By Matters India Reporter Indore, Nov 9, 2022: Three women from different parts of northern India have won the top prizes of the first Gospel Singer Reality Show conducted by a popular Church TV channel. While Lynette John, a mother and an English music teacher from Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, notchedContinue Reading
By Thomas Scaria Bengaluru, Nov 7, 2022: The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI) on November 7 started their 35th general body meeting with the inaugural Mass presided over by Apostolic Nuncio Archbishop Leopoldo Girelli at St John’s National Academy of Health Science in Bengaluru. The nuncio also delivered theContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, Nov 3, 2022: Journalism now faces great challenges from inside the profession and outside, says veteran journalist John Dayal, after he was selected for a prestigious award by the national association of Catholic journalists in India. The Indian Catholic Press Association (ICPA) has also chosenContinue Reading
By Varghese Theckanath Hyderabad, Oct 31, 2022: The Bharat Jodo Yatra (March to unify India) is a “tapasya” (spiritual journey) to seek the soul of India at a time of grave crisis, says Rahul Gandhi, who leads the Kanniyakumari to Kashmir march, covering 3,570 kilometers. Gandhi said this October 30Continue Reading
By Thomas Scaria Vizhinjam, Oct 28, 2022: Thousands of fishermen and women on October 28 stormed the under construction Vizhinjam International Port by the Adani groups, throwing police barricades to the Arabian sea as the protest entered 101 days. The more than 1,500 police force remained calm as the agitatedContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, Oct 28, 2022: The body of a Capuchin priest was recovered five days after he was drowned in the Godavari River in the southern Indian state of Telangana. “We have found the body of Tony Pullattukalayil (earlier reported as Pulladen) at 11:10 pm,” says aContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, Oct 27, 2022: The Capuchins in India have intensified their prayers as the body a friar who was drowned in the Godavari River remains untraced even after five days. Father Tony Simon Pulladen and seminarian Brother Bijo Thomas Palampurackal were taking bath in the riverContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Khandwa, Oct 26, 2022: Right wing Hindu activists have burnt firecrackers in front of a Catholic school in Madhya Pradesh state to protest the staging a street play on environmental protection and safe celebration of Diwali, the festival of lights. The protesters burst firecrackers before StContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Mancherial, Oct 23, 2022: A Capuchin priest and a seminarian have been feared drowned in the Godavari River in the southern Indian state of Telangana. Father Tony Simon Pulladen and seminarian Bijo Thomas Palampurackal were reportedly taking bath in the river on October 23 near ErrayipetContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kochi, Oct 21, 2022: The priests and lay people of a Catholic archdiocese in the Syro-Malabar Church have snapped their ties with the Vatican appointed administrator as the dispute over Mass celebration entered a new phase. Father Jose Vailikodath, senior priest and public relations officer ofContinue Reading
