By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, Nov 20, 2021: The Pauline family has mourned their first two Indian members, who died within two days. Sister Scholastica D’Souza, the first Indian to join the Daughters of St Paul, died November 18, aged 88. A day earlier, Sister Maria Lucia Bernice BoucheContinue Reading
By Anand Mathew Coorg, Nov 8, 2021: Father Snehanand, a member of the Indian Missionary Society (IMS) who trained innumerable batches of future missionary priests and religious sisters, died November 8 in Mysore, Karnataka. The death occurred at 6:10 am in St. Joseph’s Hospital in Mysore. He was coma forContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Bengaluru, Nov. 1, 2021: Pope Francis on November 1 promoted Auxiliary Bishop Telesphore Bilung of Ranchi as the bishop of Jamshedpur. The appointment was announced at 12 noon Rome time and its corresponding time 3:30 pm in India, says a press release from Father Stephen Alathara,Continue Reading
By Christopher Khoo Singapore, Oct. 25, 2021: A Chinese Buddhist temple, a Christian church and a Sathya Sai Baba Centre stand side by side along Moulmein Road in Singapore, the world’s most religiously diverse nation, according to a 2014 analysis by the Pew Research Center. The Southeast Asian city stateContinue Reading
By Christopher Khoo Singapore, Oct 22, 2021: For too long, the Church hierarchy has held consultations between bishops and priests, and between bishops and the pope, without involving the laity seriously. However, unless the hierarchy identifies with the pains of the people, it would not be able to come upContinue Reading
By Pratapananda Naik Miramar, Oct. 18, 2021: Jesuits’ former Goa provincial, Father Rosario Rocha, who was a polyglot and scholar of Buddhism, died October 18 in Pune, western India. He was 69. His funeral will be October 19 evening in Pune. Father Rocha was serving as the spiritual director ofContinue Reading
By George Cheriyan Kottayam, Oct.16, 2021: The Kerala-based Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church has elected its supreme head The enthronement of Mathews Mar Severios Metropolitan was held October 15 at Parumala in Pathanamthitta district. During the enthronement, the new head became the Catholicos of the East with the name Baselios MarContinue Reading
By Shiji Abraham Mumbai, Oct 14, 2021: Members of a Mumbai parish say a virtual program on the Bible conducted by nuns has helped them understand the importance of reading the Word of God. “It was good to talk to the sisters who listened to me and my struggles. TheyContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Bengaluru, Oct. 8, 2021: A lecture series on dialogue between Christianity and Hinduism ended October 7, after six months. The lectures were held in collaboration with Sri Ramakrishna Mission, Office of Dialogue and Ecumenism of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India, Focolare Movement and Ecumenical ChristianContinue Reading
By: Lissy Maruthanakuzhy Urging the faithful of the Archdiocese to pray the Rosary during the month of October dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary, Archbishop Filipe Neri Ferrao of Goa and Daman appealed “particularly in homes, and religious communities, to pray without fail at least five decades every day.” “It isContinue Reading
