By Santosh Digal Bhubaneswar: A Catholic priest in an eastern Indian state has managed to convince Ho tribe’s first generation children to go to school. Father Xavier Camil Tirkey, parish priest of Dhanmandal in Jajpur district of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar archdiocese, has worked among Ho tribes of Jajapur district, Odisha, for theContinue Reading
By Saramma Emmanuel Indore: Rama Bai feels excited as one of her long cherished dreams has came true after three decades. “Now I have an identity and nobody can ill-treat me or forbid me from collecting waste,” a jubilant Bai told Matters India on December 19. The 55-year old motherContinue Reading
Vatican City: Every day in the remote villages of Northeast India courageous priests and nuns are braving the elements of the wild – including tiger attacks and elephant stampedes – to bring the Good News to people who have yet to hear the name of Jesus. People in these “unreached”Continue Reading
New Delhi: Music knows no boundaries, religion and caste. And music is all around us. Likewise, sound, rhythm, tune are no strange to the people of northeast region. Looking at the early stage and the history, music played an important role in the region. Through music, stories of different timeContinue Reading
Bengaluru: The message of female empowerment and equality can come in any form and one such exemplar of woman power undoubtedly is a 105-year-old woman from India who has worked with perseverance and dedication toward her cause. The life of Saalumarada Thimmakka, an environmentalist from Karnataka, who has earned aContinue Reading
‘My mission has always been to end the oppression of my people. The goal has not changed.’
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Thirteen kilometers away from the city of Udupi in Karnataka, nestled amid the verdant hills, lies the historically rich village of Brahmavar – an otherwise nondescript settlement that is home to the world’s only Konkani-speaking Orthodox parish. Towards the end of the 19th century, around 4,000 Catholic families comprising predominantlyContinue Reading
by Saji Thomas Bhopal: Manisha Ahirwar is only ten-year- old. She, unlike children of her age, attends regular sessions of physiotherapy and other exercises at a clinic meant for children of survivors of Bhopal gas tragedy born with deformities. At first sight, she looks healthy, but she can neither speakContinue Reading
by Saji Thomas Family members and neighbors of Sr. Anselm Minj say the Missionaries of Charity nun who was killed in Yemen eight months ago by ISIS rebels is their new intercessor in heaven. “She is a martyr in every sense for us,” says Vincent Minj, the nun’s eldest brotherContinue Reading
By Santosh Digal Colombo: Taize prayer, an ecumenical form of worship, has become an integral part of the plenary assemblies of the Federation of the Asian Bishops’ Conference (FABC) for past 16 years. It started after Archbishop Thomas Menamparampil, who was the then chairperson of the FABC Office of Evangelization,Continue Reading
