By Matters India Reporter Kochi, May 30, 2023: The Vatican has directed the Synod of Bishops of the Syro-Malabar Church to hold an emergency meeting to resolve the controversy over celebration of Mass in the archdiocese of Ernakulam-Angamaly. According to a press release, the synod will meet June 12-16 atContinue Reading
By Salvatore Cernuzio Vatican City, April 26, 2023: The Secretariat for the Synod announces that 70 “non-bishop members” appointed by the Pope—half of whom will be women—will be able to vote at the Synod General Assembly in October. Neither the nature nor the name is changing—which remains the Synod ofContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, April 26, 2023: Bishop Isidore Fernandes, who was sacked by the Vatican ten years before his term could end, died April 26 in Allahabad (now Prayagraj) in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. He was 76. Bishop Fernandes died of a massive heart attackContinue Reading
By Irudhaya Jothi Aizawl April 4, 2023: The newly appointed bishop of Mizoram says his main priority is to bring Barak Valley’s diverse ethnic communities together through focused pastoral care and help them work together overcoming all their challenges. “I will visit every parish and in the Barrak Valley andContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Rome, March 30, 2023: Jesuit superior general Father Arturo Sosa has brought the congregation’s works in Pakistan under its Asia-Pacific region. The general announced the change of jurisdiction for the mission in Pakistan in a March 28 message to Father Antonio Moreno, president of the JesuitContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, March 28, 2023: A group of students of theology from Delhi’s Jesuit-run Vidyajyoti Institute of Religious Studies on March 26 attended an iftar program, the ritual of breaking the fast during the Ramadan month. They were invited by Syed Muhammad Nizami Sahib to theContinue Reading
By Midhun J Francis Kochukallan Rome, March 21, 2023: Pope Francis addressed a delegation of the United Association of Humanistic Buddhism from Taiwan during their visit to the Vatican on an interreligious “educational pilgrimage.” Pope Francis on March 16 stressed the importance of a culture of encounter, especially in aContinue Reading
By Sujata Jena Manila, March 18, 2023: A zonal meeting of the Sisters of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary has resolved among other things to care for victims of religious intolerance and those living without hope. As many as 20 delegates from Asia, Pacific and United States attendedContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kochi, March 15, 2023: The Kerala High Court has turned down the Kottayam archbishop’s plea seeking a stay of a lower court order that ended the centuries-old practice of endogamy in his Eastern rite Syro-Malabar Church. The Kottayam archdiocese based in the southern Indian state ofContinue Reading
By Vatican News staff writer Vatican City, March 8, 2023: Pope Francis has renewed the Council of Cardinals, as known as the ‘C9’, since the mandate of the previous Council has expired. The cardinal members of the new Council are: Cardinals Pietro Parolin, Vatican Secretary of State; Fernando Vérgez Alzaga,Continue Reading