Pontotoc, July 27, 2019: It’s a long way from northeast India to Immanuel Baptist Church in Northeast Mississippi – about 8,000 miles to be exact. It’s a journey the Reverends A.K. and Asangla Lama of Transforming Leaders in Asia (TLA) have been making for the past few years as partContinue Reading
By Arrington Luck Mclean, July 27, 2019: Drawn from places as varied as Arizona and London, New York and India, hundreds of volunteers last week found themselves in an unassuming hotel just outside Washington, joining together near the nation’s capital to help its homeless. Traditional Indian music blared in aContinue Reading
Kochi, July 22, 2019: Mounting ire of Catholics in Australia has forced Father Dominic Valanmanal, an Indian charismatic retreat preacher, to cancel his program in September at Melbourne. Australia is the third country after Ireland and Canada to deny the priest permission to conduct retreats after his controversial sermon onContinue Reading
New York, July 19, 2019: A 51-year old Indian-origin woman was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment and ordered to forfeit more than US$7 million for her role in smuggling hundreds of undocumented people, primarily from India. In June last year, Hema Patel pleaded guilty to alien smuggling for financial gainContinue Reading
Wollongong, July 18, 2019: International students from India studying at Australian universities gathered in Wollongong on July 17 for a cultural event deemed so important it was opened by two bishops. The Syro Malabar Youth Movement Wollongong, an initiative of the Syro Malabar Catholic Church, invited the students to WollongongContinue Reading
Sydney, July 17, 2019: Father Paul Murphy has become rather fond of Indian food. Fortunately, the Holy Redeemer parish priest doesn’t have to go far to satisfy his craving for dishes from the sub-continent. In fact, he doesn’t even have to leave the Whitney Pier rectory where he resides. ItContinue Reading
By Mary Brazell Kenthurst, July 9, 2019: While serving as a young priest in Tamil Nadu, southern India, Father Vincent Savarimuthu was almost run out of his parish. “I was sent to the parish of Kamuthi, where the demography was lower caste. This parish was so peculiar, as there wereContinue Reading
Boston, July 1, 2019: A group of more than 50 people from all walks of life from the Greater Boston area assembled in Harvard Square in Cambridge, MA, to protest against the unabated pace of mob lynching and the growing threat to human rights of citizens in India, especially thoseContinue Reading
By: Matters India Reporter Calgary, June 24, 2019: A Catholic diocese in Canada has cancelled a retreat to be given there in July by Indian priest Fr Dominic Valanmanal who has been preaching that an increased incidence of autism and hyperactivity in children is due to their parents’ lifestyle. EarlierContinue Reading
Washington, June 17, 2019: A 44-year-old Indian-American IT professional and his three family members have been found dead with gunshot wounds inside their home in the US state of Iowa. The bodies of Chandrasekhar Sunkara, wife Lavanya, 41, their 15-year-old and a 10-year-old sons were found in their home onContinue Reading
