By Nirmala Carvalho Mumbai, April 23, 2020: One of India’s most historic churches is suffering from “sheer negligence” by the country’s main cultural protection body, according to its rector. The Basilica of Bom Jesus in Goa was consecrated in 1605 and houses the remains of St. Francis Xavier. Jesuit FatherContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, April 22. 2020: A group of activists, academics, and others on April 22 condemned the Delhi police for falsely implicating “innocent students” in the Delhi riot cases. The police have booked them under “the draconian Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA),” says a press statementContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Guwahati, April 21, 2020: Church leaders in Assam on April 21 mourned the death of Father Varghese Kizhakkevelil, who had played a key role in nurturing Guwahati archdiocese and other dioceses in the northeastern Indian state. “The Archdiocese of Guwahati is what it is because ofContinue Reading
By A C Michael New Delhi, April 20, 2020: Christians in many parts of India continue to struggle to freely practice their faith while the whole world is amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Authenticated data reveals at least 27 incidents of violence against Christians in 10 Indian states in this March.Continue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Palayamkottai, April 19, 2020: A Jesuit research center in Palayamkottai has developed an herb-based sanitizer to help the poor in the southern Indian district to fight the coronavirus pandemic. “As the coronavirus was taking a stronger hold we wanted to help the people with a simpleContinue Reading
BY Jessy Joseph New Delhi, April 17, 2020: Some unidentified people on April 17 disrupted a Christian NGO’s distribution of food kits among those affected by the nationwide lockdown in western Uttar Pradesh. “We were distributing provision for about 3,000 families in Electronic City in the Sector 62 of NoidaContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Guwhati, April 17, 2020: Head of the Catholic Church in northeastern India on April 17 termed as “unchristian” a row over the last rites of a doctor, the first Covid-19 victim in Meghalaya state. Doctor John L Sailo Ryntathiang, a Presbyterian Christian, was buried on AprilContinue Reading
Rome, April 16, 2020: Cardinal Telesphore Toppo of India is among prelates from all five continents who urged Pope Francis to dogmatically proclaim Mary as “Spiritual Mother of all Peoples” as the world faces the “historic” coronavirus pandemic. The Easter letter states that the signatories made this same request ofContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kochi, April 15, 2020: Two Catholic priests have been booked for violating lockdown norms in the past one week in Kerala. Police in Kochi on April 15 arrested Father Augustine Palayil, parish priest of Stella Maris Church in Wellington Island in Kerala’s commercial capital. The priestContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kolkata, April 14, 2020: The Catholic Church in West Bengal and Jharkhand has mourned the death of Father Richard V Joe, “the apostle of the Santhals.” Father Joe died on April 13, the 40th anniversary of his priestly ordination, at Pallam, his home village in theContinue Reading