By Jose Kavi New Delhi: Christians in India must come out of their big institutions and celebrations of feasts to redeem the country through the power of Christ, says a former Air Force officer who became an ascetic after a near-death experience. “The Church in India has been on aContinue Reading
The students took a pledge to uphold the religious diversity and harmony of India,Continue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi: Two bishops were appointed as Coadjutor Bishops of Eparchy of Pathanamthitta and the Eparchy of Muvattupuzha of the Syro-Malankara Church on April 10. The appointments are Reverend Samuel Mar Irenios, at present Auxiliary Bishop of the Major Archdiocese of Trivandrum, as Coadjutor Bishop ofContinue Reading
Shimla :Thirty people, including 27 students, were killed on Monday when a private school bus fell into a gorge in Kangra district of Himachal Pradesh, police said. Superintendent of Police Santosh Patyal said all the killed students were in the age of 10 to 12, while the bus driver andContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Sundargarh: The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI) and Odisha Bishops have urged people of Sundargarh district not to give in to divisive forces. On 1, April 2018, in the late night of Easter Sunday, some miscreants vandalized a grotto outside the compound of St. ThomasContinue Reading
By Karen Laurie Mumbai: Father Leon Cruz, the only Salesian in India to be appointed as a Missionary of Mercy (MoM) by Pope Francis in 2017 with special powers to pardon sins reserved to the Holy See, will join other Missionaries of Mercy from around the world in Rome fromContinue Reading
By: Puroshottam Nayak Bhubaneswar : An Ethical Imperative of Odisha Catholic Bishops’ Council (OCBC) with about 80 participants of both men and women religious provincials, vice-provincials, delegates of the provincials, major superiors, religious leaders of different congregations, vicar-generals, Commission Secretaries, stakeholders working in Odisha gathered on April 4, 2018 inContinue Reading
Jaipur: A statue of Mahatma Gandhi was vandalised in Nathdwara town of Rajasthan, following which a case was registered against unidentified miscreants, police said on Wednesday. The head of the statue, installed by the Nathdwara municipality in Valmiki Basti in the town, was found missing on Tuesday. Police registered aContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Rourkela: Statues of Mother Mary and Child Jesus have been destroyed in the diocese of Rourkela, Sundhargarh district, in the eastern Indian state of Odisha. This was the second incident in two months in the region. Bishop Kishor Kumar Kujur of Rourkela condemned the dastardly actionContinue Reading
Thiruvananthapuram : Archbishop M.Susaipakiam of Trivandrum on Saturday slammed the the state’s Pinarayi Vijayan government for not doing a proper rehabilitation programme in wake of Cyclone Ockhi, while complimenting the Tamil Nadu government for rising to the occasion. Addressing reporters here, Archbishop M.Susaipakiam of Trivandrum said they were told thatContinue Reading
