By Matters India Reporter Bengaluru, June 16, 2020: A former Bombay High Court judge has given 72 hours to the heads of Bangalore archdiocese and Mysore diocese to revoke their order of priests’ transfer made during the lockdown time. In a June 15 legal notice to Archbishop Peter Machado ofContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Tellicherry, June 15, 2020: The Archdiocese of Tellicherry in Kerala has suspended two priests after social media and online papers published audio clips of their debauchery. Fathers Joseph Poothottal and Mathew Mullappallil have been debarred from exercising their priestly duties amid serious allegations against them, saysContinue Reading
By Jessy Joseph New Delhi, June 11, 2020: Three Christians were among six activists and an institution conferred with the Delhi Minority Commission’s human rights awards for their contribution to society. Jesuit priest Father Denzil Fernandes, A C Michael and Anna Pinto were the recipients of the with Human RightsContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, June 10, 2020: Archbishop Emeritus Vincent Michael Concessao of Delhi has been hospitalized with suspected coronavirus infection. The 83-year-old prelate was admitted in Delhi’s Holy Family Hospital on June 9 after he complained of breathlessness and fever, sources in the archdiocese told Matters India.Continue Reading
Bengaluru, June 8, 2020: Former Bombay High Court Judge Justice Michael Saldanha has accused Bishop K A William of murder, sexual misconduct and corruption by “letting loose a virtual reign of terror” in his Mysore diocese. On May 29, Justice Saldanha had sent a legal notice to Catholic Bishops’ ConferenceContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Malkangiri, June 6, 2020: The murder of a teenage Christian boy in Odisha state on June 4 exposes the frightening and tainted mentality of religious fanatics in India, says Shibu Thomas of Persecution Relief, an agency that monitors attacks on Christians in the country. Samaru Madkami,Continue Reading
Thiruvananthapuram, June 4, 2020: The funeral of a priest of the Malankara Orthodox Church who died of Covid-19 was conducted on June 4, two days after his death. The burial was conducted as per protocol for COVID-19 deaths. Father K.G. Varghese died on June 2 in a hospital in Thiruvananthapuram,Continue Reading
New Delhi, June 3, 2020: Eight workers were killed and 50 others were injured on June 3 in a massive fire triggered by a blast in the boiler of a chemical factory at Dahej in Gujarat’s Bharuch district, police said. “Eight workers died in the boiler blast at the chemicalContinue Reading
By Thomas Scaria Mangaluru, June 3, 2020: Fishermen in the coastal city of Mangaluru now thank some Catholics nuns, who have brought hope to their lives shattered by a nationwide lockdown and the onslaught of monsoon. “We knew their plight and could not stop reaching out to them,” said SisterContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, June 1, 2020: A group of Catholic women in India on June 1 urged the head of the Syro-Malankara Church to start an impartial enquiry into the mysterious death of a novice nun in a convent in Kerala, southern India. “In these times ofContinue Reading