By Matters India Reporter Rajkot, Sept 19, 2020: A Catholic woman, who has lived as an acetic among wild animals in a Gujarat forest for 41 years, has been hospitalized. Sadhvi (ascetic) Prasanna Devi “is in a critical condition,” Carmelite Father Vincent Kannatt of the Junagadh parish in Rajkot whereContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Ranchi, Sept 18, 2020: Jesuit Father Erik Breye, a seminary professor, retreat preacher and a confessor and counselor for seminarians and nuns, died of cardiac arrest September 18 in Ranchi, capital of Jharkhand state in eastern India. He was 79. “Bishops, Religious Sisters and fathers andContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kottayam, Sept 14, 2020: A court in Kerala, southern India, September 16 began the trial of the nun-rape case after restraining the print and electronic media from publishing matters related to the in-camera proceedings. Bishop Franco Mulakkal of Jalandhar is accused of raping the nun multipleContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Patna, Sept 14, 2020: A massive foreign direct investment is coming to India in the near future and only those who can handle technology will benefit, a technology expert predicted at a webinar organized by a Jesuit college in Patna, Bihar. “Every job now having aContinue Reading
By Sujata Jena Bhubaneswar, Sept 13, 2020: Kandhamal never again, never anywhere, asserted a webinar organized by the National Solidarity Forum (NSF) amid rising hate crimes in India. Kandhamal, a district in the eastern Indians state of Odisha, in 2008 witnessed unprecedented anti-Christian violence that claimed more than 100 livesContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Dhaka, Sept 12, 2020: Holy Cross Father Richard William Timm, a Magsaysay Award winner who contributed greatly to the reconstruction of newly created Bangladesh, died on September 11 in the United States. He was 97. The “Father of NGOs in Bangladesh” passed away at the HolyContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, Sept 11, 2020: Church groups in India on September 11 joined activists, academics and politicians to mourn the death of Swami Agnivesh, who is considered the country’s most renowned secular and democratic sanyasi. The once professor of Kolkata’s St Xavier’s College was 80 atContinue Reading
By Frida Toppo Bishnupur, Sept 9, 2020: A pioneering Jesuit missionary who had worked for four decades in northeastern India has died. Father Jayant Kumar Padival died around 10 pm on September 8 in Father Muller Hospital, Mangaluru, a port town in the southern Indian state of Karnataka. He wasContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, Sept 7, 2020: Apostolic Nuncio to Japan Archbishop Joseph Chennoth, an Indian, died September 7 in Tokyo following a heart attack. He was 76. The death occurred at 1:30 pm Japan time (8 am Indian time). The Syro-Malabar prelate from Kerala, southern India, wasContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kozhikode, Sept 6, 2020: Bishop Paul Chittilapilly, the first prelate of a Syro-Malabar diocese Pope Paul II created 33 years ago to resolve the rite rivalry in the Indian Church, died September 6. He was 86. Bishop Chittilapilly, who had served as the bishop of KalyanContinue Reading
