By Matters India Reporter Thrissur, July 7, 2025: Mar Aprem Metropolitan, who had led the Assyrian Church of the East in India for five decades, died July 7 following a brief hospitalization for age-related ailments in Thrissur, Kerala. He was 85. The funeral and other rituals will be decided afterContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi Kannur, July 4, 2025: The Catholic Church in Kerala, southern India, on July 4 witnessed a priest dying of suspected suicide, the second such case in less than two months. Father Antony Ullatthil was found hanging in a house that his congregation, the Missionary Congregation of theContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, July 1, 2025: The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI) has expressed deep sadness and grief over the tragic explosion at a chemical factory in Telangana, a southern Indian state. The June 30 “horrific incident” in Sangareddy district reportedly claimed at least 42 workersContinue Reading
By Thomas Scaria Mangaluru, June 29, 2025: Sister Sally John is an associate professor of psychiatry at the Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences, Wardha, in western India. The member of the Sisters of St. John the Baptist is engaged in clinical care, teaching and community psychiatry, directing projects suchContinue Reading
By John Singarayar Tala, June 20, 2025: More than 200 people have attended the opening of the Community and Human Resources Development Center at Tala in Maharashtra’s Raigad district to mark the Divine Word Society’s 150 years of service. Archbishop John Rodrigues of Bombay led the thanksgiving Mass on JuneContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Tellicherry, June 16, 2025: Archbishop Joseph Pamplany of Tellicherry has suspended a priest accused of sexually assaulting a minor boy. In his June 8 order, the archbishop removed with immediate effect Father Paul Thattuparambil from the post of the vicar of St. Pauls’ Church Athirumavu inContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, June 12, 2025: The Catholic bishops of India on June 12 joined world leaders to express “deep grief and profound sorrow” over the crash of an Air India plane earlier in the day. The plane bound for London crashed immediately after take off fromContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, June 7, 2025: Pope Leo XIV on June 7 appointed Father Jose Sebastian Thekkumcherikunnel as the new bishop of Jalandhar, the Conference of Catholic Bishops of India reports. The announcement of the appointment was made at 12 noon in Rome and its corresponding timeContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi Vilakkannur, May 31, 2025: Apostolic nuncio to India and Nepal Archbishop Leopoldo Girelli on May 31 called on the Syro-Malabar Church to view India’s first Eucharistic miracle as a signal to overcome its internal disputes and foster unity. “How can one ignore the tensions that still divideContinue Reading
By Purushottam Nayak Gudrikia, May 27, 2025: Archbishop John Barwa of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar has blessed a church built at the site where a Protestant Christian was burnt alive during the 2008 anti-Christian violence. “The perpetrators of violence had planned to eliminate Christians from this region, but they have failed in frontContinue Reading
