Matters India Reporter Mumbai, August 7, 2025 — St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai, has cancelled its annual Stan Swamy Memorial Lecture scheduled for August 9, following protests from the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), a student organization affiliated with the RSS. The lecture, titled “Migration for Livelihood: Hope amidst Miseries,” wasContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi New Delhi, Aug 4, 2025: President Droupadi Murmu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on August 4 led the nation to mourn the death of Shibu Soren, founding patron of the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha and one of India’s towering tribal leaders. He was 81. The former chief ministerContinue Reading
Matters India Reporter Bilaspur, August 2, 2025: A National Investigation Agency (NIA) court in Bilaspur on Aug. 2 granted bail to three individuals, including two Catholic nuns from Kerala, arrested on July 25 over allegations of human trafficking and forceful religious conversion. The accused—Sister Preeti Mary, Sister Vandana Francis, andContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kochi, July 21, 2025: The head of the Syro-Malabar Church on July 21 joined political and social leaders to mourn the death of a towering figure in Kerala politics and India’s most senior Communist party leader. Velikkakathu Sankaran Achuthanandan, who was popularly known as VS, diedContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kannur, July 13, 2025: Rajagiri College of Social Sciences (Autonomous), managed by the Carmelites of Mary Immaculate congregation in Kerala’s Kochi, has ranked second among 25 best social work institutes in India. The top rank in the list of “India Today Best Colleges 2025” has goneContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Thrissur, July 7, 2025: Mar Aprem Metropolitan, who had led the Assyrian Church of the East in India for five decades, died July 7 following a brief hospitalization for age-related ailments in Thrissur, Kerala. He was 85. The funeral and other rituals will be decided afterContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi Kannur, July 4, 2025: The Catholic Church in Kerala, southern India, on July 4 witnessed a priest dying of suspected suicide, the second such case in less than two months. Father Antony Ullatthil was found hanging in a house that his congregation, the Missionary Congregation of theContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, July 1, 2025: The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI) has expressed deep sadness and grief over the tragic explosion at a chemical factory in Telangana, a southern Indian state. The June 30 “horrific incident” in Sangareddy district reportedly claimed at least 42 workersContinue Reading
By Thomas Scaria Mangaluru, June 29, 2025: Sister Sally John is an associate professor of psychiatry at the Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences, Wardha, in western India. The member of the Sisters of St. John the Baptist is engaged in clinical care, teaching and community psychiatry, directing projects suchContinue Reading
By John Singarayar Tala, June 20, 2025: More than 200 people have attended the opening of the Community and Human Resources Development Center at Tala in Maharashtra’s Raigad district to mark the Divine Word Society’s 150 years of service. Archbishop John Rodrigues of Bombay led the thanksgiving Mass on JuneContinue Reading
