By Kampan Chinnam Guwahati, Sept. 25, 2024: Archbishop Linus Neli of Imphal has requested Pope Francis to pray for the people of Manipur state in northeastern India. The archbishop made the plea on September 21during an audience with the Pope. He was in Rome to attend the September 15-22 formationContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kolkata, Sept 22, 2024: The city of Kolkata witnessed confluence of faiths, values, and collective harmony on September 22, the International Day of Peace. The program was organized by the Sadhu Vaswani Centre, Kolkata in association with the United Interfaith Foundation – India. It “brought togetherContinue Reading
By Kampan Chinnam Srikakulam, Sept 19, 2024: A Telugu bishop has penned a dirge to pour out his grief over the tragic death of a young woman scientist from a tribal community in the Telangana floods. “This song is a tribute to our beloved daughter, who has flown away fromContinue Reading
By Anthoniraj Thumma Bengaluru, Sept 14, 2024: Around 40 people representing some 20 Churches in India have resolved to assert Christians’ significant contribution to nation building and work towards dispelling wrong notions about the community in the country. The National Ecumenical Bishops’ Fellowship meeting in Bengaluru on September 13 alsoContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, Sept 13, 2024: Catholic bishops in India have mourned the death of Sitaram Yechury, the top Marxist leader in the country and product of Christian educational institutions. Yechury, the general secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), died on September 12 after suffering fromContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Bengaluru, Sept 10, 2024: The Conference of Catholic Bishops of India (CCBI) on September 10 launched a set of 115 textbooks for schools under the Central Board of Secondary Education and the Indian Certificate of Secondary Education. CCBI president Cardinal Filipe Neri Ferrao, Archbishop of GoaContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Mumbai, Sept 2, 2024: A young man who resigned a job in a multinational firm to join a seminary has died after he accidentally fell into a river and drowned. Brother Noel Felix Thekkekkara was doing his regency in an estate of Kalyan diocese in Sawantawadi,Continue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Siliguri: Sept. 1, 2024: An Indian priest has been appointed the global head of the Rome-based Salesian higher education institutions. A communication from Father Stefano Martoglio, the vicar of Salesian rector major, to the Kolkata provincial has announced the appointment of Father George Abraham Thadathil, formerContinue Reading
By Felix Anthony Guwahati, Aug 29, 2024: The Catholic Church in northeastern India set the preparation for the Jubilee Year 2025 in motion by revisiting ‘Ecclesia in Asia,’ an apostolic exhortation issued by Saint Pope John Paul II in 1999. This was done at the three-day annual regional pastoral conferenceContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, Aug 22, 2024: Father Joseph Kizhakkekara, former Salesian provincial of Calcutta and Delhi who worked among young people, died of cardiac arrest August 22 in New Delhi. He was 87. A message from Salesian Delhi provincial Father Davis Maniparamben says the death occurred atContinue Reading
