By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, Oct. 18, 2021: Apostolic Nuncio to India Archbishop Leopoldo Girelli has pulled up Tamil Nadu bishops for “a tendency” among priests to set up and manage independent trusts violating the canon law. The nuncio says the existence of such trusts in Tamil Nadu cameContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporters New Delhi, Oct 18, 2021: Cardinal Oswald Gracias, the head of the Catholic Church in India, has launched the diocesan phase of the Synod 2021-2023. The cardinal, who is the archbishop of Bombay and one of the top consulters of Pope Francis, on Oct 17 appealedContinue Reading
By Thomas Scaria Bengaluru, Oct 16, 2021: Archbishop Peter Machado of Bangalore has condemned the continuous harassment on the Christian Missionaries in the state and questioned the wisdom behind conducting a survey on their presence and activities in Karnataka. The Backward Classes and Minorities Welfare Department in Karnataka has orderedContinue Reading
By Anand Mathew Varanasi, Oct 11, 2021: Some 50 Christ devotees attending Sunday service were attacked by Hindu radicals in the Mau district of the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. The activists of Bajrang Dal (party of the stout and strong) and Hindu Yuva Vahini, a youth group, paradedContinue Reading
By Irudhaya Jothi Kailashahar, Oct. 9, 2021: Sister Josline, a Franciscan Clarist nun, died October 9, a day after she met with road accident. The 66-year-old nun died in Agartala Government Medical College and Govid Ballabh Pant Hospital in Agartala, capital of Tripura. Bishop Lumen Monteiro of Agartala announced theContinue Reading
By Thomas Scaria Mangaluru, Oct. 9, 2021: Leaders of various religious communities and social organizations have started a journey in the southern Indian state of Kerala to promote communal harmony and national integration. The journey named ‘Sarva Dharma Sadbhavana Yatra’ (Journey to foster goodwill among all religions, is an initiativeContinue Reading
By Thomas Scaria Mangaluru, Oct 7, 2021: Some right wing Hindu groups in the southern Indian state of Karnataka have objected to naming a private park after Jesuit Father Stan Swamy, who died in judicial custody three months ago. The park is situated inside the campus of 140-year-old St AloysiusContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kochi, Oct. 5, 2021: The Catholic Church in India witnessed a rare event when a cardinal appeared in a court as a witness in a case where a bishop is being tried for allegedly raping a nun. Cardinal George Alencherry, head of the Syro-Malabar Church, OctoberContinue Reading
By Thomas Scaria Mangaluru, Oct. 4, 2021: Farmer unions associated with the Church on October 4 condemned the killing of their counterparts protesting in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. “We strongly condemn the brutal way the government suppresses protesting farmers,” Joy Kannanchira, the chairman of the “We Farm”Continue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, Sept. 30, 2021: Delhi archdiocese’s new auxiliary bishop says he will work hard to bring spiritual revival in the Catholic Church in the national capital. “A spiritual revival in myself, among the clergy, religious and the faithful is my vision right now,” says Monsignor DeepakContinue Reading
