By Jose Kavi New Delhi: A group of Catholic women says they are deeply concerned over a bishop’s controversial statement that now threatens communal harmony in India. In a statement endorsed by 89 Catholic women from across India urges the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India and its Kerala unit toContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi: A Catholic priest in central India has expressed happiness after the Supreme Court quashed a case of religious conversion against him. “I feel relaxed after nearly four years of exasperating legal battle,” Father George Mangalapilly, a professor at St Ephrem’s Theological College in Satna, MadhyaContinue Reading
By Thomas Scaria Mangalore: Cardinal Oswald Gracias, head of the Catholic Church in India, on September 13 joined political and social leaders to mourn the death of Oscar Fernandes, a former federal minister. Fernandes, a member of the Congress party, died earlier in the day at Mangaluru, a port townContinue Reading
By Thomas Scaria Palai: Bishop Joseph Kallarangatt of Palai has stirred another controversy by alleging that some groups try to destroy young Catholics with narcotics and fake love. In a democratic country like India, use of weapons to destroy another community is impossible, so they use novel methods like “loveContinue Reading
Raipur: A pastor and two others were beaten up by a right-wing mob inside a police station in Raipur, capital of the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh. The mob accused the pastor of indulging in forced religious conversions. The September 5 attack occurred after heated arguments between the mob andContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Aluva: A parish in Kerala on September 5 witnessed unruly scenes when its priest tried to read a pastoral letter from the head of the Syro-Malabar Church during the Sunday Mass. A section of parishioners of the Holy Family Church at Prasannapuram near Aluva rushed toContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Chikmagalur: A court in Karnataka, southern India, has spared a Catholic bishop from facing police inquiry into a land dispute. The Sessions Court in Chikmagalur’s September 1 order observed the accusation against Bishop Thomasappa Anthony Swamy of Chikmagalur and a priest was false. A group ofContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi: Pope Francis has appointed Father Varghese Vinayanand Vekkal as the apostolic administrator of the Gurgaon Syro-Malankara diocese. The appointment came August 28, two days after Bishop Jacob Barnabas Chacko Aerath of Gurgaon died of post Covid complications in a private hospital in New Delhi.Continue Reading
By Jessy Joseph New Delhi: Bishop Jacob Barnabas of Gurgaon died of post Covid-19 complications at noon on August 26 in a private hospital in New Delhi. He was 60. Bishop Barnabas is the fifth Catholic prelate in India to die of Covid-19 and its complications. Bishop Barnabas was admittedContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Bhubaneswar: Peoples Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) has been selected for the first Kandhamal Award for Human Rights/ The individual award has gone posthumously to Paul Pradhan, who had worked for women’s empowerment and the rights of Tribals and Dalits in the eastern Indian state ofContinue Reading
