By Matters India Reporter Yangon, March 4, 2019: The president of the Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences (FABC) has called upon fellow prelates in the region to support Pope Francis’ call to protect children. “After painful hearing of the victims of the terrible crimes of sexual abuse against minors committedContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Bhubaneswar, March 4, 2019: Catholic bishops in Odisha have decided to begin a center to train young people from religious minorities, Dalit and Adivasi groups to appear for civil service examinations. Divine Word Archbishop John Barwa, chairman of the Odisha Catholic Bishops’ Council (OCBC), has appointedContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, March 1, 2019: A court in Madhya Pradesh state on February 28 allowed a laywoman’s petition seeking a probe into the death of a Catholic bishop. Dolly Theresa, a Catholic resident of Gwalior, alleges foul play in the death of Bishop Thomas Thennatt of Gwalior.Continue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Guwahati, March 1, 2019: The , known as “FORUM, has pledged its unconditional support to the defense of the Indian Constitution facing threats from religious fundamentalism. The forum, an advocacy group for progressive religious nuns, brothers and priests in, also resolved to play a prophetic roleContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, Feb. 27, 2019: The body of a Catholic priest was found on a railway track on February 27 in the western Indian state of Maharashtra. Father Jebin Maruthoor, a priest of Adilabad Syro-Malabar diocese, was going to Mumbai. According to the diocesan sources, theContinue Reading
by Nirmala Carvalho Mumbai, Feb. 26, 2019: A Catholic nun, who has promoted women’s hygiene in Indian villages for years, on February 26 expressed happiness that a documentary on menstruation has won an Oscar award. “We are very happy,” Sister Liza Ignatius, gynecologist at Our Lady of Graces Hospital inContinue Reading
Melbourne, Feb 26, 2019: Cardinal George Pell, once the third most powerful man in the Vatican and Australia’s most senior Catholic, has been found guilty of child sexual abuse after a trial in Melbourne. A jury delivered the unanimous verdict on December 11, 2018, in Melbourne’s county court, but theContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Itanagar, Feb. 24, 2019: A Christian body in Arunachal Pradesh on February 24 appealed for peace after a mob set fire to the house of the deputy chief minister of the northeastern Indian state. “We pray for our state of Arunachal Pradesh still reeling with painContinue Reading
By Nirmala Carvalho Mumbai, Feb. 23, 2019: The Archdiocese of Bombay says a BBC report on Cardinal Oswald Gracias about clerical sexual abuse did not give the full story on his response to an allegation against a priest of the archdiocese. In a Feb. 21 report, the BBC said theContinue Reading
Bhubaneswar, Feb. 22, 2019: A newly converted Christian was beheaded in the eastern Indian state of Odisha allegedly by Maoists at the behest of Hindu radicals. The body and severed head of Anand Ram Gand were found on a road on February 11 at Raigarh Tehsil village in the NabarangapurContinue Reading