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
By Thomas Scaria Bengaluru, Feb 7, 2023: The Church in India is facing unprecedented situation in the current socio-political scenario that threatens religious freedom, says Archbishop Andrews Thazhath of Trichur, who was re-elected the president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI) for another two-year term. “The religious freedomContinue Reading
Matters India Reporter In a rare case of rags to riches story, an Assamese entrepreneur today heads a trillion dollar company in the U.S. employing over 4,000 people. The man in the case is Siddhartha Chowdhary, the founder of Credence, a consulting organization based in Washington DC. An alumnus ofContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, Dec 13, 2023: Sister Seli Thomas, a member of the Sisters of Mary Immaculate from India, was among three nuns who received the inaugural Sisters Anti-Trafficking Awards (SATA) on October 31. Also honored were Sr. Patricia Ebegbulem from Nigeria and Sr. Francoise Jiranonda from Thailand.Continue Reading
