By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, Oct 22, 2024: A former student of Agra’s St Peter’s College has brought glory to the Catholic institution by winning the world’s largest history prize this year. Tripurdaman Singh is among nine research scholars to win the Dan David Prize that celebrates the nextContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Sonada, Oct 20, 2024: A documentary film produced by the students of the Salesian College Autonomous Sonada has won the third place in the Global Best film category at the Don Bosco Global Youth Film Festival. The third semester students of the college’s Mass Communication andContinue Reading
By Nirmala Carvalho Mumbai, Oct 18, 2024: Apostolic Carmel Sister M Nirmalini, head of the Catholic women religious in India, has urged the Synod on Synodality to remember that the poor, migrants, and refugees “must always be very close to the Church.” Sister Nirmalini, who is also the superior generalContinue Reading
By Andrea Tornielli Vatican City, Oct 7, 2024: His name was the last on the list of cardinals with which Pope Francis surprised everyone on October 6 as he spoke at the end of the noonday Angelus prayer. On December 8, Cardinal-elect George Koovakad, 51, who has been in chargeContinue Reading
By Kampan Chinnam Guwahati, Sept. 22, 2024: Five bishops from northeastern India were among 267 newly appointed prelates from five continents who successfully completed a week-long formation course at the Vatican. The program focused on fostering communion within the universal Church, says a message Bishop Benny Varghese Edathattel of ItanagarContinue Reading
By Matters Indian Reporter Rome, Sept 4, 2024: A Vatican official has applauded an Indian for her work among migrant and bonded laborers in her country. “It is indeed a risky task that requires great courage. I admire your bravery,” Sister Christi Thekkumpuram, assistant director of the Catholic Sisters ProjectContinue Reading
By Matters India Report New Delhi, July 5, 2024: A 49-year-old male nurse from India on July 5 created history when he won the Ashford seat in the British parliament by defeating the country’s former prime minister who represented the constituency for the past 27 years. Sojan Joseph, a LabourContinue Reading
By Rani Punnasseril Manila, Feb 19, 2024: As many as 54 people, including 22 from India, working among migrants in Asia were given special training to attend to migrants in the subcontinent. The February 12-17 program in the Philippines capital of Manila was organized by the Vatican Dicastery for IntegratedContinue Reading
By Nirmala Carvalho Mumbai, Nov 22, 2023: Near Gaza’s embattled Al-Shifa hospital, three nuns of Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity are current struggling to support roughly 60 trapped people, including the elderly and disabled, with only intermittent contact with the outside world, according to an India-based priest who recently spokeContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, Nov 3, 2023: Friends and associates of Sister Seli Thomas have congratulated her for winning the inaugural Sisters Anti-Trafficking Awards (SATA). “On behalf of the national Conference of Religious India we congratulate Sister Seli Thomas,” says Apostolic Carmel Sister M Nirmalini, head of India’sContinue Reading
