By Najiya O Calicut, March 27, 2022: Jushna Shahin’s earliest memories are of watching football matches on TV with her family in Kerala’s Mangattuparamb village. As a die-hard Lionel Messi fan, Shahin got her chance to do her bit for the game in 2009 when she was selected among theContinue Reading
By Thomas Scaria Mangalore, March 15, 2022: Little Michael was born Feb. 23, a day before Russian invaded Ukraine. After spending five days in a bunker, he felt safe in the arms of a Catholic nun. Sister Ligi Payyappilly, an Indian nun who has been sheltering refugees in her conventContinue Reading
By Thomas Scaria Mukachevo, March 7, 2022: An Indian Catholic nun and her associates are working round-the-clock to help stranded students and others fleeing war-torn Ukraine. “God is using me to save people from death in Ukraine,” said Sister Ligi Payyappilly, the 48-year-old superior of the Sisters of St. JosephContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Vatican City, Oct 30, 2021: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on October 30 invited Pope Francis to India. The Indian premier, who is in Italy to attend the G-20 summit, extended the invitation during his a one-on-one meeting with the Pope in Vatican City. “Had a veryContinue Reading
By Donna Birrell London, Oct 16, 2021: Former Anglican Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali of Rochester, a native of Pakistan, has been received into the Catholic Church ahead of being ordained to the Catholic priesthood. He is part of the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham which was established ten years agoContinue Reading
By Mabel Kaithavelil Rome: Sister Vandana Fernandes, an Indian, has been elected the superior general of the Rome-based Ursulines of Mary Immaculate (UMI) congregation. The election took place October 4 during the congregation’s 66th general chapter now being held at its headquarters. The chapter, animated by Jesuit Father M KContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Bhubaneswar, Sept. 29, 2021: A tribal environmental activist from Odisha is one of the participants of the ‘Youth4Climate,’ the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in Milan, Italy. Archana Soreng is one of the seven members of the UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres’ youth advisory group onContinue Reading
By Thomas Scaria Mangaluru: Sister Theresa Crasta is the only woman religious from India who was rescued by the Indian government from Afghanistan in August after the Taliban captured Kabul. Crasta belongs to the Congregation of the Sisters of Charity of Saints Bartolomea Capitanio and Vincenza Gerosa, or Sisters ofContinue Reading
Rome: The Claretian missionaries on August 30 re-elected Indian Father Mathew Vattamattam as its superior general during the congregation’s general chapter in Rome. Father Vattamattam was born on May 30, 1959, in Kalathoor, Kerala, southern India. He did his basic studies at St. Mary School, Kalathoor, and his secondary studiesContinue Reading
New Delhi: No gunshots have been heard since the Taliban took control of Kabul but the situation is precarious and getting more so with each passing hour, say four Indian teachers in war-ravaged Afghanistan, appealing for immediate evacuation so they can return to their families back home. All four areContinue Reading
