By Matters India Reporter Panaji, Feb 28, 2022: Archbishop Filipe Neri Ferrao of Goa-Daman has urged people in his archdiocese to celebrate the 400th year of Saint Francis Xavier’s canonization. Saint Francis Xavier was undoubtedly one of the greatest evangelizers the Catholic Church, earning him the title of the PatronContinue Reading
By C M Paul Kolkata, Feb 26, 2022: A Salesian Brother who reached out to all irrespective of their religions died in Kolkata, eastern India. Brother Sushanto Biswas died of cardiac arrest at 3.40 pm February 25 at Kolkata’s Rabindranath Tagore International Institute of Cardiac Sciences. He was 76. AContinue Reading
By Midhun J Francis New Delhi, Feb 25, 2022: The Islamic Studies Association has published a book on dialogue to mark its 40th anniversary. The book titled, “A Call to Dialogue: Christians in Dialogue with Muslims,” was presented to scholars and students at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome FebruaryContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kottayam, Feb 22, 2022: Bishop Franco Mulakkal of Jalandhar will take classes during an exclusive seminar for Catholic priests in Kerala, southern India. Christeen, a Catholic Charismatic movement for children, is organizing the February 24 seminar in Kottayam, a major tow in Kerala. The seminar willContinue Reading
By Kelly Valencia Bartlesville, Feb 22, 2022: A US watchdog has said the Chinese government is currently rewriting the Bible to align it with Communist principles and values. Speaking to FaithWire, spokesman for Voice of the Martyrs (VOM), Todd Nettleton said the new translation would “really support the Communist Party.”Continue Reading
By Paul Anand New Delhi, Feb 22, 2022: The Islamic Studies Association, Delhi and the Jesuit Secretariat for Service of Faith in South Asia jointly organized a series of webinars to celebrate Human Fraternity Day. Three leading international speakers – Professors Edward Joseph Alam (Notre Dame University, Beirut, Lebanon), GabrielContinue Reading
By Robin Gomes Rome, Feb 17, 2022: India’s Latin-rite bishops are planning a series of events to celebrate the life and holiness of the country’s first layman and martyr who will be officially declared a saint in 3 months’ time. They are holding up the figure of Blessed Devasahayam asContinue Reading
By Christopher Wells Vatican City, Feb 16, 2022: Pope Francis has modified canon law for both the Latin Church and the Eastern Churches, changing the areas of competence for various bodies within the universal Church. This was done through a new motu proprio (on his own initiative) published February 15Continue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Panaji, Feb 12, 2022: The Cloistered Carmel at Chicalim in the Archdiocese of Goa-Daman on February 12 celebrated 75 years of its foundation with a concelebrated Mass. Archbishop Filipe Neri Ferrao of Goa-Daman, presiding over the Eucharist, appreciated the Carmelite community saying, “So many people haveContinue Reading
By Robancy A Helen Trichy, Feb 8, 2022: Dalit Catholic groups in India have welcomed Apostolic Nuncio Archbishop Leopoldo Girelli’s appreciation of their demands and his support to the Church’s Dalit policy. ‘I appreciate the immediate response of the apostolic nuncio to India,” Mathew Gnanapragasam, convener of the Tamil NaduContinue Reading
