By Rajesh Bagh G. Udayagiri, Dec. 31, 2018: As cold wave sweeps across the Kandhamal district of Odisha state in eastern India reels many remain indoors, except women vendors. They have to brave the 6 degree Celsius to sell vegetables in the street — 25 rupees a kilo of beansContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, Dec. 29, 2018: It was in the second week of December that advocate Jose Abraham received a call from the Austrian Embassy in Delhi requesting for a meeting. The subsequent meeting made things different for ever for the Pravasi Legal Cell, a New Delhi-basedContinue Reading
By Lissy Maruthanakuzhy Rome, Dec. 28, 2018: Forty six years ago when Giuseppe Ianni began working on a nativity scene in Rome people asked, “What are you doing?” He answered them, “I am setting up the most beautiful Nativity scene in Rome and the Pope will visit it.” The PopesContinue Reading
By Philip Mathew Bengaluru, Dec. 27, 2018: Sr. Lilly Chunkapura, 68, is the founder-director of Treatment Rehabilitation and Education of Drug Abuse, an addiction and counseling center, in Bengaluru, southern India. Chunkapura, a member of the Medical Mission Sisters congregation, founded TREDA in the early ’90s with the support ofContinue Reading
Matters India Reporter Kolkata, Dec. 25, 2018: Thousands of visitors of all religious beliefs visiting the historic Bandel Church in Hooghly district this year would get to see for the first time a human-size crib set with the theme of Annunciation and Nativity – “Divine Birth of Lord Jesus Christ”.Continue Reading
By Saji Thomas Kochi, Dec. 18, 2018: Ouseph Pappachan, a physically challenged farmer in flood-ravaged Kerala, says he and his wife are alive now because of Sister Regin Mathew. “I did not feel like living after floods destroyed all I had. But the sister convinced me there is life beyondContinue Reading
Santander, Dec. 18, 2018: How do you go from being a bartender who has not attended Mass for 15 years to becoming a priest? For Father Juan de Cáceres, the answer is that God was persistent in pursing his heart and revealing his call. Today, Fr. Juan is a priestContinue Reading
By Francis Sunil Rosario If Bangladesh can claim a strong local Church with native leadership in all its dioceses, much of the credit should go to the missionary endeavors of the Holy Cross Fathers from the United States, who served the country since 1852. Even before the Second Vatican CouncilContinue Reading
Priyanka Tamaichikar is used to hearing the screams of newly-married women in her neighborhood as they are beaten up the morning after their wedding night. Everyone in the Kanjarbhat community of Maharashtra, India, knows the reason for these beatings: the bride has failed to pass the virginity test, a traditionContinue Reading
Darjeeling is one of India’s oldest municipalityContinue Reading