By Matters India Reporter Shillong, October 14, 2024: Christian Brother Eric Steve D’Souza, a revered educator who taught Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan and Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad Sangma, died, in Goa, at the age of 74. The death occurred at 1:20 pm on October 13 at Shanti Niwas (aContinue Reading
By Kampan Chinnam Guwahati, Oct. 5, 2024: Community leaders and organizations in Manipur’s Ukhrul district have called for peace and reconciliation after clashes during a cleanliness drive on Mahatma Gandhi’s birth anniversary left four dead and five wounded. “Each heart that bleeds today is a wound on our shared soul.Continue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, Oct 3, 2024: The Supreme Court has barred remarks made by the Allahabad High Court regarding religious conversions and their impact on the country’s demographics, deeming them inappropriate. The apex court’s September 27 decision came as it granted bail to Kailash, a Christian fromContinue Reading
By Elvis Fernandes Goa Velha, Sept 30, 2024: Nature walk, biodiversity rangoli, palm leaf craft dominated an annual community festival for farmers, traditional practitioners and villagers in Goa. The Pilar Society’s department for interfaith relations has organized the “Sadbhav Mahotsav” on September 28 in collaboration with the Goa Velha Panchayat,Continue Reading
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
