By Matters India Reporter New Delhi: The Supreme Court of India has granted anticipatory bail to three persons, including to two elderly nuns, in a medico-legal case. The apex court on April 13 ordered the Madhya Pradesh police not to arrest Sisters Herman Joseph and Loraine Thayil and Sabeeha AnsariContinue Reading
By Thomas Scaria Mangaluru: Apostolic Carmel Sisters have celebrated the centenary of St. Agnes College in Mangaluru. The valedictory program on 10 April showcased the congregation’s mission of “empowering women in India” at various fields. One of the premier women’s colleges in India, St Agnes has produced veteran women inContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi: Catholic media persons in India on April 10 mourned the death of Jesuit Father Varghese Paul, a prolific Gujarati writer who started a news agency for South Asia in early 1980s. He was 77. Father Paul, a member of the Gujarat Jesuit province, died atContinue Reading
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on April 9 said people are free to choose their own religion, even as it lashed out at a “very, very harmful kind” of “public interest” petition claiming there is mass religious conversion happening “by hook or by crook” across the country. Instead, a BenchContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Ahmedabad: A Catholic priest on April 7 received the “Pride of Gujarat Award 2021” from the state’s deputy chief minister Nitin Patel. Father Jomon Thommana is currently the director of Christ Campus in Rajkot, a major city in the western Indian state of Gujarat. He wasContinue Reading
Tübingen (Germany): Hans Küng, an influential and controversial Swiss theologian, died at the age of 93. The German Catholic Church’s official website said that Küng died on the afternoon of April 6 at his home in Tübingen, southwest Germany. Küng served as a theological adviser at the Second Vatican CouncilContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Ujjain: A Catholic priest going to conduct Good Friday service in a mission center in the diocese of Ujjain on April 2 was killed in a road accident. Father John Nadunilam was going from Jamner town to Kalapipal village, some 10 km northeast, in Guna districtContinue Reading
New Delhi: A Supreme Court-appointed panel has submitted its report on the three agricultural reform laws in a closed cover. The report will be revealed during the next hearing of the case. “We submitted the report in a sealed envelope to the registrar of the court on March 19. ItContinue Reading
By Robin Gomes Rome: More than 500 people have been killed in Myanmar in the Military junta’s ruthless crackdown on protests since the Feb 1 ousting of the elected government and their leader Aung San Suu Kyi, a local non-governmental organization has said. As of March 29, as many asContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi: Father Jacob Pallipurath, the only Catholic priest in India to become a legislator in a state assembly for one term, died March 29 at Dharwad in Karnataka. He was 90. Father Jacob belonged to Belgaum diocese. The funeral will be held at 4 pmContinue Reading