By Joseph Victor Edwin New Delhi, Aug 14, 2023: Islamic Studies Association, a New Delhi-based group of Christian scholars on Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations, has celebrated the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples by organizing two webinars on Islamic mysticism. The first seminar on August 9 was on “MysticismContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Bengaluru, Aug 13, 2023: The first meeting of Christian institutes of higher education — religious and secular — has stressed highlighting the positive aspects of religions to foster communal harmony and peace in India. This is necessary in a country like India, which, though secular inContinue Reading
By LiCAS.news Manila, July 9, 2023: Pope Francis on July 9 announced he would hold a consistory for the creation of 21 new cardinals, including the bishops of Malaysia and Hong Kong. “I would like to announce that next 30 September, I will hold a Consistory for the appointment ofContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Bengaluru, July 8, 2023: Pope Francis on July 8 appointed Father Ferdinand Dkhar, as the bishop of Jowai in the northeastern Indian state of Meghalaya. The 59-year-old bishop elect is currently the administrator of the diocese of Jowai. Bishop elect Dkhar was born February 26, 1962,Continue Reading
By Deborah Castellano Lubov Rome, July 7, 2023: In an interview with Vatican News, Bishop Paul Hinder, Emeritus Apostolic Vicar of Southern Arabia, recalls how the Missionaries of Charity martyred in 2016 in Yemen reveal the presence of Jesus’ love. He also underscores the value of the new Vatican CommissionContinue Reading
Vatican City, July 6, 2023: Pope Francis has released a letter announcing the establishment of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints’ “Commission for the New Martyrs – Witnesses of the Faith,” in view of the Jubilee of 2025. The working group’s objective will be to draw up a catalogueContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, July 5, 2023: Sister Venita Fernandes has become the first Indian to head the Sisters of Charity of the Saints Bartolomea Capitanio and Vincenza Gerosa, an international Catholic religious congregation based in Italy. Sister Fernandes, a native of Balli-Fatorpa in the western Indian state ofContinue Reading
Rome, June 25, 2023: Mother Mary Elizabeth Lange — a Black Catholic nun who founded the United States’ first African American religious congregation in Baltimore in 1829 — has advanced another step toward sainthood. Under a decree signed by Pope Francis on June 23, Lange was recognized for her heroicContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kochi, June 23, 2023: The ongoing violence in the northeastern Indian state of Manipur was condemned by the Mathruvedi (mothers’ forum) of the Syro-Malabar Church, based in Kerala, south. Representatives from 24 dioceses who attended the June 23 international senate meeting of the forum prayed forContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, June 16, 2023: The Syro-Malabar Synod has decided to open St Mary’s Basilica in Ernakulam, Kerala, closed for more than six months because of a controversy over the method of offering Mass. The decision was announced June 16 at the end of the synod’s weeklongContinue Reading
