By Lissy Maruthanakuzhy New Delhi, Dec 6, 2025: On October 29, more than 50,0000 people of different religions thronged a parish in Kerala. What drew them to St John the Baptist Church in Nedumkunnam, a parish under Changanacherry archdiocese, was a unique offering, or nercha, served on its annual feastContinue Reading
By Thomas Scaria Changanacherry, Dec 3, 2025: The Catholic Church in India has set up an exclusive mental health ministry amid increasing reports of suicide and depression among priests and nuns in the country. “Unfortunately, the Church’s healing ministry was centered on physical health until recently. We had conveniently forgottenContinue Reading
By Thomas Scaria Bengaluru, Nov 7, 2025: Manjunath Muniappa was just 8 years old when a Catholic nun spotted him on the street during a leprosy detection survey in Bengaluru, capital of Karnataka state in southwestern India. Sister Mary Mascarenhas, a member of the St. Joseph’s of Tarbes congregation, broughtContinue Reading
By Thomas Scaria Mangaluru, Sept. 17, 2025: A woman with an intellectual disability, known only as Sangeetha, was abused by a group of lorry drivers and abandoned at Nelyady, a town in the southern Indian state of Karnataka. Some Catholic nuns noticed Sangeetha roaming the town and brought her toContinue Reading
C. M. Paul Kochi, August 16, 2025 — For years, eight-year-old Aarav carried more than a school bag; he carried the quiet burden of being misunderstood. Labeled “inattentive” and “slow,” he struggled with frustration and confusion in a system that didn’t know how to reach him. But within weeks ofContinue Reading
By George Kommattam Kattippara, July 19, 2025: Leela Shaji led a life of fear and insecurity for 20 years until a Catholic nun brought her alcoholic husband to the Santhwana De-Addiction Centre in Kerala, southern India. Eight years later, her husband, Shaji Thundassery, credits the Sacred Heart sisters at theContinue Reading
C.M. Paul Jilingsereng, July 10, 2025: Nestled nearly 1,000 feet above sea level, some 25 kilometers from the nearest signs of urban life, lies Jilingsereng, a remote tribal hamlet in West Bengal’s Purulia district. Hidden deep within a forest zone and 15 kilometers from the main road, this village ofContinue Reading
By Thomas Scaria Mangaluru, March 18, 2025: A recent incident where a trainee nun has been accused of killing her newborn has not only shaken the Catholic Church in India but highlighted an “urgent need” to revise the way religious are formed, Sister Molly Mathew, a member of the MissionaryContinue Reading
By George Kommattam Calicut, March 10, 2025: Hundreds of people on March 10 attended the Eucharistic Miracles Expo at a church in Kerala’s Kozhikode town, organized by a six-year-old movement to revive the devotion to the Blessed Sacrament. “The main cause of the decline in faith is the diminishing devotionContinue Reading
By Thomas Scaria Talapady, Feb 20, 2025: Father Gregory Pereira, a priest of Mangalore diocese in southern India, is called different names in parishes he has served. In Bantwal, he was “Papaya Father,” and in Narampady, “Kumbalakai Father.” In Talapady where he now serves, he is “Dragon Father.” The parishionersContinue Reading
