By Matters India Reporter Kilapanga, November 6, 2026: Demonstrating solidarity with Cyclone Arnab victims, staff and students from Vijaya Higher Secondary School (Raikia) distributed essential dry food supplies at the Kilapanga Relief Centre in Odisha on November 6. The school, located in Kandhamal and managed by the Archdiocese of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar,Continue Reading
By Purushottam Nayak Raikia, November 6, 2026: A three-year-old girl, Jhansi Pradhan, now finds herself facing a world she is too young to understand. While other children her age run into the loving arms of their parents, Jhansi looks around with tear-filled eyes, searching for the mother, father and babyContinue Reading
By C.M. Paul Siliguri, October 26, 2026: Across the world, young people have often been at the forefront of movements for freedom and human dignity. In Haiti, Salesian priest Jean-Bertrand Aristide became a powerful voice against dictatorship, corruption, and social injustice. In East Timor, Salesian Archbishop Carlos Ximenes Belo helpedContinue Reading
By Thomas Scaria Permude, October 22, 2026: St.John the Baptist Church in Permude at the outskirts of Mangaluru, becomes an icon of ‘communal harmony and peaceful coexistence’ with several Hindus and Muslims joining its construction and blessing. Around 2000 Hindus and Muslims joined the inauguration and blessings of the ChurchContinue Reading
By George Kommattam Kozhikode, India — October 12, 2026: On a rainy day in July, Bindu Anandan came to Sister Alice Kasmel Vadakkethundil to invite the nun to her daughter’s wedding. Vadakkethundil, the principal of Karuna (Mercy) Speech and Hearing Higher Secondary School in Kozhikode, a city in the southwesternContinue Reading
By Purushottam Nayak SIKABADI, September 22, 2026: In a remote corner of Odisha’s Kandhamal district, where daily-wage labour and small-scale farming sustain families, five young people from one extended tribal household are beginning a journey that once seemed almost unimaginable: medical college. In Sikabadi village of Daringbadi block, Bursi PradhanContinue Reading
By Thomas Scaria Kunnoth, September 7, 2026: A few months ago, Sidharth Jayakrishnan underwent a nature-based treatment at the center managed by the Nazareth Sisters in Kunnoth, a village in Kerala state. He is among more than 10,000 people who have achieved holistic recovery at the Nazareth Nature Cure CentreContinue Reading
By George Kommattam Kozhikode, August 19, 2026: Eight years ago, Sudheesh V. Sreeram fell ill while driving his auto-rickshaw, a three-wheeler taxi, in Kozhikode, a town in the southwestern Indian state of Kerala. The doctors advised him to undergo a pacemaker implantation immediately. “I had no savings, even though IContinue Reading
By George Kommattam Kanhangad, August 1, 2026: Good Samaritan Sister Jaya Anto Mangalath holds the national record for the most blood donations by a woman in India. The Talent Record Book recognized her in March 2024 when she gave blood for the 117th time. Mangalath was born in Alappuzha, KeralaContinue Reading
By Thomas Scaria Mangaluru, August 1, 2026: After serving leprosy patients for two decades, Sisters Christiana Fernandes and Lucy Gomes of the Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate joined the fight against substance abuse in the southwestern Indian state of Karnataka. “We found substance addiction everywhere whether we work with leprosyContinue Reading
