By Matters India Reporter Kochi, Dec 6, 2022: The Kerala High Court has ordered the state police to provide protection to the Vatican-appointed administrator of a strife-torn archdiocese in the southern Indian state. The apex court in Kerala on December 5 ordered police protection for Archbishop Andrews Thazhath, the apostolicContinue Reading
By Vincent Pereppadan Kozhikode, Dec 4, 2022: The Church in India has mourned the death of Jesuit Father Abraham Adappur, a renowned thinker and writer who drafted Pope Paul VI’s address to India. Father Adappur died December 3, the feast of St Francis Xavier, at Christ Hall, the headquarters ofContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kochi, Dec 3, 2022: The Kerala High Court has sought government opinion on a private firm’s demand for deploying federal forces to protect its under construction international seaport that is facing fierce protest from fisherfolk. The court direction came during the hearing of a contempt petitionContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Thiruvananthapuram, Nov 28, 2022: The police in Kerala have registered a case against a Catholic archbishop, his auxiliary and 48 others in connection with violence during a protest against an under construction international seaport in the southern Indian state. The police and protesters clashed at VizhinjamContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kochi, Nov 27, 2022: The liturgy dispute in a Catholic archdiocese in Kerala took an ugly turn November 27 when its administrator was prevented from forcibly entering the cathedral church to offer Sunday Mass. Archbishop Andrews Thazhath, the administrator, came to St Mary’s Basilica Cathedral ChurchContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Thiruvananthapuram, Nov 24, 2022: A federal agency dealing with economic offenses has attached close to 10 million rupees of movable assets of a Christian medical college in Kerala as part of its probe into a money laundering case. A November 22 statement from the Directorate ofContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kochi, Nov 22, 2022: The decades-long liturgical dispute in an Eastern rite archdiocese in India has reached an “explosive stage” with the priests and faithful launching an indefinite protest against their apostolic administrator. More than 500,000 Catholics of the archdiocese of Ernakulam-Angamaly along with 460 priestsContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Damoh, Nov 21, 2022: Police in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh have initiated a preliminary probe into a woman’s allegation that she was paid to convert Christianity. The move came on an order from the National Commission for Women (NCW), a federal statutory bodyContinue Reading
By Irudhaya Jothi Aizawl, November 18, 2022: The Catholic Church in Mizoram on November 20 ended the celebration of the 75 years of the presence of priests in the northeastern Indian state with Cardinal Oswald Gracias hailing the Mizo society for setting an example for the rest of the country.Continue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Jabalpur, Nov 18, 2022: The Madhya Pradesh High Court has ordered the state government not prosecute inter-religious couples who got married in violation of a state law that prohibits religious conversion for the purpose of marriage. The principal bench of the high court based in JabalpurContinue Reading