By Patrick Hansda New Delhi, June 23, 2022: Caritas India, the social development arm of the Catholic bishops in India, has been awarded for its excellent work in humanitarian aid and disaster risk reduction, community health, climate-adaptive agriculture and food sovereignty. Fathers Jolly Puthenpura, Caritas India’s assistant executive director andContinue Reading
By I P Sarto Burdwan, June 19, 2022: Family day celebration on the feast of the Body and Blood of Chris brought joyful tears to husbands and wives in a rural and tribal in an eastern Indian state. Thomas Parish, Ekpere, situated about 140 km northwest of Kolkata, capital ofContinue Reading
By Purushottam Nayak Kandhamal, June 16, 2022: About 500 people – Hindus and Christians – June 16 observed the second death anniversary of Chandrakanta Pradhan, a Catholic from Odisha who died in the skirmish between Indian and Chinese armies in the Galwan Valley of Ladakh region “The death of ChandrakantaContinue Reading
By Nirmala Carvalho Pune, June 16, 2022: A Catholic bishop in India has reached out to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, the umbrella organization of Hindu nationalists groups. On June 12 in Pune, the cultural capital of the western Indian state of Maharashtra, Bishop Thomas Dabre of Poona took part inContinue Reading
Dimapur, June 15, 2022: Most children in Nagaland with intellectual disabilities do not have valid certificate to avail government benefits, says an officer of the National Institute for the Empowerment of Persons with Intellectual Disabilities. Doctor Ravi Prakash Singh, officer-in-charge of the institute’s regional center in Navi Mumbai, was inContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kochi, Jun 14, 2022: An organization formed to support Catholic nuns in distress, on June 14 petitioned Pope Francis against the alleged move to “reinstate” Bishop Franco Mulakkal as head of the diocese of Jalandhar. The appeal from Save Our Sisters (SOS) claims that a trialContinue Reading
By Francis Fernandes Mumbai, June 14, 2022: The Labour Commission of the archdiocese of Bombay has felicitated Christine Nathan, the newly elected president of Council of the International Catholic Migration Commission (ICMC). Nathan, a member of Bombay archdiocesan labor commission, is the first Asian and second woman to head theContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, June 8, 2022: A Catholic priest says he has not overcome the trauma of kidnap and robbery even a week after the incident. “I am alive today only because of God’s grace. I was afraid the gang would kill and bury me at a placeContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, June 8, 2022: A Catholic nun has come to public with allegations of torture and mental harassment from her congregation. Sister Elcina, nee K V Sudha, a member the Daughters of Our Lady of Mercy, an Italian congregation, made the revelation to media on JuneContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Imphal, June 6, 2022: All Catholic educational institutions in Manipur will close June 7 to protest an explosion on the premises of a Church school in Imphal, capital of the northeastern Indian state. The decision was taken during an emergency meeting with the Catholic Educational SocietyContinue Reading