By Matters India Reporter Tellicherry, June 16, 2025: Archbishop Joseph Pamplany of Tellicherry has suspended a priest accused of sexually assaulting a minor boy. In his June 8 order, the archbishop removed with immediate effect Father Paul Thattuparambil from the post of the vicar of St. Pauls’ Church Athirumavu inContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, June 12, 2025: The Catholic bishops of India on June 12 joined world leaders to express “deep grief and profound sorrow” over the crash of an Air India plane earlier in the day. The plane bound for London crashed immediately after take off fromContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, June 7, 2025: Pope Leo XIV on June 7 appointed Father Jose Sebastian Thekkumcherikunnel as the new bishop of Jalandhar, the Conference of Catholic Bishops of India reports. The announcement of the appointment was made at 12 noon in Rome and its corresponding timeContinue Reading
By Jose Kavi Vilakkannur, May 31, 2025: Apostolic nuncio to India and Nepal Archbishop Leopoldo Girelli on May 31 called on the Syro-Malabar Church to view India’s first Eucharistic miracle as a signal to overcome its internal disputes and foster unity. “How can one ignore the tensions that still divideContinue Reading
By Purushottam Nayak Gudrikia, May 27, 2025: Archbishop John Barwa of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar has blessed a church built at the site where a Protestant Christian was burnt alive during the 2008 anti-Christian violence. “The perpetrators of violence had planned to eliminate Christians from this region, but they have failed in frontContinue Reading
By George Kommattam Calicut, May 26, 2025: More than 10,000 people braved heavy rains to attend a ceremony to elevate Calicut diocese as a metropolitan archdiocese and its bishop as its first metropolitan archbishop. Apostolic Nuncio to India and Nepal Archbishop Leopoldo Girelli led the May 25 ceremonies at St.Continue Reading
By Jose Kavi Kannur, May 16, 2026: The head of the Syro-Malabar Church on May 16 expressed concern over increasing wildlife attacks in the southern Indian state of Kerala and urged authorities to provide security to people living along forest borders. Major Archbishop Raphael Thattil was mourning Gafoor Ali, aContinue Reading
By Felix Anthony Miao, May 16, 2025: The women’s wing of Miao diocese in northeastern India organized a two-day convention to launch its nearly decade-long spiritual and pastoral journey towards the Great Jubilee 2033. More than 550 delegates from eight districts of Eastern Arunachal Pradesh attended the May 12-13 programContinue Reading
By Thomas Scaria Mangaluru, May 14, 2025: A priest of the archdiocese of Trichur in Kerala was on May 14 found hanging from a ceiling fan in his room in the presbytery. Father Leo Puthoor was the parish priest of St Joseph’s Church, Pathiyaram, in Thrissur district in the southernContinue Reading
By Lissy Maruthanakuzhy Pravithanam, May 11, 2025: Archbishop Emeritus Thomas Menamparampil of Guwahati, a Salesian missionary for 75 years in northeastern India, has warned the Indian Church that it could face the fate of its European counterpart unless it fights internal conflicts and indifference to people’s voices. “Thousands of missionariesContinue Reading
