Thiruvananthapuram: The Latin Catholic Church has deferred their proposed strike for Tuesday after the Kerala government assured the clergy that the believers’ freedom to worship at Kurisumala, a controversial pilgrimage center, will be protected. The decision comes after archbishop M Soosa Pakiam held talks with forest minister K Raju. TheContinue Reading
New Delhi: Indian Currents, a 21-year-old publication by Catholic Church has withdrawn its cover story ‘Cardinal Sin’ “under obedience” by its chief editor Dr Suresh Mathew. They had probed the land dealings by their internal team against Cardinal Mar Alencherry, the major archbishop of Syro-Malabar church. Indian Currents is aContinue Reading
Union tourism minister KJ Alphons denies that the announcement was aimed at wooing voters, especially the Christian community.Continue Reading
Kochi: Even as Cardinal Mar George Alencherry postponed the presbyteral council meet on Thursday following dramatic events, the priests’ group wants the Syro-Malabar church synod’s intervention to call a presbyteral council immediately. Presbyteral council secretary Fr Kuriakose Mundadan has sent a letter to 62 bishops who attend the synod andContinue Reading
Thiruvanathapuram: Priests and nuns under Neyyattinkara Latin Catholic diocese would observe a fast in front of the state Secretariat on Tuesday, demanding permission to carry out pilgrimage to Bonacaud Kurisumala. Immediate intervention of chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan was also sought by them. In a pastoral letter read out at theContinue Reading
Tura: Thousands of Catholic faithful on Sunday thronged churches across the five districts of Garo Hills to hold special prayers during a day of protest against rising cases of attacks on Christians and minorities by right wing groups in North India. In their sermon priests across the region urged theContinue Reading
Hyderabad: The Syro-Malabar Catholic Church on Sunday marked a historic moment with the inauguration of the Shamshabad Diocese here with pan-India jurisdiction, excluding the existing 30 dioceses, which the Latin Church had taken over in 1886. The diocese has jurisdiction over all the Syro-Malabar Christians in 23 states and twoContinue Reading
Tura: An attempt by right wing Hindu fanatical groups allegedly led by Bajrang Dal and ABVP to forcibly try and organise their ritual of worship inside a Catholic institution in Madhya Pradesh on Thursday has sent shockwaves across the Christian community in Meghalaya. The Catholic Church in Garo Hills isContinue Reading
Matters India Reporter New Delhi: A day after police foiled the attempt of a right wing Hindu group to perform aarti of Bharat mata in the premises of a Catholic post graduate college in Sagar diocese in Madhya Pradesh state, a fresh ultimatum has been issued to do it againContinue Reading
New Delhi: Cold conditions persisted in the northern states and claimed four lives in Uttar Pradesh as dense fog engulfed parts of the plains adding to the woes of the people. Gulmarg and Pahalgam in Kashmir and some places in Himachal Pradesh witnessed snowfall, while an avalanche hit a cabContinue Reading