By Matters India Reporter Dimahasou, Nov 5, 2024: Various Church groups in Assam have demanded action against a rightwing Hindu leader who allegedly maligned Christians and tried to undermine religious harmony in the northeastern Indian state. On October 27, Surendra Kumar Jain, the international joint general secretary of the VishwaContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, Nov 1, 2024: Catholic bishops of India joined Church and political leaders to mourn the death of the Indian head of the Jacobite Syrian Church. Metropolitan Baselios Thomas I died at a private hospital in Kochi, Kerala, in the evening of October 31, afterContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Hyderabad, Oct 31, 2024: More than 100 activists, environmentalists and academics from across India on October 31 called for a comprehensive review of a project that threatens to displace the poor living on the banks of the Musi River in the southern Indian state of Telangana.Continue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, Oct 23, 2024: Church leaders, theologians and grassroots workers in India have mourned the death of the father of the Liberation Theology who forced Christians to recognize the poor as agents and partners and not objects of charity. Dominican Father Gustavo Gutiérrez died October 22Continue Reading
By Kampan Chinnam Kohima, Oct. 21, 2024: A Catholic bishop has suggested making seminary formation more rigorous like the training given to civil service officers in India, as nearly half the priests now serving the Church seem to perform below average. Bishop James Thoppil of Kohima, chairman of the northeastContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Indore, Oct 20, 2024: The progressive group among India’s Catholic religious has resolved to live their prophetic call to address systemic, structural issues in society. For this, the members of Forum of Religious for Justice and Peace, who met October 18-20at Indore, central India, decided toContinue Reading
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
