By Matters India Reporter Jabalpur, June 28, 2023: The Madhya Pradesh high court June 28 ordered the state police to demolish a boundary wall they built seven days ago that blocked access to a Catholic school. A single bench of Justice Sanjay Dwivedi also directed the police to make immediateContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, June 25, 2023: An Irish Catholic nun, who revolutionized school education in India with her innovative methods, died June 24 in Kolkata. Sister Cyril Mooney died at Loreto House in the eastern Indian city at the age of 86. Sister Mooney came to India onContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Guwahati, June 24, 2023: The Assam Christian Forum on June 24 expressed its solidarity with the people of Manipur where an ethnic violence has raged for the past 53 days. “We earnestly pray for the killings and violence to come to an immediate halt. Our heartsContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Jabalpur, June 22, 2023: The Madhya Pradesh High Court on June 22 granted anticipatory bail to a Catholic bishop and nun accused of attempting to convert to Christianity railway destitute children in a diocesan orphanage. A single judge bench of the high court, based in Jabalpur,Continue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Bengaluru, June 21, 2023: Police in Bengaluru on June 21 arrested a person suspected to be involved in the break in of a Catholic church in the southern Indian city. An intruder armed with a hammer and crowbar forcibly entered the premises of St. Pius XContinue Reading
By F. M. Britto Raipur, June 20, 2023: Three masked men have looted a presbytery in broad daylight under the Raipur archdiocese in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh. “I am safe, anyhow,” Father Varghese Thekkekut, parish priest of St. Theresa of Avila at Bagbahra in Mahasamund district, told MattersContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, June 19, 2023: The Syro-Malabar Church, a Kerala-based Oriental rite in the Catholic fold, has welcomed the decision of the government in neighbouring state of Karnataka to repeal a law prohibiting religious conversions. The decision “deserves appreciation by all those who stand for democracy andContinue Reading
By Indian Currents New Delhi, June 16, 2023: Manipur violence is aimed at destroying, if not eliminating, the Christian community in the northeastern Indian state, says Dean Kuriakose, a Member of Parliament from Kerala. Kuriakose joined another parliamentarian from Kerala Hibi Eden to visit Manipur in the second week ofContinue Reading
By Thomas Scaria Mangaluru, June 15, 2023: Archbishop Peter Machado of Bangalore on June 15 commended the Karnataka government for repealing the controversial Anti-Conversion law, enforced by the previous Hindu nationalist government. “On behalf of the Christian Community, I express my profound gratitude and satisfaction towards the government of KarnatakaContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Guwahati, 14 June 2023: Archbishop Emeritus Thomas Menamparampil of Guwahati, apostle of peace in northeastern India, has gone to Manipur twice where ethnic violence has raged since May 3. “It is not easy to describe what I am doing. I have visited Manipur already twice, spendingContinue Reading