By Jose Kalapura Patna, Dec 24, 2019: A Christmas Milan (gathering) in Patna noted that the Christmas message of peace to people of good is very relevant today when society is being divided and violence is committed in the name of religion. Some 200 people, mostly leaders from various religions,Continue Reading
By Adolf Washington Bengaluru, Dec 24, 2019: More than 20,000 people on December 23 converged at a mosque in Bengaluru to protest the newly enacted Citizenship Amendment Act. More than 35 NGO too joined the protest. Various groups teamed-up at different corners on the roads voicing their protest. People beganContinue Reading
Chandigarh, Dec. 23, 2019: After 38 years, the bell atop Shimla’s landmark Christ Church on the Ridge will ring in Christmas. “We had been listening to the bell and the chimes since childhood but they stopped ringing 38 years ago. The church did not have adequate funds for repair,” saysContinue Reading
Miao, December 21 : The Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conference (FABC) has appointed Bishop George Pallipparambil of Miao Diocese, Arunachal Pradesh, to lead the Office of Evangelization in Asia for a period of three years starting from 1 January 2020. The appointment of Bishop PK, as he is fondly calledContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Bengaluru, Dec 23, 2019: The Conference of Catholic Bishops of India (CCBI), the national body of the Latin rite bishops in the country, will open extension of its secretariat in Goa. Shanti Sadan (house of peace) is coming up at Benaulim, nearly 40 km south ofContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, Dec 20, 2019: Jesus was born with questionable identities of citizenship, place of origin and even parenthood, points out Father George Pattery, the head of more than 4,000 Jesuits in India, where a recent amendment to the citizenship law has provoked countrywide uproar. “InContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Mananthavady, Dec 19, 2019: A court in Kerala on December 19 allowed a Catholic nun dismissed from her congregation to remain at her convent. The Mananthavady Munsiff Court that heard the petition from Sister Lucy Kalappura gave an injunction to her ouster from the convent andContinue Reading
Thiruvananthapuram, Dec 18, 2019: Archbishop Soosa Pakiam M. of the Latin Archdiocese of Thiruvananthapuram has come out against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, terming it discriminatory. Discrimination against anyone in a democratic and secular country like India was unacceptable, the Archbishop said at a press conference here on Dec 18. TheContinue Reading
By Joanna Slater BANGALORE, India — The sun was climbing in the morning sky as a man in his late 50s stripped to his underwear and prepared to lower himself into a pit of sewage. Kaverappa looked down into the shaft behind a house on the southern rim of India’sContinue Reading
Authorities in the Japanese city of Hiroshima have planned to demolish two buildings that survived the 1945 atomic bomb, but some locals want them preserved as landmarks, as reported on Dec. 16. The two buildings, built in 1913, were first used as a military clothing factory, and later as aContinue Reading
