By Matters India Reporter Vatican, Sept.24, 2024: Prefect of the Vatican Dicastery for Communication Paolo Ruffini on September 24 inaugurated the ‘Illuminaire’ website. This marked the launch of the first national Catholic media conference, organized by the Salesian communication departments in Rome and India, in collaboration with the Vatican DicasteryContinue Reading
By Kampan Chinnam Guwahati, Sept. 24, 2024: More than 100 educators from all over northeastern India have attended a training on financial management of educational institutions. “Internal honesty should reflect in external accounting,” asserted Vittal Rao Lokare, a Chartered Accountant, who addressed the key aspects of financial management on SeptemberContinue Reading
By Vasantha Prathipati Pune, Sept 13, 2024: India’s newly enacted criminal laws expand police authority that could impact civil liberties and increase case backlogs in the already strained judicial system, warn some Catholic lawyers. Around 40 lawyer nuns, Brothers and priests from across India attended a training program on theContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Jarora, July 31, 2024: The student wing of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Madhya Pradesh state has hung the portraits of Hindu goddess in a Catholic school where statutes of Jesus, Mother Mary and other saints were kept. Some 50 young members of theContinue Reading
Joanita Dias Panaji, July 29, 2024: Grandparents Day was celebrated in different parishes beginning on 26, the Feast of St Anne. The theme of this year is “Do not cast me off in my old age” (cf. Psalm 71:9). Pope Francis, instituted the grandparents Day in 2021 with the themeContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Itanagar, July 17, 2024 — Chief Minister of right wing Hindu Bharatiya Janata Party ruling northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh had words of appreciation and praise for a group of Catholic Church leaders visiting him on July 17. In his official Facebook post Chief Minister PemaContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, July 5, 2024: The United Christian Forum (UCF), an ecumenical group, has expressed anguish over what it calls “saffron-tinged” ruling of the Allahabad High Court. Justice Rohit Ranjan Aggarwal, while rejecting the bail application of a person accused under Uttar Pradesh state’s anti-conversion law,Continue Reading
By Lissy Maruthanakuzhy Kottayam, June 24, 2024: Neighbors of Shanti Bhavan (home of peace), a Missionaries of Charity center in Kerala’s Kottayam town, have expressed surprise at the closure of the center that had served the poor and destitute for half a century. The center, opened by Mother Teresa inContinue Reading
By Victor Edwin New Delhi, June 20, 2024: The Indian Theological Association (ITA) has applauded the country’s citizens for rejecting the exclusive majoritarian government of the last decade and instead, choosing inclusive coalition politics in the recently held general elections. The majority of Indian voters have overwhelmingly opposed populism, polarization,Continue Reading
By Nirmala Carvalho Mumbai, June 8, 2024 – On the feast day of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, the Archdiocese of Bombay celebrated World Day of Prayer for the Sanctification of Priests in the Basilica of Our Lady of the Mount in the Bandra area in Mumbai. This was partContinue Reading
