By Matters India Reporter Mumbai, Sept 2, 2024: A young man who resigned a job in a multinational firm to join a seminary has died after he accidentally fell into a river and drowned. Brother Noel Felix Thekkekkara was doing his regency in an estate of Kalyan diocese in Sawantawadi,Continue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Siliguri: Sept. 1, 2024: An Indian priest has been appointed the global head of the Rome-based Salesian higher education institutions. A communication from Father Stefano Martoglio, the vicar of Salesian rector major, to the Kolkata provincial has announced the appointment of Father George Abraham Thadathil, formerContinue Reading
By Felix Anthony Guwahati, Aug 29, 2024: The Catholic Church in northeastern India set the preparation for the Jubilee Year 2025 in motion by revisiting ‘Ecclesia in Asia,’ an apostolic exhortation issued by Saint Pope John Paul II in 1999. This was done at the three-day annual regional pastoral conferenceContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, Aug 22, 2024: Father Joseph Kizhakkekara, former Salesian provincial of Calcutta and Delhi who worked among young people, died of cardiac arrest August 22 in New Delhi. He was 87. A message from Salesian Delhi provincial Father Davis Maniparamben says the death occurred atContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Mulleri, Aug 15, 2024: Gloom has spread over the archdiocese of Tellicherry in Kerala after one of its young priests died of electrocution on August 15. Father Mathew (Shince) Kudilil was dismantling a pole erected to hoist the national flag in the morning as part ofContinue Reading
BY Rani Punnasserril New Delhi, Aug 14, 2024: India is heading for great social unrest and increased inequality if the country fails to address the rising unemployment and worsening poverty, warns a leading trade unionist. “The gap between the rich and the poor is growing, and our youth are beingContinue Reading
By Thomas Scaria Mangaluru, Aug 14, 2024: The Mangaluru unit of the Prison Ministry India celebrated its silver jubilee by providing scholarships to children of prisoners. As many as 25 students from Mangaluru, Bengaluru, Shivamogga, Ballari and Kalaburagi were given a cheque for 10,000 rupees each to support their studies.Continue Reading
By Thomas Scaria Kalpeta, Aug 6, 2024: Various dioceses, religious congregations, and laity groups have formed a task force with Hindus and Muslims to implement short term and long term rehabilitation plans for the landslide survivors in Kerala’s Wayanad district. The hilly district on July 30 witnessed one of theContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Sambalpur, Aug 6, 2024: A priest of Sambalpur diocese on Odisha state died due to complications from a dog bite he suffered two months ago. Father Thomas Tete died August 5 at his uncle’s house in Dandjomra, a village under Kusumdegi parish. The 48-year-old priest wasContinue Reading
Thomas Scaria Waynad, July 30, 2024: More than 250 people died and 190 went missing in the “worst ever” landslide that devastated Kerala’s hilly Wayanad district on July 30. The victims included 9 Catholic families from the St. Sebastian’s Syro-Malabar Church, Chooranmala, the affected region. Only one body was retrievedContinue Reading
