By Matters India Reporter Mumbai, May 10, 2022: India’s classical music world on May 10 plunged into grief when Pandit Shivkumar Sharma, veteran santoor maestro, died of cardiac arrest in Mumbai. The 84-year-old was also suffering from renal ailments. A family source said Sharma “had a severe heart attack atContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kayamkulam, May 9, 2022: A young woman on May 9 gave up her attempt to die by suicide after a swarm of wasps attacked her atop a mobile tower. A video on social media shows an unnamed woman, dressed in salwar-kameez, climbing the tower with aContinue Reading
By Thomas Scaria Mangaluru, May 9, 2022: People in Karnataka began from May 9 to get up at 5 am to pray, sing or curse. Muslims in the southern Indian state start their day with Azaan announced through loudspeakers fit atop mosques. Hindus, on the hand, use the public addressContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, May 4, 2022: The Indian Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (ISPCK), a Protestant group, and Jesuit-managed Vidyajyoti College of Theology have published a book on synodality. Archbishop Anil J. T. Couto of Delhi released “No Synodality Without” May 3 at a function organized byContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, May 2, 2022: A court in Kerala has awarded 18 years of rigorous imprisonment to a Catholic priest for sexually abusing four minor seminarians. The Additional Sessions Court dealing with POCSO (Protection of Children from Sexual Offences) cases on April 29 found Father ThomasContinue Reading
By Felix Anthony Guwahati, May 2, 2022: The fifth National Catholic Youth Conference will be held in North East Region in October 2023. The decision was made at the end of the fourth conference held April 26-May 1 at Nadiad, Gujarat, western India. Regional youth director Fransalian Father John BarmanContinue Reading
By Mathew Korattiyil Pune, May 2, 2022: A two-day drive against child labor and beggary has reached thousands of people in Pune, the cultural capital of Maharashtra state in western India. Pune-based Sarva Seva Sangh (union at the service of all) of the Divine Word Society conducted the April 29-30Continue Reading
Vatican City, April 29, 2022: Pope Francis on April 29 said changes to an advisory body on preventing sexual abuse represented a fresh start in the fight against pedophile priests but conceded “much remains to be done”. The Pope in March moved the Commission for the Protection of Minors intoContinue Reading
Hyderabad: Medak Diocese Bishop Reverend AC Soloman said Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao was safeguarding the secular fabric in Telangana by according equal importance to all communities. The Medak Diocese Bishop along with MLC Rajeshwar Rao laid the foundation stone for a new church coming up at the new StateContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kolkata, April 28, 2022: Journalists across India have mourned the sudden death of a senior colleague, who reported interfaith matters. Shyamal Baran Roy, a disciple of the Ramakrishna Math who attended Mother Teresa’s canonization in Rome in 2016, died April 27 in Kolkata, eastern India. HeContinue Reading
