By Udayanath Bishoyi Bengaluru, April 29, 2019: India’s Catholic theologians have decided to collaborate with civil organizations and people of good will to check forces of religious fundamentalism, bigotry and discrimination. Since past few decades, communal identity construction has emerged in the Indian society that undermines the country’s pluralistic nature.Continue Reading
Colombo, April 29, 2019: Sri Lankan security officials have warned that Islamist militants are planning another round of attacks and could be dressed in uniform. Meanwhile Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith, archbishop of Colombo and head of the Catholic Church in Sri Lanka, complained about insufficient security around churches. Three churches andContinue Reading
Kochi, April 29, 2019: Police in Kerala have found that the bank documents produced as evidence against Cardinal George Alencherry in the church land sale case were forged. The investigation team has also found out the cardinal has not held any bank accounts as mentioned in the documents. “The investigationContinue Reading
Colombo, April 29, 2019: Sri Lankan security officials have warned that Islamist militants behind Easter Sunday’s suicide bombings are planning attacks and could be dressed in uniform, as the archbishop of Colombo complained about insufficient security around churches. The militants were targeting five locations for attacks on Sunday just passedContinue Reading
Matters India reporter Yangon, April 29, 2019: In a freak incident of history a cardinal of a small country that has witnessed decades of conflict and natural calamities reached out in compassion not only in his own country but also beyond the confines of his continental borders, four times inContinue Reading
Hyderabad, April 29, 2019: Hyderabad’s St George’s Church on April 28 saw a rather unusual guest addressing the 300-odd Christians assembled for the morning worship service. An Imam was speaking of peace, more precisely, condemning the ghastly terror attack in Sri Lanka that killed more than 350 people, mostly ChristiansContinue Reading
Philipose Mar Chrysostom, the senior most metropolitan of the Malankara Mar Thoma Syrian Church and one of Kerala’s oldest men, celebrated his 102nd birthday April 27. The bishop, who was awarded the Padma Bhushan last year, was born in 1918. Although he has now retired, Chrysostom even now participates inContinue Reading
Pittsburgh, April 29, 2019 — A 17th-century Geneva Bible, one of the hundreds of rare books authorities said was stolen from a Pittsburgh library as part of a 20-year-long theft scheme, is back home. he Bible, published in 1615, was traced to the American Pilgrim Museum in Leiden, about 45Continue Reading
Colombo, April 29, 2019: Over a week after the devastating Easter Sunday bombings in Sri Lanka, the country has completely banned all face veils including the burqa. The decision was approved by Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena and the announcement was made late on Sunday via a press release. AccordingContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporters New Delhi, April 28, 2019: Hundreds of thousands of Catholics throughout India dedicated April 28, the feast of Divine Mercy, to pray for neighboring Sri Lanka that was ravaged by serial blasts a week ago. The Conference of Catholic Bishops of India, the national body ofContinue Reading
