17 wounded when a bus skidded off the six-lane Yamuna Expressway near Delhi and fell into a large drain. The 165-km-long expressway connects Noida with Agra in Uttar Pradesh. The state government-run bus, carrying 46 people, was goingContinue Reading
By: Matters India Reporter Kollam, July 8: A 68-year-old Salesian priest died in a road accident in the early hours of July 7. According to reports, Father Thomas Augustine was on his way to hospital for a check-up, when he was hit by an auto rickshaw near St. Stephen’s Church,Continue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kochi, July 8, 2019: More than 1,000 delegates from 319 parishes of the Archdiocese of Ernakulam-Angamaly have supported priests who oppose their archbishop, Cardinal George Alencherry, who is allegedly involved in a land scam. Members from official organizations of the Church bodies such as pastoral councilContinue Reading
By P J Chacko The Church in Kerala appears to be in agonizing throes. Court cases, division among the priestly class, the laity split into ‘for’ and ‘against,’ oblique criticisms and tongue in cheek inanities, part of the laity becoming doubting Thomases and part wading through confused feelings, and aContinue Reading
Kochi, July 7 2019: A 40-year-old Christian priest was arrested on July 7 for allegedly sexually assaulting inmates of a boys’ home , police said. The arrest of Father George, alias Jerry Thareparambil, for alleged sexual abuse of young children at a boys’ home in Kochi in Kerala’s Ernakulam districtContinue Reading
Inés San Martín Rome, July 7, 2019: Cardinal Oswald Gracias of Bombay, is one of Pope Francis’s closest advisers. He’s a member of the council of cardinals re-writing the Vatican’s constitution, and he was also tapped to be one of the four coordinators of a recent Church summit on theContinue Reading
Colombo, July 7, 2019: On June 19, Sri Lanka successfully put its first satellite into orbit. This was a landmark moment for the small island country that spent nearly four decades focused on a civil war between the Sri Lankan state and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. But theContinue Reading
