By Matters India Reporter Pune, Oct 20, 2024: More than 200 people from various regions of India spent two days in Pune, western India, to explore faith and sexuality in a Catholic environment. The October 19-20 event at Ishvani Kendra addressed the theme, “Gender and Sexual Minorities in India: AContinue Reading
By Kampan Chinnam Guwahati, Oct 14, 2024: The 37th annual conference of Church law experts began October 14 with an appeal from an archbishop to correctly understand the canons to serve the Church better. “Canonists need to have the correct understanding of the canons to assist dioceses and major superiors,”Continue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Mumbai, Oct 10, 2024: Ratan Tata, an industrialist, philanthropist and former chairman of Tata Sons, one of India’s biggest conglomerates, died October 9. He was 86. Earlier in the day, he was admitted to Mumbai Hospital in intensive care. His death was confirmed by the TataContinue Reading
By Ajith Lawrence Thiruvananthapuram, Oct 9, 2024: Senapathy “Kris” Gopalakrishnan, cofounder of Infosys Limited, has won the first award honoring Archbishop Benedict Mar Gregorios, the first principal of Mar Ivanios College in Thiruvananthapuram. The award was announced on October 9 by Cardinal Baselios Cleemis, head of the Syro-Malankara Church thatContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Margao, Oct 7, 2024: A court in Goa on September 7 rejected the anticipatory bail of the state’s former RSS chief Subhash Velingkar, who had allegedly made offending statements against St Francis Xavier. The Additional District Court in Panaji denied interim relief to Subhash Velingkar inContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, Oct 6, 2024: Monsignor George Jacob Koovakad, who organizes the Pope’s overseas travels, is among 21 new cardinals Pope Francis announced on October 6. Among the new Asian cardinals are Divine Word Archbishop Tarcisio Isao of Tokyo, Japan; Bishop Pablo Virgilio Siongco David of KalookanContinue Reading
By Bosco de Souza Eremita and Jose Kavi Panaji, Oct 5, 2024: Protests erupted in Goa’s Catholic-dominated southern region on October 5 after a right-wing Hindu leader questioned revering Saint Francis Xavier as the patron of the western Indian state and called for a DNA test on the saint’s relics.Continue Reading
By Thomas Scaria Mangaluru, Oct 3, 2024: The Indian Catholic Press Association (ICPA) has called on Christian journalists to imbibe the Gandhian values of truth, nonviolence and justice in reporting. “The deliberations made us realize how untruth, injustice and violence have permeated every section of society, and the media playContinue Reading
By Kampan Chinnam Guwahati, Oct. 2, 2024: The Basic Ecclesial Communities (BECs) are playing a vital role in transforming the Church in northeastern India. This was stressed at the 23rd pastoral conference of the Guwahati Archdiocese on October 2, attended by more than 200 priests, religious, and laypeople from 47Continue Reading
By Kampan Chinnam Bengaluru, Oct. 1, 2024: More than 200 nuns, priests and lay Catholics walked blindfolded in Bengaluru to raise awareness of the challenges faced by the visually impaired. “Christians in India can solve the problem of the shortage of corneas in India, which has one third of theContinue Reading
