By Stanislaus Alla New Delhi, April 10, 2024: Jesuit Father Ladislaus Chinnadurai, who had taught former Indian President Abdul Kalam, died at 5 pm on April 10 at Beschi Illam, Dindigul, in Tamil Nadu. He was 100. According to the Jesuit Madurai province, the funeral services will be held atContinue Reading
By Thomas Scaria. Kannur, April 10, 2024: A unique community housing project has inaugurated its first house at a village in Kerala’s Kannur district. The Project Shelter team handed over the house built with people’s participation to Adarsh on April 6, a disabled person with severe cerebral palsy, and hisContinue Reading
New Delhi, April 10, 2024: The Delhi High Court has stepped in to protect a 40-year-of mosque from the demolition squad of the Delhi Development Authority (DDA). The court on April 8 also issued notices to Dda and the Delhi Religious Committee after Faizyab Masjid and Madarsa filed a petitionContinue Reading
By Lissy Maruthanakuzhy Cortalim, April 2, 2024: St Joseph Vaz College in the western Indian state of Goa has observed the international April Fools Day on a different note. The botany department of the college at Cortalim in association with the Rotary Club of Madgaon Midtown celebrated April 1 asContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, March 28, 2024: Catholic communicators in India have mourned the death of James Kottoor, a former editor of the Chennai-based New Leader publication and a prolific writer who helped spread the Vatican II reforms in India. Kottoor died March 27 in Kochi, Kerala, where heContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Imphal, March 27, 2024: The Catholic Church is observing the Holy Week with churches packed with refugees in the northeastern Indian state of Manipur where ethnic violence has raged for 11 months. Father Varghese Velickakam, vicar-general of Imphal archdiocese that covers the entire state, said theyContinue Reading
By Stan Alla New Delhi, March 23, 2024: The Lithuanian Embassy in New Delhi on March 22 organized a function to recall the services of a Jesuit priest who worked more than six decades among the poor in the western Indian state of Maharashtra. Jesuit Father Donatas Slapsys, born inContinue Reading
By Thomas Scaria Mangaluru, March 19, 2024: Jesuit Father Praveen Martis has been appointed the first vice chancellor of the newly created St. Aloysius Deemed to University in Mangaluru. This was announced March 19 by Jesuit Karnataka provincial Father Dionysius Vaz, the university chancellor, in the southwestern India city. FatherContinue Reading
By Riju Kanjookaren Kochi, March 13, 2024: The cultural and literary society in Kochi, Kerala, came together on March 13 to bid farewell to Father Paul Thelakat who stepped down as the longest serving editor of the leading Catholic weekly in the southern Indian state. Father Thelakat “has achieved immortalityContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Bhubaneswar, March 12, 2024: As many as 500 Catholic women in the eastern Indian city of Bhubaneswar celebrated the International Women’s Day by pledging to foster women’s empowerment and gender equality through education. The women came to the March 10 event from various Mass centers ofContinue Reading
