By Lissy Maruthanakuzhy Secunderabad, Feb 24, 2025: Montfort Brother Varghese Theckanath is on a journey to make the voice of the voiceless heard in the main stream society. “Many interesting things happen among them, but only when a misfortune happens, their stories are reported,” bemoans Brother Theckanath, a grassroots activistContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Marayoor, Feb 15, 2025: Sister Jean Rose, a member of the Sisters of the Destitute, has made history as the first nun to be appointed as a medical officer in a Kerala government hospital. According to the “Voice of Nuns,” an initiative of the Kerala ConferenceContinue Reading
By Lissy Maruthanakuzhy Panaji, Feb 8, 2025: Canossian Sister Grasy Luisa Rodrigues received the Common Good Award at the Sisters’ Anti-Trafficking Awards May 23, 2024, in Rome for saving trafficking victims for the past 13 years. She also educates youth about the Indian Juvenile Justice Act, cyber safety and onlineContinue Reading
By Purushottam Nayak Bhubaneswar, Nov 11, 2024: The daughter of a bangle selling tribal couple in Odisha now thanks Jesus for helping her become a model for the marginalized in the eastern Indian state. Runita Pradhan, a Catholic woman from Kandhamal’s Brahasalka village near Daringbadi town in Kandhamal district, hasContinue Reading
By Joe Eruppakkatt Pune, July 26, 2024: The Society of Paul superior general Father Domenico Solliman has appointed Father Jose Pottayil as the director of the Madrid-based International Catholic Biblical Society that was set up a hundred years ago by Venerable James Alberione, the congregation’s founder. Father Pottayil is theContinue Reading
By Lissy Maruthanakuzhy Ottapalam, July 17, 2024: When K V Sajeesh failed in his tenth-grade exam, everyone expected him to join his parents as a daily wager. But today, around 600 neurosurgeons and 380 cardiac surgeons depend on him to do their job. The 34-year-old founder director of Kay VeeContinue Reading
By Joe Palathunkal Kanakkari, June 25, 2024: Sojan Joseph has run nine international marathons for charities so far, each marathon of 42 kilometres. But, come July 4, the native of Kaipuzha in Kerala’s Kottayam district will run his longest distance to the British parliament, politically. “Being elected as an MPContinue Reading
By Thomas Scaria Kottayam, June 2024: Sister Ardra Kuzhinapurathu is the first woman to head the major superiors of Kerala, the southern Indian state that has produced the largest number of Catholic religious men and women in the country. The member of Sisters of the Imitation of Christ (Bethany), congregationContinue Reading
By Joseph Jerald New Delhi, April 30, 2024: Andrew Heanngam Pamei from Manipur aspired to be an Indian civil service officer, but fate had it that the 27-year-old now spends his time translating the Bible to Rongmei, his mother language, widely spoken in Manipur and in other northeastern Indian states.Continue Reading
By John Singarayar Mumbai, April 3, 2024: “History will be kinder to me than the media,” were the final remarks of Manmohan Singh before he resigned as India’s prime minister, following the BJP’s victory in 2014. On April 3 this year, he resigned from the Rajya Sabha after 33 yearsContinue Reading
