By Matters India Reporter Bhubaneswar, April 8, 2022: An eastern India Catholic diocese has taken steps to prevent human trafficking, a form of modern slavery. “Odisha is one of the key labor-sending states in India. People who go out for jobs say there is nothing for them to stay inContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, April 7, 2022: A Catholic nun working among the poor, especially Dalits, has expressed shock at the exposure of an infant selling racket in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. Poverty alone is not the reason for the “rather unfortunate” racket, asserts Sister ManjuContinue Reading
By Felix Anthony Kharsang, April 1, 2022: Youth and women organizations in the northeastern Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh on April 1 took out candle light march to protest against the murder of a tribal girl. The decomposed body of Ngnem Ngaimong was found March 30. She had gone missingContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kochi, March 30, 2022: A Catholic nun on March 30 filed an appeal in the Kerala High Court against a bishop’s acquittal in a rape case. Kottayam’s Additional District and Sessions Court Judge G. Gopakumar on January 14 acquitted Bishop Franco Mulakkal of Jalandhar in theContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, March 29, 2022: Dalit Christians on March 29 urged the apostolic nuncio to revoke the appointment of Bishop Francis Kalist of Meerut as the new archbishop of Pondicherry-Cuddalore. Led by the Dalit Christian Liberation Movement, hundreds of people protested in Chennai, capital of the southernContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, March 29, 2022: The death of a Catholic bishop in a road accident in central India three years ago is making news again after his family demanded a federal probe. Claramma Constatine, a younger sister of the Bishop Thomas Thennatt says they want the probeContinue Reading
Matters India Reporter Karjat, March 29, 2022 : Salesian province of Mumbai is offering nature walks and free counseling to people of all faiths on every Friday of the year since the beginning of lent this year. Pilgrims are also welcomed daily during the Lent which started on March 2Continue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, March 28, 2022: The relatives of a former rector of Bengaluru’s St Peter’s Pontifical Institute have sought an independent probe nine years after his mysterious death on an Easter Sunday. Father K J Thomas, who had taught theology in the major seminary for 25 years,Continue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, March 26, 2022: The leader of a Catholic laity forum March 26 welcomed the refusal of the Indian Supreme Court to entertain a petition seeking the establishment of a board to monitor Christian missionaries’ activities. “Good directive from the Supreme Court,” says chhotebhai, convenerContinue Reading
By C M Paul Bengaluru, March 25, 2022: A Ukrainian nun studying in India hopes for a miracle of peace for her war-ravaged nation with the consecration of Russia and Ukraine to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. “In spiritual life, the act of good will sometimes is more important thanContinue Reading
