By Matters India Reporter Dallas, May 8, 2024: Moran Mor Athanasius Yohan (formerly known as K P Yohannan), head of the Bishop of Believers Eastern Church, died May 8 at Dallas in the US. He was 74. The Church leader was hospitalized the previous day after he sustained serious woundsContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, May 6, 2024: Political leaders and media fraternity in Kerala on May 8 mourned the death of a video journalist in an attack by a wild elephant. A V Mukesh, who worked as a cameraman in the Palakkad bureau of Mathrubhumi News, was killed earlyContinue Reading
By Joseph Jerald New Delhi, May 6, 2024: Have you heard of a Catholic priest working among gangsters, or stories of gangsters he has helped confessing their past and leading dignified lives in society? There is one in Los Angeles, the United States – Jesuit Father Gregory Joseph Boyle. OnContinue Reading
By Nirmala Carvalho of cruxnow.com Mumbai, May 3, 2024: Archbishop Linus Neli of Imphal has called all Catholics in the eastern Indian state of Manipur to hold intense fast and prayer for reconciliation and peace May 3-5. “Let us persistently pray for the day when people of all ethnicities andContinue Reading
By Purushottam Nayak Pirigoda, April 30, 2024: The Archdiocese of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar has honored a python-attack survivor who completed 44 years making hundreds know Christ in the eastern Indian state of Odisha. Around 75 people, including priests and nuns, on April 29 attended a Mass to give God thanks for KhristodasContinue Reading
By Lalita Roshni Lakra Namkum, April 27, 2024: Human rights activists, journalists, social workers, and lawyers were among 150 people who attended the 87th birth anniversary of Jesuit Father Stan Swamy in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand. The April 26 program at Agriculture Training Centre in Namkum near theContinue Reading
By Jessy Joseph Adilabad, April 18, 2024: Police in Telangana have arrested nine people in connection with the attack on a Catholic school in the southern Indian state, the bishop of Adilabad told Matters India April 18. Meanwhile Church groups across India have condemned a saffron-clad mob on April 16Continue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Adilabad, April 17, 2024: Paramilitary personnel have been deployed at a Catholic school in the southern Indian state of Telangana after right wing Hindu activists vandalized it and assaulted a priest. The attackers on April 16 accused the school management of hurting religious sentiments by questioningContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Panaji, April 17, 2024: Cardinal Filipe Neri Ferrão, archbishop of Goa-Daman, has urged his people to refrain from undertaking a pilgrimage to the Marian shrine at Velankanni in Tamil Nadu a day before the general elections in Goa. “It is universally recognized, especially in a democracy,Continue Reading
Sydney, April 15, 2024: A bishop is among multiple people allegedly stabbed during a church service on April 15 night in southwest Sydney, Australia. The attack occurred at the Assyrian Orthodox Church, Christ The Good Shepherd Church in Wakeley, just after 7 pm (11:30 pm Indian time). A video onlineContinue Reading