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
By Matters India Reporter Bengaluru, June 14, 2023: Archbishop Peter Machado of Bangalore has promised free education and hostel accommodation in Church-managed educational institutions to young people from the strife-torn northeastern Indian state of Manipur. The prelate told this June 12 at a meeting of a group of young ManipuriContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Jashpur, June 13, 2023: A newly professed nun, who was jailed along with four others for alleged conversion charges, were on June 13 granted bail by a court in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh. Sister Vibha Kerketta was arrested June 6 and jailed the nextContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kochi, June 12, 2023: The special synod meeting of the Syro-Malabar Church began June 12 with Cardinal George Alencherry bemoaning the persecution of Christians in the northeastern Indian state of Manipur. The synod is being held at the behest of the Vatican at Mount St. Thomas,Continue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, June 11, 2023: The Daughters of St. Anne prayed and fasted the whole day June 11 for Sister Vibha Kerketta, a new member who is in jail for allegedly violating the anti-conversion law of Chhattisgarh state in eastern India. “I am deeply saddened and anxiousContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Jashpur, June 8, 2023: A Catholic nun’s first home visit after her religious profession has ended in a tragedy in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh. Sister Bibha Kerketta was on June 6 arrested and jailed along with her mother and three others after her familyContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, June 7, 2023: The oldest church in northeastern India has been entangled in a factional feud for more than eight months. On June 4, the Christ Church in Guwahati, the commercial capital of Assam state, witnessed unruly scenes when one group shut the doors obstructingContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Bengaluru, June 5, 2023: The Conference of Religious India has joined groups to express solidarity with women wrestlers who have been protesting against sexual abuses in the national capital for several weeks. “We the women and men of the Conference of Religious in India [CRI] saluteContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, June 4, 2023: Some rightwing Hindu groups have threatened to close two churches of the archdiocese of Delhi that covers the national capital and parts of Haryana state. The latest incident happened June 4 at St Joseph Vaz Catholic Mission Church, Kherki Daula inContinue Reading
By Sujata Jena Bhubaneswar, June 4, 2023: After a group of robbers has looted a parish in Odisha’s Sambalpur diocese and wounded its priest, a bishop has issued an 11-point guideline on security measures his people should adopt. According to information received in Bhubaneswar, the state capital, six masked menContinue Reading
